How to portray your leadership and management skills
Q: The interview panel asked me if I knew the difference between leadership and management. It completely threw me. I’ve […]
Job interview – put yourself at the heart of your answers
Q: In the job interview, I felt I gave a good account of how things operate in my department. I […]
Career path – tapping into old skills
Q: I’m traveling down an old road, back to direct sales, where my career path started 20 years ago. In […]
How to maintain focus as a job interview approaches
Q: I applied for the job yesterday, they rang first thing this morning and want to interview me on Friday. […]
How to avoid getting pipped at the post
Q: I’m in an unusual position. A job has come up in the place where I’ve been freelancing / working […]
How to make your career history work with – not against – you
Q: I’ve got past the first two interviews for a major post I am chasing in a new company, and […]
I chanced my arm – and got caught
Q: I was poorly prepared for the interview. I chanced my arm. I hadn’t practiced my answers, and I got […]
How to make your ‘dream job’ work for you
Q: I am going for an interview in a company next week. A friend of mine went for an interview […]
Stressful situations at work, how I learned from the tough days
Q: I was surprised when one of the interviewers asked me how I handled stressful situations at work. I tried […]
How to show you’ve learned from the bad day in your career
Q: In the interview, they asked me to outline a scenario where I had a problem in my workplace. I […]