George Clooney’s character in the film Up in the Air describes his job as being “hired by cowards who don’t have the guts to do their own dirty work”. Photograph: Tal Cohen/EPA It is not easy to tell someone their job is gone, but it can be done fairly and with [...]
IT’S A FRUSTRATING time when you realise your current career isn’t turning out to be what you want it to be, and what you had hoped it would be. You’re in a situation where you can feel stuck because you can’t see another option, and you have to keep working because you have commitments, a [...]
IN MEETING WITH candidates in the 40s and older, who are now trying to get their career back on track following a redundancy, I’ve noticed a reluctance and difficulty in talking about the redundancy – it’s almost as if it’s shameful to talk about! For those of us that that went through education in the [...]
“I’VE SENT OUT hundreds of CVs but I never got a response, not even a thank you or acknowledgement”. This is what I hear from candidates all the time. They feel frustrated. They look for reasons why this happens – sometimes we seek to blame both ourselves and others. “I’m the wrong side of 50…” [...]
