Sorry you haven’t heard from me for a while. We are entering our sixth week of lockdown here in Greater Sydney and Wollongong and, like a lot of working parents, I am struggling to keep my head above water. I know I’m not the only one. Lately I have heard from clients who are putting […] Read more…
What’s the number one skills you’ve got to cultivate if you’re going to do well in your career? It’s not interviewing well It’s not writing a killer resume It’s not being able to negotiate a pay increase Although all of those things are important … It’s doing what I’m doing in the picture. It’s self-reflection. […] Read more…
Disclaimer: this article is a flagrant piece of self-promotion but I am really passionate about the results that you can get from coaching. If you are determined to change your life and career for the better in 2021 then read on or to get straight down to business book in with me for a FREE […] Read more…
… and how that’s changed now that I am one If you’d have asked me 10 years ago, I would never have dreamed that one day I would be a business owner. I was a company woman. I believed in earning a good salary, working hard (but not too hard), climbing the ranks and having […] Read more…
I officially launched my career coaching business two years ago today, on my 39th birthday. I say “officially” because I’d actually been coaching for ages. I did my coaching certification in 2016 and I’d been coaching clients for free whilst slowly building up my website and doing all the other things that I thought you […] Read more…
As a career coach and consultant, I read a lot of resumes and there are some common mistakes I see again and again. I get this. Resumes are difficult to write as most people find it hard to sell themselves on paper. It also feels like a mammoth task because we tend to update our […] Read more…
Confession I started writing this blog post about six weeks ago. Australia was coming out of lockdown. The kids were happily settled back at school and I was starting to get enquiries about my career coaching services again after a short lull. There was a sense of relief and optimism in my neck of the […] Read more…
Life is too short. It’s a cliché but its true. And I am a big believer that life is too short to be miserable at work. But growing up, and starting my career, I was exposed to other beliefs about life and work such as: “work hard at school, get a good job, and work […] Read more…
Today I celebrate two big milestones – my 40th birthday and officially being in business for one year. Last year I set myself a challenge to launch my website and blog on my 39th birthday and I met it with gusto. This year my challenge was pretty much to stay afloat and make it to […] Read more…
As I write this, I’ve just come back from doing reading groups in my son’s kinder class. This was a first for me, as I usually give any spare, kid-free, time available to growing my business or studying for my graduate certificate in Careers Education and Development. However, I’ve been suffering mummy guilt big time […] Read more…