Read more about the article 030 My Career Journal 7 – Meeting with Silicon Valley
Episode 30 - My Career Journal 7 - A Meeting With Silicon Valley

030 My Career Journal 7 – Meeting with Silicon Valley

How do you pick a company? If you’re in your 30s or 40s this should be a lot clearer in theory right? You have the experience, and experience brings answers to questions like what values draw you in, and what attracts you to the particular role. Yet how do you know the company you are prospecting can really deliver on what you want? Answer? Your network.

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Read more about the article 028 My Career Journal pt 6 Negotiate or Wait?
My Career Journal Part 6 - Negotiate or Wait - Do What Matters - Career and Leadership on Purpose

028 My Career Journal pt 6 Negotiate or Wait?

How early in the process should you start negotiating? I’m beginning to learn that the answer is as late in the process as possible. There are many things to negotiate in today’s job market, and the time to start doing that depends almost wholly on the relationship you build with your future line manager. Don’t negotiate with HR. The HR process is designed to find red flags and eliminate them, whereas the relationship with your line manager will always be more nuanced. Let’s discuss HR Screening calls, and I’ll share my worst performance in an interview process with you.

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Read more about the article 026 My Career Journal Pt 5 Social Credible Responsible
My Career Journal - Do What Matters, Career and Leadership on Purpose

026 My Career Journal Pt 5 Social Credible Responsible

Social, credible and responsible. What have I got to offer the world, and how do I tie in my offer with all that I want to advocate for and to be, not just to do? Before the pandemic, and the massive mobilisation of finance around ESG topics, and George Floyd and the global focus on DEI that came from that, these 3 words, being social, credible and responsible, were not necessarily thought about in the same breath for small businesses, and for individuals. Career advice would centre around building a personal and or professional brand that stands out, based on what your recruiters are interested in. Today, Gen Z, and some of us in our 40s if I’m being honest are tearing up the rule book on tailoring our lives and CVs to be what companies want, and focusing more on what we want, then choosing the company that supports our interests most closely. Tune into this episode as we get into the personal and professional brand conversation, and how I’ve been experiencing this part of my career journey in the last few months.

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Read more about the article 024 My Career Journal 4 Addressing the Ego
My Career Journal Part 4 - Addressing the Ego

024 My Career Journal 4 Addressing the Ego

et out of your own way. There has been considerable research done on this idea of the ego; that sense of self esteem and self importance that our individualistic education has given us. I’ve found entrepreneurship to be the greatest challenge to an inflated ego I’ve ever encountered in my life; it has by force humbled me. I was only as good as my greatest weakness; until I started outsourcing my weaknesses.

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Read more about the article 018 My Career Journal Part 1 Making Sense of Change
My Career Journal - Making Sense of Change

018 My Career Journal Part 1 Making Sense of Change

What do you do when things aren’t quite going to plan, and you’ve run down your buffers to the point that something needs to give? You make a change. And that change has to be one that works for you. Tune into this episode where I share about the big secret that I’ve been keeping, and how it’s going to impact my work. Before we dive in, I want you to know this, change is good. Even when it’s hard. Motivation to take the first action is usually all it takes before you can start to see clarity in new perspectives.

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Read more about the article 002 The Purposeful Pivot
The Purposeful Pivot

002 The Purposeful Pivot

Don't ask what gives you purpose, ask what gives you energy. Listen to this clip from this fantastic recording I had with Shane Ward, agroecologist and founder of Action Ecology. My wife introduced me to this idea. She's an organisational psychologist by training, and has been working in basic development and all these other things, so she came home one day was talking about an exercise that she was involved with where people were asked to try and find one word that described what energised them and for some reason, this captured my thinking in a way that nothing quite like it ever had.

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