by Anne Wilson | Jul 8, 2024 | Career Toolkit
How many hours of your life have been lost to badly run online meetings? I’m sure most of you have plenty of examples where, like me, your attention has wandered and you’ve taken a sneaky peak at your e-mails. The catchphrase “you’re on...
by Anne Wilson | May 13, 2024 | Career Toolkit
I’ve just had a staycation. Every year I like to take a week off to focus on the things I want and need to do. Let’s call it personal and professional housekeeping. I find creating some kind of order from chaos at home makes me feel I have some degree of...
by Anne Wilson | Apr 14, 2024 | Career Toolkit
There are a number of steps you can take to ensure you prepare well for interview questions. In a previous post I shared some preparation tips. In this post I’ll focus on how to prepare for questions where the interview panel want to get to know you. After all,...
by Anne Wilson | Mar 25, 2024 | Career Toolkit
How is your CV looking? If you’ve not applied for a job for some time, the chances are it will at best be in need of an update. At worst, perhaps a complete overhaul. I’ve spent many years working in careers, helping students improve their CVs and as a...
by Anne Wilson | Mar 18, 2024 | Career Toolkit
Sometimes reading about a particular subject in one book piques my curiosity. I’m then drawn to read about that subject in more depth. This happened to me recently. At Christmas I was gifted a copy of Julia Bradbury’s book ‘Walk Yourself...
by Anne Wilson | Mar 11, 2024 | Career Toolkit
This week, a tongue-in-cheek way to make dull meetings just a touch more bearable. I had forgotten until recently just how much jargon the Higher Education sector is riddled with. It took the dreaded words ‘Professional Services Review’ to unleash the...
