Perspectives.
Because how you see your career shapes everything about how you build it.
Leaving well, when you chose to go…
When you're pulled towards a role you wanted, you're supposed to be delighted, so the harder feelings about leaving tend to get filed away. Here's how to leave well when you're the one who chose to go.
Your internal move and your external move are not the same search
An internal move and an external move are fundamentally different exercises. They need different evidence, different visibility, and often, a genuinely different motivation underneath them.
Is the cover letter truly dead?
More and more people tell me nobody bothers with cover letters any more. Where one is asked for, though, it still gets read, and it remains one of the few places you can properly stand out.
You have plenty of mentors, that might be the problem
Name everyone genuinely in your corner right now. For most people, the list is mostly mentors. That's not wrong, it's just incomplete, and the gap is usually where careers quietly stall.
Reinventing in quiet moments
No one reinvents themselves in a vacuum. I learned that watching my household go through two reinventions in two years, and it turns out the hardest part isn't the change itself, it's working out whose turn it is to go first.
Your CV was never going to tell your story
Picture the person reading your CV after their hundredth one that day. "Strategic leader with a track record of driving growth" stopped registering somewhere around CV number eleven. Here's where your actual story needs to live instead.
Is your job search strategy just noise?
A client showed me a spreadsheet of forty-one job applications, beautifully colour-coded. Three interviews. No offers. The problem wasn't the effort. It was that nobody had asked what she was actually optimising for.
Career inflection point… or just a bad week?
A bad day asks you to get through it. An inflection point is asking you to notice it. Here’s how to tell which one you’re actually having.
What Career Coaching Actually Does (and why it’s worth it)
What career career coaching is all about…
