Your notice period is a strange and strenuous time for both you and your colleagues. We’ve put together a few tips to help you navigate through this emotional roller coaster, so that you can hand in your notice properly and walk into your next role...
It's no secret that school never really prepares you for the world of work and for those of us who get older, it's something we forget and take for granted. As I meet a lot of school-leavers and graduates looking to take their first step...
Building a successful career can often come with quite a high degree of pressure; finding the right job, thriving and growing your skillset. But with so much expectation around sticking in the right job so your CV doesn't become a spaghetti junction, is quite a...
Being micromanaged is an unfortunate working situation that can sometimes be harder to spot and certainly harder to fix. It can make your job more difficult, can make you feel untrusted and it can stifle your creativity. Understand failings and mitigate them Can you see where there...
For the majority of us, our daily working lives go on within their allocated hours and, come the end of our working day, we can switch off, feet up and (for some and family commitments willing) get some "me time". However, there are many occasions where...
More and more companies are seeing the value in investing in their staff’s education and skills, whether through professional qualifications, short courses or seminars. It’s undoubtedly a worthwhile investment, as the famous quote perfectly puts it; “What if I train them and they leave? But...
Take this scenario, it’s been a few years at your current job and deep down you know it’s time to move on, like any big change in life, it’s never without its stressful moments; searching, interviews, negotiating, rejections, not hearing back, chasing, that nerve-wracking first...
You may have seen in the news recently, that an acclaimed director was fired over inappropriate tweets that were published almost a decade ago - which begs the question, could your social media activity cost you your job? The short answer is yes, a lot of...
With the new GDPR regulations, only days away and the instruction of revised Data Protection Laws in both Guernsey and Jersey, magazines and papers are awash with quick guides on how to get your business compliant. But, as the new laws pertain to how your personal...