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Why You Need To Break Up With Your Career
Breakups suck, there’s no denying it; whether you’ve been dumped, or have to end things when it just isn’t working out. But I’m here to tell you that as brutal as it can be, getting out of a bad relationship will always be worth your while. Despite all the tears and...
Don’t Stop Me Now: Career Advice from Freddie Mercury and Queen
Ok, so maybe the advice is not straight from the man himself, but as I sat watching Bohemian Rhapsody over the Christmas break, all I could think about was the uncanny similarities between mine and Freddie Mercury's career. Here's what I have learnt: Start small,...
Your Life is a Mess but You’re Not a Failure
It’s the last day of the first week of January, and chance are those New Year’s resolutions are starting to wear a little thin. But even if it looks like your life is turning into a bit of a mess and everything’s feeling a bit too hectic, that doesn’t mean you’re...
How a Hobby Can Increase Your Hustle!
When I was a university student, I had a drab outlook on how I spent my time. I spent too long ‘studying’ ineffectively (refreshing Facebook … re-reading the same paragraph of my textbook … reloading Instagram), and when I wasn’t studying I would complain about how...
3 Resolutions to Make if You Want to Start Getting Ahead in the New Year
It’s New Year’s Eve, and as we say goodbye to 2018 it’s time to prepare for the annual announcements of #newyearnewme that are due to flood Instagram feeds, alongside the pressure to make wild pronouncements of how you’ll finally turn your life around in 2019. But, as...
4 Tips from a Professional Time-Juggler
Over the last year I’ve gone from working full-time at Careers, to having a baby and working as a full-time mom and, more recently, returning to work and trying to juggle everything in-between. Whether you are a uni student, parent, full-time worker, part-time worker,...
4 Easy Ways to Boost Your Career from the Beach
It can be hard to get motivated to start working on your career skills when the sun is shining down outside and the beach is calling your name. But lucky for you, using your summer to work on your employability doesn’t have to be as difficult as you might think – and...
Make 2019 Your Career Year
We’ve all been there: starting the New Year bright-eyed and on a mission to get fit and eat healthier. But by mid-February, you’ve found yourself parked on the couch, three hours deep into a Netflix binge session with a family-size bag of chips in hand. Or perhaps you...
The Best Gift You Can Give Your Career This Christmas
Tis the season of giving, so why not take the opportunity to give something back to your career this Christmas? Ensuring your career is healthy and successful takes more than just skill building, experience, and hard work. It also means looking after your mental...
The ‘Know’s of Job Hunting
Job hunting. It’s not an activity that many take up as recreation. In fact, say the words and you’re met with scrunched noses and silent cringes. While it’s never going to take out #1 spot in the Top 5 Ultimate Fun Things To Do, it doesn’t have to be painful. ...
5 Reasons Christmas is a Great Time for a Job Search
It may not feel like it, but the end of the year is actually a great time to start looking for a job. Whether it’s a change in career, a chance to gain new experience, or taking your first foray into the working world, December is a good time to get stuck in and...
Fantastic Truths (About Fulfilment) and Where to Find Them
The new Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald film has taken the magical world by storm, so of course, we couldn’t help but pull some valuable lessons from it! For a franchise that is so baffling in its complexity, you’d be surprised that there are some vital...
Career Success: It’s All Down to Timing
Last week Caitlin Kunkel (@KunkelTron) posted a Twitter thread that populated the trending page for its fifteen minutes of fame. In it, she told the story of how she started her career at 22, looking at graduate schools for writing while she was teaching English in...
Key Ingredient in Maximising Your Productivity
Productivity in the workplace is extremely important. The quantity and quality of our contribution to the organisations we work for, the companies we run, and/or the clients we do business with, are two of the most important factors in establishing career success....
Julia Landauer: Don’t Let Expectations and Stereotypes Hold You Back
It can be easy to fall into a career that everyone expects you to follow, but that doesn’t necessarily make for a fulfilling work life. Opportunity and passion can come from the most unexpected places, and while the pursuit may be difficult, following what makes you...
How Mentorship Can Fuel Your Career Journey
Career journeys: we’ve all heard about our career journeys or pathways, but the reality is we don’t normally realise when we’re actually on one until we spend the time thinking back on how we got to where we are. For me, I’ve come to realise that I wouldn’t be where I...
Stan Lee: How Hard Work and Passion Can Make You a Cultural Icon
Renowned for the contributions he made to the world of comics and his many cameos in the popular Marvel movie franchises in his later years of life, Stan Lee’s passing last week left many around the world reeling.The early daysBorn in December 1922 as Stan Lieber, he...
UX and Your Online Presence: 3 Strategies for Digital Success
User experience (UX) is a multidisciplinary concept that often refers to web, but more expansively can refer to any human focused strategy that shapes pleasurable journeys between product and user.Consider yourself as your main product and your industry as your user....