Friday on my mind: it’s that easy and that hard
Encountering road blocks throughout you career (however big or small) is as likely as the sun rising each morning. As a career coach I continue to be reminded by my clients [...]
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03, 2017
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10, 2015
Sorry! You’re over qualified for the position …
by Peter Luscombe Hearing such a statement would make you feel astonished, yes? The first time I was told this at the end of an interview virtually left me speechless. I [...]
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09, 2015
You’re Fired!
by Peter Luscombe Hearing those words would make many a heart sink. Fired, sacked, made redundant, let go, discharged, retrenched – no matter it is put - isn't what we want to hear [...]
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09, 2015
Putting a Positive Spin On
by Peter Luscombe The mind is everything. What you think you become. Buddha Many negative or adverse workplace situations can be spun around to the positive, if you have an [...]
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08, 2015
Resiliency means? Reside In Yourself?
by Peter Luscombe No matter how you define success, you will need to be resilient, empowered, authentic, and limber to get there. ― Joanie Connell, ‘Flying Without a Helicopter: How [...]
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08, 2015
Keeping your career on course
If you are one of those people who like the job you do, the organisation you work for and the people you work with, then you should be congratulated on managing your career well [...]
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07, 2015
Work Habits – Meeting deadly deadlines [Part 2]
This is the second in a two-part article by Career Actually contributor Peter Luscombe. Read Part 1 here. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. Japanese [...]
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07, 2015
Work Habits – Negativity negates you
by Peter Luscombe Having dealt with in this series the need to review work habits, and ways and means to make change, let’s now focus on negativity. A less-than-positive attitude [...]
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07, 2015
Work Habits – Meeting deadly deadlines [Part 1]
by Peter Luscombe Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.’ Tom Robbins, ‘Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas’ [...]
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06, 2015
Work habits – the cost of procrastination
by Peter Luscombe procrastinate (v.) from Latin procrastinatus, "to put off till tomorrow, defer, delay" Is procrastination a choice? A decision? Opinion varies about this. It certainly is a habit, [...]
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