It's an exciting day! You’ve applied for a great job, interviewed, and now you've got a call to discuss the next steps - a job offer. That means negotiating your package. Are your palms getting sweaty, and your stomach churning over at the mere thought of it? Will you do it with confidence and success or blurt out an acceptance at the first offer they make? You wouldn’t be the only one sweating negotiations. A Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) survey, conducted in

Throughout our lives, we will all encounter challenges that will test our physical and mental well-being. 2020 and 2021 have certainly given us challenges that we have no option but to cope with – a pandemic, job losses, social isolation, social unrest, educational instability, and increased caring responsibilities. Although each of these events on their own can be challenging, put them all together in a short space of time and this is the perfect recipe for stress and emotio

Picture the scene. You get an email inviting you to attend an interview. Your initial reaction is delight. You’ve finally got a chance to meet a prospective employer and convince them you're the best person for the job. Once you’ve come to terms with the interview, what is the next thing you feel? Is it excitement? Is it dread? A mixture of both is most common. You’ll inevitably start visualizing yourself in the job and thinking ‘What if….?’ However, you still need to do a gr

The job-hunting process can sometimes feel like a full-time role in itself. It’s exhausting! I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase, ‘fail to prepare, prepare to fail’. It sounds a little harsh to me, but there is an element of truth in it. Being prepared in your job search will save you countless hours. Save yourself the agony of disorganization by getting your strategy in place before you start, saving you hours of brain fog. If you’ve been following the Prepare to Flourish serie