Too many hires don’t work out At a recent talk I gave to HR Directors about unconscious bias in recruitment, the overwhelming consensus was that far too many new hires don’t work out. If that doesn’t surprise you, you’ve probably been stung in the past. So what can we do to get it right first…
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So many of my clients can recall times when they had to manage a difficult or unpleasant situation at work – like making a person redundant, or taking them through a disciplinary procedure – and the wheels came off, despite their best efforts. Has this happened to you? If you wished you’d had some strategies…
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A career crisis – like losing our job or being treated unfairly at work – can trigger a storm of negative emotions that batter our self-worth and wreck our work identity. It’s perfectly normal to feel these emotions at difficult times in our work lives. But if we don’t let go of them, they can…
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A key part of successfully managing your career is building good relationships with others – which is why developing effective communication skills is so crucial.
If you really want to start managing your own career, rather than sitting on the sidelines, the most obvious thing to do is to have a word with your boss.
How to tap into the power of words and language (the LAB Profile) in order to streamline and increase the success rates of recruiting and retaining.
When you think of a job advert, it’s usually skills based. Only a small section of the usual job advert is given to describing a candidate’s attitude or approach to work. Yet this is usually the most important part of hiring!
Career profiling with the LAB Profile unlocked the power of communication for this client.
Career Ambitions offers a profiling system as part of our career management coaching called the Language and Behavioural (LAB) Profile.
It seems as though every month there’s a new approach to recruiting. The beer test, video interviews, assignments… candidates never know what to expect. These various approaches are often driven by recruiting managers to find the people they need – but leave everyone else in the process confused and unsure in which direction to go……
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