http://careereq.com Intelligent Career Management Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:41:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en By Dr Alicia Karwat, KeySteps Pty. Ltd. I have just come across interesting information about a University of Adelaide study currently recruiting managers and bosses to talk about their experiences if they have been accused of workplace bullying. The researcher asks a question “Office bully or workplace victim?” and provides some ... http://careereq.com/articles/career-management/workplace-psychopats-revisited-who-is-bullying-whom/ By Dr Alicia Karwat, KeySteps Pty. Ltd. Skill Shortage – What skill shortage? What does it mean to be career resilient? Media would like us to believe that our labour market experiences skill shortage. This is true in some sectors, such as mining, engineering and trades; however, in fact most other sectors experience a ... http://careereq.com/articles/career-management/mastering-resilient-career/ By Jane Lowder, Max Coaching When things are tense at work, it can feel just like being in a relationship that has gone pear-shaped. What do you do? Do you walk - or run - away? Sometimes this is the right thing to do, as outlined in Alicia's ... http://careereq.com/articles/career-management/before-you-walk-away/ Written by Heidi Winney, Strategic Career Development When coaching a female executive recently, the issue of “who do I need to be in order to succeed to a more senior role in the corporate environment…” played a prominent role in Jenny’s (not her real name) coaching assignment. This brought to mind the ... http://careereq.com/articles/uncategorized/career-management-issues-for-female-executives/ By Dr Alicia Karwat, KeySteps Pty. Ltd. Apparently how you are dealing with adversity can tell a lot about how successful you are and will be in your life. Good news is that it can be measured and changed with a combination of self-awareness, discipline, focus and practice. http://careereq.com/articles/emotional-intelligence/how-do-you-deal-with-adversity/ By Mary Grech, Career Development Consultant, Careers By Design (Aust) P/L, Melbourne For most of us happiness is not driven by how much we earn, a short commute to work or proximity to cheap sushi at lunchtime. It goes far deeper and is a bit harder to access our true ... http://careereq.com/articles/career-management/time-for-a-career-change/ It's subtle and sneaky.  It creeps up on you slowly so that you don't even notice it's happening.  Somehow over the years, you've gone from having a plan for your career, to just turning up to work and ticking the boxes.It's undeniable there can be seasons in life where other ... http://careereq.com/articles/career-management/beware-of-cumulative-career-inertia/ By Dr Alicia Karwat, KeySteps Pty. Ltd. Workplace psychopaths, some estimate that there are about 3% of them in the workplace, and some say that their number is on a raise, but if it is the first time you are working with one and if you are a target of their ... http://careereq.com/articles/career-management/workplace-psychopaths-how-to-deal-with-them/ Written by Heidi Winney, Strategic Career Development First we had the ‘traditional’ interview – now well and truly out of fashion. Then, in the early 90s the “behavioural” interview arrived and slowly gathered speed and took hold – to the extent that there is almost no “traditional” style used during the ... http://careereq.com/articles/interviews/case-study-interviews/ By Jane Lowder, Max Coaching So goes a quote by Diane Ackerman, prize winning author and poet. A lot of people tell me they feel that they are passengers in their own career. "I just fell into this" "This job came along and just carried me along with it" "I haven't ever ... http://careereq.com/articles/career-management/i-dont-want-to-be-a-passenger-in-my-own-life/