Career EQ

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 motivators. Some common signs though can forecast that it is time for a change.

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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 things need to take priority, and career goals need to tread water for a bit.  However when there’s choice, why not make one?

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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 attention you may start to feel like a paranoid freak. On the other hand workplace psychopaths with milder forms of psychopathic behaviours could be useful if managed properly by organisations. …read more

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 interview process. Also popular is the “assessment centre” approach which is very often used during large-scale hiring by the public sector, by airlines and by the banking and finance industry.

This week a client asked me to coach her specifically in passing a “Case Study” interview, and while this is not entirely new, it is becoming more common to not only go through the ‘behaviour’ interview but to also pass a ‘Case Study’ interview …read more

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 really thought about what I wanted to do”

are comments I frequently hear.

Intelligent Career Management, the theme of this blog, is about being the pilot of your career rather than a passenger. In this Part II of the “This is not my Beautiful Job” post we explore the core and crucial step of making the shift from passenger to pilot. …read more