As we approached the summit, at 22, 209 feet, the cloud closed in and the view disappeared. As we stepped onto the top of the highest mountain in Peru, all we could see was the inside of a cloud.

It was the culmination of a four-week expedition to climb Huascaran.

Preparation had taken months and built on years of experience. Even on the...

It’s a question I often get asked and something I work on with all of my clients who are going to the job market.

For almost everyone, two A4 pages is what you are aiming for, using a clear typeface and avoiding things like boxes and shading if you are going to be applying online.

Your header information needs to make it clear who you are...

Last week I mentioned The Career Base Camp at the end of my blog. I’m going to give you some more information here and guidance on how you can become a Founder Member.

Even if it’s not the right time for you, it may be for your network so please do share and help create a world where everyone has the skills and confidence to define...

I was asked two great questions in The Career Café recently:

“Is it possible to change career after 20 years in the same job and organisation?”

“My contract is ending, how can I find another one in the next 30-45 days?”

My initial reaction was to think that these questions were quite dissimilar, but the more I...

I am an optimist by nature and I also believe that if you have a purpose, however big it is, you can achieve it. Especially if it’s a no-brainer and everybody wins; in other words, a systemic win (more of which later). I’ve got just such a thing to share with you.

I love that line in the film Shakespeare in Love where the owner of...

When we think about the future, we often think about goal setting, and most people do it at two times in their life: 

• New year when they feel almost obliged to set a resolution of some sort
• Performance appraisals

The first is rarely successful, New Year Resolutions. Most people do not follow through with their resolutions and the second,...

"You’ll never talk your way out of that one!"

I’m not sure where that phrase originated, but in your career, actually you usually can talk your way out of it. “It” being the career situation you find yourself stuck in that you want to change.  

Almost everyone I work with has a fear of selling themselves....