When hiring, employers typically look for hard skills and soft skills. Hard skills are job specific; soft skills are general. They’re personality traits and interpersonal skills that directly affect your relationships with other people, like communication, teamwork and empathy.… Read More »Soft skills are hard work: Here’s how to improve yours
Dropping an F-Bomb and storming out; writing a full-length opinion piece in a national paper; hiring a brass band to accompany your exit – they’re all novel ways to quit a business and none of them are recommended. At some… Read More »How to leave a job in the best way possible
What’s the worst that could happen in a job interview? For a candidate, arriving late, being overcome with nerves or not preparing properly can all make the experience feel less-than-positive. For an interviewer, being faced with a completely unsuitable… Read More »The worst (real-life) interviews we’ve ever dealt with
What is flexible working? You might think the answer is obvious – employees working from home, the chance to choose working hours, perhaps even the offer of a career break for travelling. But there’s more to it than meets the… Read More »Flexible working – what is it and why should we be paying attention?
Ever had a colleague who you just clashed with? Try as you might, you simply can’t get to grips with their personality: They make decisions you don’t understand, they react in ways you wouldn’t dream of, or their personality plain… Read More »How to work with colleagues with a different personality profile