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Procrastination and anxiety - have you done it yet?

By Toby Buckle

Do you know you should be doing stuff to find a new career, but just don't seem to be able to get round to doing it? Then you've got a classic case of procrastination - common to any career shifter. Career coach, Toby Buckle, looks at what you can do both practically and in mind-set to get moving again. More

A faltering start to a new beginning

By Tony Li on 13 March 2007 at 23:42 in ShiftLogs

So there I was. Staring at a computer screen wondering what on earth I was doing there. Six weeks into a Graduate Trainee scheme and the job I thought would be the change I needed was anything but. Six weeks is not a long time, I know. But that moment has sparked off a change in my mental state which has given me a new found sense of hope for the future. More

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