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Identifying Your Strengths and Talents When Making a Career Change

By Nisa Chitakasem

If you’re to find a new career and job that’s right for you, you need to be aware of your strengths and talents. What would you actually be good at doing? Here are some tips for getting clear on this: More

Finding Your Best You

By Marianne Cantwell

Your strengths are all that count in the new world of dream careers. Weaknesses can always be compensated. Focus on the things you do exceptionally, and you will suddenly find your career change advancing in leaps and bounds. More

Did you know that work is supposed to be easy?

By Marianne Cantwell

The secret of the satisfied and successful is simple: the very best focus on their strengths and only ‘manage’ their weaknesses so these don’t hold them back. But they don’t ever allow themselves to be in an environment where their strengths don’t take centre stage. Why then do so many of us end up in jobs struggling to improve our weaknesses rather than playing to our strengths? Marianne Cantwell takes a closer look and reveals the mind-sets and bad habits we all get into as far back as school... More

The power of psychometric assessments - a key tool when changing career

By Selina Barker

Selina Barker takes a look at psychometric assessments and how they can make all the difference when you're changing career... More

Playing to your strengths

By Sonia Lakshman

When we do the work that is right for us it's effortless, natural, enjoyable and easy. The flipside of course (and possibly the reason you're reading this) is that when we're not - it's a struggle. We feel out of synch, constrained, unexpressed. We don't enjoy it. We know we're in the wrong spot. So what to do? More


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