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Job hunting used to be a much simpler affair. You would send your standard resume to a few recruitment agencies - one that specialised in your sector or to a recommended head-hunter and then sit back and wait for the calls. Today’s job market is far more proactive and...

As a leader, your responsibility has always been to keep your team safe, connected and productive. But when a global pandemic intervenes, how do you flex with it? What do you need to adapt about your leadership style to better support your people? In the last nine...

2020 will be remembered for only one thing. But this doesn’t mean pressing pause on your executive career, especially if you’re ready for a change. At times like these, stay future focused. Build your skills, harness the power (and rewards) of networking and boost...

There are many differences between an in-house legal role and working in private practice. For example, most lawyers find that in-house culture, communications and hierarchies tend to be less formal. You’ll probably also have fewer support staff. Another big shift in...

Use Google to search for the people in your team and see what you find. For most people, their LinkedIn profiles are likely to be at the top of the results page. On average, employees have a LinkedIn network that is 10 times larger than their corporation’s follower...

Earlier in the year, when ABTA published its annual Travel Trends Report, the outlook for the travel and tourism industry in 2020 was broadly positive. Despite modest economic growth and political uncertainties surrounding Brexit, as well as the sad demise of the...

In 1969, psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross wrote about the five stages of grief in her book “On Death and Dying.” Since then, the Kübler-Ross model has been applied in much wider contexts where change is imposed upon us - most recently, how people deal with (and...

Has lockdown inspired you to change your life and launch a new business or side hustle? A shocking 90% of start-ups fail and not having the right team in place is one of the biggest culprits. So, we were delighted to contribute to this ‘Five things to consider when...

McKinsey’s Diversity Matters report found “a statistically significant relationship between a more diverse leadership team and better financial performance”. The report went on to explain that more diverse companies have a competitive advantage because they are more...