Have you been offered a promotion? Is it taking you out of your technical area into leadership management? ......not so fast..... Have you actually considered what this means and looks like? You have fantastic technical skills, you’re the number one worker in your team or group and you’ve been offered the role of supervisor, team [...]
We’re over in Queenstown at the moment doing some skiing and snowboarding. We were up on the slopes yesterday and started chatting to an elderly gentleman, as it turns out, at 78, he had only learned to ski 20 years ago and his sons, who are now in their 50’s, have just started to learn [...]
At Career Life Transitions we are constantly in conversation with people searching for work and people searching for people who want work. Of late there are a number of interesting trends we’ve noticed and one is the change in the nature of the working structure. Baby boomers are now moving into retirement and while they [...]
Are you over 50 and looking for work? I don’t know that people over 50 are anymore likely to lose their jobs than any other age group in the workforce, but the more immediate challenge for them is, how can I get another one? Well, maybe this is the best career opportunity you’ve had since [...]
The age old question, am I being passively discriminated against because of my age? Well the answer is yes and no. For some people it will be an issue, for other people it isn’t. I can build a case either way. I think at some stage we have all felt we have been discriminated against [...]
Did you know that roughly 75% of employers will choose an outside candidate over an internal candidate for a role? There's a plethora of research on this topic including its advantages and disadvantages. When there is known history and personalities involved, the ‘grass is always greener’ syndrome seems to kick in. However, in the business [...]
We are now well and truly living in a world where technology has helped facilitate a platform for our personal presence to be available across the globe. So it's now more imperative than ever to ensure we are portraying ourselves in a positive light from every aspect, digitally speaking. If we're thinking of our career, [...]
The last couple of years have been pretty tough from a career point of view, if you had a job, you tried to keep it, regardless of whether you truly liked it or not. For many people they had no choice, redundancies were ramped up as companies scrambled to cut costs. This period followed the [...]
If changing careers was one of your New Year’s resolutions, you’re not alone with a recent survey finding one in three Australian workers are looking for a new job. Career coach Peter James from Career Life Transitions said at this time of year many people think more carefully about their career because they find themselves [...]
We're fast approaching the end of the year, and the beginning of 2018. New Years resolutions are prevalent, along with hopes of a successful and prosperous year ahead. People often contemplate if they really are happy in their current career, and whether a change of career could equal more fulfillment, where the grass is greener [...]
Dr Susan Roberts says: