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Being a mentor, finding a mentor : Naturejobs. Image credit: PhotoDisc/Getty Images Finding a good mentor is a crucial element of success.

Being a mentor, finding a mentor : Naturejobs

Being one can be extremely rewarding. Read our tips and useful resources to make the most of mentoring opportunities. Being an effective mentor As well as helping to nurture younger scientists, mentoring also serves the mentor's own interests: successful mentees can mean more publications, grants, collaborations and job opportunities for mentors down the line. Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success. The Work Foundation. How to Become a Life Coach. Author: Maggie Lonsdale BA (hons) - Updated: 8 August 2013| Comment Becoming a life coach is an increasingly popular choice for people making a career change.

How to Become a Life Coach

It’s a job that’s interesting, flexible, well paid and gives you the freedom to Work From Home. That also means, however, that the world and his wife are doing it, not to mention the large numbers of unscrupulous courses promising to ‘make you a life coach for just £500’ popping up all over the place! As an overview, a life coach is usually a self-employed person who works with a small number of individuals, helping them through challenging periods in their lives, either through face-to-face contact or telephone conversations. No Qualifications Required. The Bamboo Project Blog. Alan Weinkrantz has a series of interesting blog posts over at Chris Brogan's Owner Mag on the idea of the StartOver economy.

The Bamboo Project Blog

This is an economy where things are moving quickly and where yesterday's success is no guarantee that tomorrow will bring the same. This idea of the StartOver economy should resonate with all of us. Often the StartOver is a result of forces outside of our control--the impact of technology on our jobs or the unrelenting downsizing that is going on world-wide.

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How technology can boost your CV, covering letter and job search. Here are some tips on how technology can help your professional profile stand out.

How technology can boost your CV, covering letter and job search

Photograph: Jeffrey Hamilton/Getty Images The average employer looks at your CV for eight seconds; they've probably received anywhere from 20 – 200 CVs for the job you're applying to and are sick of reading covering letters and seeing the same structure in Times New Roman. This is your cue to give them something a little original and innovative. By embracing tools and technology, it is possible to make our professional profiles stand out. Here are some tips on how you can do this cheaply but still get optimum results. Careers resources. We produce careers resources for schools, colleges and higher educational institutions.

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For more information subscribe to our free Careers Information Update. Your journey into psychology Our careers booklet gives you an overview of psychology careers. Download the booklet. How to Avoid Work: A 1949 Guide to Doing What You Love. By Maria Popova “Life really begins when you have discovered that you can do anything you want.” “There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like,” Anaïs Nin wrote in her diary in 1941. Indeed, finding a sense of purpose and doing what makes the heart sing is one of the greatest human aspirations — and yet too many people remain caught in the hamster wheel of unfulfilling work.

In 1949, career counselor William J. Finding the Job of Your Life - Gianpiero Petriglieri. Let’s face it.

Finding the Job of Your Life - Gianpiero Petriglieri

We all think about it. At times we think of little else — even if only rarely and in certain settings do we feel free to admit it. The conversation often begins furtively, the question murmured as if slightly shameful or out of place. How can I get more of it at work? Meaning, that is. Meaning at work, in work, from work. It may be because we are freer. It may be because we are too focused or not focused enough. How to chart a successful research career. The New Trade. Gifted: Career Advice for Geniuses.

By Marty Nemko, originally published in US News and World Report You'd think that the supersmart have it made.

Gifted: Career Advice for Geniuses

Not so. Being highly intelligent comes with surprising workplace burdens, as I've learned during 20 years as a career coach specializing in intellectually gifted adults. Here are suggestions I've made that clients have found most helpful: Confirm your capability. Want to take an intelligence test? Embrace your ability.. Use your intelligence well. Find kindred spirits. Consider avocations likely to attract smart people book clubs, Mensa, groups that play intellectual games, for example, chess clubs, etc. Trust yourself more than experts. You can afford to be a dabbler. If you're self-motivated, avoid school. Work with people whose minds match yours. If you already work at a stifling job, but aren't ready to leave, try to brand yourself as The Brain while allowing others to save face. Consider self-employment. Resist calls for balance. Don't expect to be a genius all the time.

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Personal knowledge management. Directgov jobs and skills search - Voluntary work details. Job Satisfaction. Plan early on in your postgrad degree for later career success. If you are studying a postgraduate course because it is of interest to you but not related to a specific job then you need to consider what you might do at the end of it - right at the beginning of the course.

Plan early on in your postgrad degree for later career success

And it's still essential to plan for your next move if you are studying for a vocational postgrad degree of a vocational nature, such as quantity surveying. If you want to get a quality job at the end of your postgraduate course, you need to spend quality time career planning. Remember, remember: application dates for big employer graduate schemes If you are thinking of applying for one of the big employer graduate schemes, check the application dates at the start of the final year of your postgrad course (or as you start if it is a one-year course).

Applications for internships or graduate training programmes the following summer may well have to be in as early as November. England - London Graduate Jobs & Internships. Arrange by: Please select an option Show: 25 of results Graduate job Public Sector England-London Consultancy, IT,… Ongoing £25366.

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