For more career advice, visit the Career Energy homepage

We have just published the Career Energy Guide to the top 10 choices for Career Changers in  2010. I hope you will find it valuable. (more…)

The nature of our future working lives is becoming an increasingly important debate in modern society; changes to the way we work and how we manage our careers are likely to be defining characteristics of the 21^st century. But there are two, distinct pressures on the future of work and it is not at all clear which is going to win out. (more…)

Sometimes it pays to take a contrarian view, to look at things in the opposite way to the norm. So, whilst redundancy is an all consuming disaster on so many levels, it can also be an opportunity if acted upon in the right way. And treating redundancy as an opportunity can often resolve the situation and allow us to move our careers forward.

(more…)

Students graduating from university this year are likely to find it difficult to get a job. Not only is the general job market poor because of the recession but places on graduate schemes this year have been slashed. Of course they will get jobs in time, recessions do come to an end and this one is already showing tentative signs of recovery. But how should those appyling to university for the first time react to the slump in graduate jobs?

(more…)

I was asked to evaluate a new psychometric test yesterday. It was intended to predict which careers would be suitable for the person taking it. Now I cannot pretend to be a fan of psychometric testing, at least as far as career decisions go; I have never found it to be very accurate, the results tend to be general at best and inaccurate at worst. Nevertheless, I decided to give this one a go. I wish I hadn’t. (more…)

The debate over whether to bail out Jaguar raises old political questions. Interventionism versus Free Markets, Socialism versus Capitalism. But what seems to have been missed in the discussions is the question of personal choice. Should individuals be content to allow their working lives to be controlled by decisions made by their employers and by government. Or should they expect to be in control their own careers?

(more…)