Career Compass

20/12/2024

06/11/2024

💥 Hello there! It's time for new beginnings!

I've started a new business adventure helping people to design an intentional life filled with health and happiness.

To ensure our products and services truly resonate, we’re conducting customer and market research. Your insights would be invaluable!

Could you please take a few minutes to complete this short survey, https://tripetto.app/run/YJECP98RSK

Let's shape the future of wellness together!
Many thanks, Elaine

29/02/2024

The STAR interview framework is not new, it’s actually as old as Generation X!

It gained prominence in the 1980s and 1990s. But like Gen X, it still has a lot to offer!

I use it all the time to help my clients prepare powerful responses for interview questions.

My spin? Ensure your STAR has a good story – a STARRY, if you will!

What you’ll need:
🔔 Situation: Create a good hook to draw in the interview panel. Start with a fact, or an interesting dimension to your example that will surprise, entertain or compel them. You want the interviewers to lean in here.

🔔 Task: Present your evidence here as the problem that needed resolution. What was at stake here? All employers want their staff to predict/prevent/solve problems. Here’s your chance to show it in your example.

🔔 Action: Give context to your actions. Explain your thinking, highlight your lateral or logical thinking skills here. Demonstrate your strong interpersonal skills by involving the right people at the right time.

🔔 Results: Now it’s your time to finish with an impactful close. Focus on tangible results, significant improvements in processes, relationships, or the bottom line. Some powerful statistics are great here too.

🔔 Self-Appraisal: Always prepare for the ‘if you could do anything differently, what would it be’ question. This ensures you’ve reflected on your behaviour, skills and weaknesses and are committed to your development. This shows the interview panel that you can give and receive constructive feedback.

If you need help to brush up your interview examples, DM me and I can give you another tip or two!

07/02/2024

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.”— Brené Brown

Now there’s a challenge from Ms. Brown!

❓ How many times have we dis-owned our story?
❓ Tried to eliminate or forget the key learning moments in our lives. The times we weren’t at our best, or we let ourselves down?

Not anymore! This February let’s practice some self-love?

Ok, that’s a bit woolly – what does that actually mean?

From a career’s perspective, here are some ideas:

✅ Accept that you have worth. You are enough – just as you are. I’ll say that again just in case you didn’t hear me in the back. “You are enough – just as you are”. In work you deserve to feel respected.
✅ Accept you won’t be everyone’s cup of tea – that’s fine. In work, try not to turn yourself inside out in order to fit in. Is it okay to be yourself? Do you feel psychologically safe?
✅ Accept that it is your response-ability to prioritise your wellbeing. Not your parents or your partners or your boss. In work, find sustainable ways to manage your workload and work/life balance. Negotiate this and maintain boundaries.

🥁 Be brave, own your story, and if you feel it’s time to move on from a toxic workplace….get in touch via DM!

11/01/2024

CAO Online Info Evening for students and parents.
17 January 6pm

15/11/2023

Career Goals 2024: make them HARD!