[Image courtesy of Ky at Flickr Creative Commons] “You’re a very good listener,” said somebody to me once at a networking event.  Not really, I thought mischievously. I’m just too polite to interrupt. And without so much as a pause […]

I was chatting a few months back with a recruiter chum of mine. He was complaining that an ex-colleague of his (they both subsequently set up on their own) has a much higher interview hit rate after sending a CV. […]

Just the other day, I noticed something odd at my gym: a large, rectangular piece of white card, with the centre cut out. It was placed on the wall-to-wall mirrors by the stretching mats.  It looked like a frame – […]

[Image courtesy of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center at Flickr Creative Commons] Do you ever get the feeling of déjà vu when you’re watching the news? Don’t we all.  This week, hurricane Maria is sweeping through the Caribbean, wreaking havoc […]

If you’ve ever felt frazzled by the pace of modern life, it may well be the fault of technology. What was supposed to set us free – work anywhere, any time from any device – seems to have slowly pulled […]