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    11 Things to Know About Starting a New Job
    12Feb

    11 Things to Know About Starting a New Job
    The Chartered
    career, unemployment, university
    Work
    Starting a new job is an exciting but testing time when you will face many new challenges. While you may be justifiably proud of yourself for having completed the application process successfully and secured the position you wanted, this is not a time to rest on your laurels. Thinking about how you will approach the first few days and weeks in your new job and planning ahead for any potential issues you will face will help you to: reduce your stress levels become productive more quickly be accepted by new colleagues more quickly prepare for the cultural...
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    Doctors Dissected: What are Doctors really Thinking?
    06Feb

    Doctors Dissected: What are Doctors really Thinking?
    Camilla Nicholls
    books
    Work
    As I sat down to write about the relationship I have with ‘my GP’ I realised I couldn’t. Last summer I had cause to visit a general practitioner several times, I am asthmatic and although my condition is manageable day-to-day sometimes I need additional care. I saw three different doctors in the space of six weeks. One was a locum covering for holidays the other two were regulars at the surgery.  All were professional, helpful, concerned. But they, like their approaches, were all different and that was just over one short season. Even if we live in the...
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    How to Embrace Mindfulness at Work
    05Feb

    How to Embrace Mindfulness at Work
    Louise Chunn
    mindfulness
    Work
    Is it possible to synchronise the world of work – all cut-throat competition, profit margins, productivity and cold, hard cash – and the higher principles of mindfulness? You might imagine that combining the two might make for an almighty clash. In fact, mindfulness is one of the hottest ideas in business right now. At the recent World Economic Forum a panel featuring Jon Kabat-Zinn (who virtually invented the modern idea of mindfulness), Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post  and a board member of Goldman Sachs was a sell-out. Not only did it...
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    9 Ways To Be a Business Romantic
    31Jan

    9 Ways To Be a Business Romantic
    Tim Leberecht
    career
    Work
    Tim Leberecht is author of The Business Romantic: Fall Back In Love with your Work and your Life. The book promotes devotion over data, aiming to reveal that business can transcend mere rationality and self-interest. The following are a condensed version of his Business Romantic action items: 1) Come out as a Business Romantic If you feel that the workplace or a brand does not accommodate your full range of spiritual, emotional and intellectual needs, it is time to come out as a Business Romantic. It is imperative that you don't just "confess". You can...
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    4 Things I Wish I'd Known When I Started Working
    26Jan

    4 Things I Wish I'd Known When I Started Working
    Fergus O'Connell
    career, stress
    Work
    In the UK, work-related stress is deemed the biggest cause of sickness in the country, with over 105 million days lost to stress each year. Thankfully, there are some things you can do to alleviate this stress or even to not get caught up in it in the first place. Projects, presentations, meetings and sales are all common reasons people are feeling stressed at work. But the one which I’d like to address here is bosses. A strained relationship with an employer can be one of the biggest causes of stress at work, so here are four things to bear in mind if you are...
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    How To Succeed in a Job Interview
    26Nov

    How To Succeed in a Job Interview
    Michael Parker
    career, university
    Work
    One way to succeed in a job interview is to treat it like a pitch. Michael Parker, author of It's Not What You Say, It's The Way You Say It!: How to sell yourself when it really matters (Vermilion) shares some tips to help you succeed: The principles are the same for the interview and the pitch in that both call for you to perform under pressure. Your stage may be a platform, or a seat across a table, but the impact of your words on your audience comes mainly from your tone of voice and body language. The common error when faced with the spotlight is that we tend...
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    Coping with Depression at University
    10Nov

    Coping with Depression at University
    John Servante
    depression, student, university
    Work
    “I can’t be the only thing that makes you happy anymore”. Those were the last words my ex-girlfriend said to me just three weeks in to starting my degree at university. What was she talking about? I wasn’t unhappy. What an odd thing to say. She made it sound like I was hiding from something. I wasn’t hiding from anything… was I? At university, I was formally diagnosed with mental health conditions. You see since about the age of 12, I had battled with depression and anxiety. But I didn’t admit I had any problems: when I was a teenager, I couldn’t handle going...
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