What are my Transferable Skills?
Are you clear what your transferable skills are? Why are they so important? One of the biggest challenges you will face when considering a career change is giving your CV the …
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Top 10 Secrets to Turn Networking Pain to Career Gain
I hear people say “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know that gets you hired.” We’ve all heard this phrase many times. I have read a …
Recruitment – How to Play the Game and Win
Thanks to my colleague, Peter Wright one of our career coaches, for his blog which offers an interesting perspective from his own experience. You can contact peter on peter.wright@gatewaycareers.co.uk …
‘Personal Significance Beyond Corporate Life’™ Why We Work
Thanks to Simon Drury of Art of Reinvention for this inciteful piece. Simon has developed an excellent mentoring programme on Personal Significance in Retirement. For more information on this and Simon’s …
Finding that next elusive role – a long and winding road?
Thanks to Margaret Carman for this recent blog which has some key information to help you in your job search. So we career coaches are agreed that the first step …
The 10 Second Window in Job Search
Some thoughts from Caroline Forman, one of our team of Career Coaches. Caroline is based in the North of England and covers the area around York and Leeds. It has …
All you need to know about Career Planning
What makes up an effective Career Plan? Part two of an excellent blog by my colleague, Linda Denny, of the Smart Coaching Company. What makes up an effective Career Plan The …
So do you really need to plan your career?
Thanks to Linda Denny of the Smart Coaching Company for this blog. This is part one. See our next blog for the second part “What makes an effective career plan?” There …
What’s changing in financial advice and what is the impact on the IFA and their careers?
Financial advice underwent a major change at the start of 2013, as the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) came into force on 31 December. The review bans commission payments from companies …
Recruitment Consultants – Friend or Foe?
Thanks to Caroline Forman who has written this blog. Caroline is one of the Gateway team and she has worked as a Recruitment Consultant earlier in her career. She gives her …