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How to Manage Social Media for Job Search Success – Expert Tips
How to Manage Your Social Media for Job Searching Success – Expert Tips from Abbie Coleman Abbie Coleman has over 20 years of recruitment experience, including 10 years running her own recruitment consultancy. Abbie’s expertise spans all levels of recruitment, from graduate to senior-level hires. She’s seen firsthand how social media can make or break…
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How to Find a Career That Energises You!
Read on to for some tips and ideas that’ll help you find a career that energises you. Finding a career that’s right for you and that makes you excited to get up in the morning is what everyone wants, but not everyone finds it. It’s up to you to think carefully about your career path…
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4 Questions to Ask when you Join a Business
People often assume that an interview is all about an employer finding out what a candidate can offer a business. But this is actually a two-way street. You should be asking questions as a potential employee too. Here are some of the key queries to keep in mind. What Structure is there for Promotions? No…
How to Advance Your Career
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How to Build Lasting Confidence
Confidence is a skill that can be developed and nurtured over time. Whether you’re aiming to excel in your career, strengthen relationships, or pursue personal goals, confidence plays a pivotal role in your success and well-being. Building lasting confidence involves a combination of self-awareness, mindset shifts, and consistent action. Here’s a comprehensive guide to help…
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How to Negotiate a Pay Rise
How to Negotiate a Pay Rise Written By Natalie McMillan Natalie has worked in senior board-level roles within operations, human resources and organisational development, and transformation in public sector, not-for-profit and manufacturing. Natalie had a lead role in the acquisition of Scarborough by York Hospital in 2013 and has been part of an award-winning team…
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When you don’t get the Promotion
Have you ever gone for a promotion and not been successful? How did it feel? You are likely to experience a range of emotions: Being passed over for promotion can be especially difficult when you work for a large organisation where many people are considered for promotion at the same time. It can feel like a…
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How to Build Confidence
By Sport & Beyond “A woman is like a tea bag: you never know how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” Within this article we talk about how to build confidence, at Sport and Beyond one of our key clients is the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust. The Trust’s Mission is to…
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How to Say ‘No’ and Why You Should!
How to Say ‘No’ and Why You Should! How to say ‘No’. I’ll start this short blog with a true story. A couple of years ago, I was in a board meeting. We decided to debate the next section in private and due to the confidential nature of the discussion we had to ask our…
Changing Career Direction
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Is Going Back to University as a Working Mother Worth It?
If you’re like most women, you’re probably thinking about your future and your family at the same time. You want to make sure that you’re providing for your family in the years to come and you’re doing everything you can to get ready for the future. One way of doing this might be to go…
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Have Roles in Agriculture Changed for Women?
By Sarah Richardson #IWD2021 For International Women’s Day 2021 I have been thinking (mostly while mucking out) about how much has changed for women in agriculture and how we can now #ChooseToChallenge Twenty five years ago I worked for the local agricultural supplier, a job came up in the transport department. I was fortunate that…
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How To Get A New Career in PR
If you’re thinking about changing your career after maternity leave or having children, what about PR? The number of people who haven’t got a clue what it entails, is astounding. And then there are those who don’t even know it exists!It may not even be mentioned to excellent communicators and writers in the final stages…
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An Emoji Paints a Thousand Words
Learning to read can be a tricky business. Since reading is so visual, it seems logical that we use pictures to help. Maybe that’s why emojis are so popular in text messages – it can be easier to say things with a picture. After all, they paint a thousand words. Updated June 2026 When this…
Work Life Balance
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Top 10 Career Books for Women: Empowerment, Leadership, and Growth
Top 10 Career Books for Women: Empowerment, Leadership, and Growth Who doesn’t love a good book? If you’re in need of a career boost or seeking your next empowering read, I’ve got just the thing. These books aren’t just words on a page—they’re catalysts for change. Here are my top career book picks for women—each…
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Equal Pay Are We A Step Closer?
Navigating the Path to Equal Pay: A Guide for Empowered Working Mums By Katie Ash – Banner Jones Katie has over 18 years’ experience in dealing with all aspects of HR and employment law matters and is a longstanding member of the Employment Lawyers Association. Katie acts for both employers and individuals and has a…
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How to Work Better when you Work from Home
There wasn’t all that much to love about the coronavirus pandemic, but there were some benefits. For example, companies become more comfortable with letting their employees work remotely. There wasn’t all that much to love about the coronavirus pandemic, but there were some benefits. For example, companies have become more comfortable with letting their employees…
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How to Beat Stress and Boost Innovation
By Chris Griffiths Encourage Mindful Breaks at Work Ask people how many breaks they take in their working day, and the answer is often ‘not as many as I would like!’. Culturally, we are addicted to being busy. Going in and out of meetings, answering emails, perusing our ‘to do’ list and dodging constant notifications.…
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How you can Feel Career Fulfillment in Your Journey
So, how can you make sure you truly feel fulfilled feeling in your career and the career-oriented journey you’re in? Everyone is on a journey in some form or another if you think about it. For some people, their journey is to achieve a specific job or a specific position at their dream company, and…
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What’s your Rhythm?
By Barbara Nixon What’s your rhythm – I’ve always been a working mum, and when my older ones were small and I worked in corporate the one thing that it took me a while to work out was the concept of work life balance. What’s your rhythm – I’ve always been a working mum, and…
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Dealing With Stress
By Jamie Broadley Whether it’s about work, family, money or time, stress never seems to be far away in our modern lives. The good news is that with the increase in potential stressors there has been an increase in solutions too. In this article we are going to share the strategies that we use at…
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Mindfulness At Work
By Jamie Broadley & Paul Dockerty We tend to live our lives in fast forward or rewind, imagining future events or stewing on previous ones, which can lead to symptoms of anxiety and depression, as well as sapping our creative capacity and preventing us from being the people we want to be. It is possible…