Category: Candidates

The Authentic Voice When Interviewing

If you’re going to invest time and effort putting yourself “out in the market”, it’s necessary to show who you are, both written and verbally. Obviously, there is a degree of artfulness in how to present yourself once know your audience. In all that preparation of getting pushed onto the stage, what can get buried…
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Don’t Ignore Me

I was coaching an AsiaPac President whose company had been bought by a larger organisation. He’d negotiated his exit and was weighing options. Over dinner, he showed me a spreadsheet he’d made with five options, and we went through each scenario. One option was with a large MNC. He’d been in an off-on dialogue for…
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Why we dislike writing CVs–but shouldn’t

For many of us, writing our own CV is unpleasant, a thing to be put aside until it needs to be done. Often the resistance is because a CV rehashes the past, forcing you to highlight your genius, repeating how many times you’ve re-organised the company and saved the day. Seldom do we write–or talk–about…
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Hire with Head and Heart

Hire with head and heart. If you’re not emotionally engaged to bring on a new hire, it’s a chore. If time and thought is not invested, it’s easy to get weary of the hiring process, and it gets pushed back for a later date. A decision is, by default, uncertain. Such is life, and such…
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