Hunting down great career ideas...

We are about to enter the final quarter of the calendar year – but it’s not too late to make the most of your career in 2014. For most people there are still 3-6 months to go in the current financial and appraisal year. There is still time to develop and take action to achieve your career goals!

Change is a massive part of organisational life. Therefore, you need to be good at helping your organisation manage change, to achieve career success. Over 15 years of managing change at graduate to Director levels, I’ve learned 5 key lessons about how reputations can be made and destroyed by the way people handle change.

What’s the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything? For Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fans, it’s 42. But from a career point of view – it’s building a great relationship with HR!

A senior talent manager in a large organisation reminded me again this week that volunteering is still one of the best career strategies for career growth. They were talking about their own volunteering plans!

Last week we talked about developing your career by socialising and we promised to blog about how you can master “small talk”, whether you enjoy or avoid networking.