One of the complaints I hear from career practitioners is how reactive to client demands the work is and that it’s difficult to proactively sell career services. Repeat client cycles can last a year or two, they’re on a tight budget and charging a premium can feel like a pipedream.

Allison, a law graduate called me because she needed help to increase her persuasion in interviews. This was her last of 11 interviews that year and the pressure was on. She wasn’t sleeping, feeling anxious and emotional at times.

With over 347 million people now on LinkedIn, the noise can become a little overwhelming. I don’t know about you but I’m now removing some people from my feed or being skeptical of their motivation for attempting to connect.

I recently attended an event of a spiritual speaker and two thirds of those questions asked were about how to make a break from their jobs into their own businesses. And this was at a spiritual event.

I don’t know about you, but after seeing the issues that celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence had with their personal photos being leaked led to me being really concerned about private files. Not that I have anything bad (I don’t think!), but it prompted me to go and get some more detailed advice.

I worked with a client called Jason. He’s spent 15 years in corporate life as a Business Analyst and enjoys the work he does but finds he gets itchy feet every 18 months or so. He finds it hard to connect with his boss as he always cancels his 1-1 meetings and he’s not really feeling like he’s achieving his potential.

This is an exciting week for my family as we’re in the process of getting organised for my sister’s wedding this weekend. She’s marrying her lovely fiancé Ben. He’s a great partner-in-life for my sister and I’m really pleased to be part of their celebration.

I recently had a university graduate going for an interview with a large bank and the interview was over Skype. Even though he was in my office, we did the practice on Skype and I was in the next room to see what the experience would be like for the panel chair.

I once went out for dinner with a guy who had asked me out. He was a friend of a friend and he was funny, friendly and a good looking guy so I thought ‘sure, he seems nice’.

Recently it was shared that Australia has the highest penetration in LinkedIn. That is, Australia is the country that has the highest amount of professionals on LinkedIn and we’re almost at 100%! How good is that?!