After a short break and we are back helping clients get jobs, change careers and get promotions.
The enquiries are already rolling in.
It’s a good strategy as many recruiters will be back at their desks this morning.
It’s good to look back over one’s career.
In mine there’s a lot of politics, journalism and teaching work.
What I don’t include in my resume is the research I did on organisational systems at university.
I wondered why some workplaces felt light and breezy, while others were hell holes.
My mind was blown by Gareth Morgan’s book, Images of Organizations. He used metaphors to try understand how organisations worked.
I started looking at how animals structured their world. That included everything from bees and beehives to satellite communications.
I taught writing at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
The research papers I wrote for my Master degree were on organisational communication.
Lots of people carry unrealised or secondary careers and interests.
Explore them because they sometimes provide a new career.