Career planing and your motivation

by Martin Gibbons on September 6, 2010

Great wee post and video on motivation.

You will be surprised at the results. This is an essential part of your career planning process.

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What is a career aptitude test?

by Martin Gibbons on August 27, 2010

Career aptitude testWritten a great wee post explaining what a career aptitude test is over at www.careerpsychometrics.com Go check it out.

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100 OpenCourseWare self eduction sites

August 21, 2010

The walls are crumbling. The great bastions of knowledge are being torn down. University is no longer the keeper of informations; information that it kept from the vast majority of the population. Today Google is the keeper of information and it chooses to freely share it. So where does that leave the universities? “In big [...]

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Quit your job

August 14, 2010

If you are going to quit your job, then do it in style. Check out this Career Planning article with a twist and then go quit your job.

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Sample Interview Questions and Answers

August 8, 2010

If you think that some sample interview questions and answers is all you need to do to nail your next interview, then you better read this article. You are in danger of becoming boring and no one wants to hire someone that’s boring.

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Interview Preparation

August 6, 2010

Got an interview coming up? Then you may find this post on Interview Preparation useful. In my experience no one prepares well enough for interviews. For some reason people think it has something to do with luck. Believe me, it’s not luck. It’s a skill and you can learn it.

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Behavioural Interview Questions

August 2, 2010

There are interview questions and then there are behavioural interview questions. If you are facing an interview than you need to know about these. They are likely to be the most difficult questions you face because they are about your core personality and often about your blind spots. This is a great wee article on [...]

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BBC Big Personality Test : Child of Our Time

June 7, 2010

Did you watch the BBC’s Child of Our Time Special – The Big Personality Test? Here’s an update from our director of psychology, Anne Ellis: The Five Factors Factors or traits are dimensions not types and people generally will be consistent in these factors from young adulthood onwards, however they are a moveable feast and [...]

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Melt down in higher education

April 30, 2010

I knew there was a reason I home school my son Ruaridh. Seth Godin, that marketing God, has just written a fantastic article about the higher education system which I urge you to read here. Nothing gets me into more arguments than the subject of education and the fact that I home school our eleven [...]

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Is there a best personality for designers?

February 25, 2010

This Fast Company article, by Michael Roller, about designers and personality type caught my attention. Michael undertook an experiment with some designers to find out  which personality traits designers shared. He was really looking to see if there was an ideal personality type for a designer. It was interesting that he called it personality traits- and [...]

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