I often equate looking for a job with searching for business customers. In the same way a business owner uses their influencing skills, a job seeker applies his or her powers of persuasion during networking, interviews and final offer negotiations. Therefore, it is fundamental to learn and understand the key principles of influencing and to constantly ...

Career Coaching Ventures - Who Are We? from Dasha Amrom, MA, MBA

Career transitions – these two words can make even the most risk-taking of us feel nervous and uncertain. That’s a perfectly natural reaction – changing career path is one of the most challenging events in one’s life as it requires courage, determination and forcing yourself out of your comfort zone (your current/previous job). However, with the ...

Today we are talking to Jill Stuart - an American immigrant to the UK. She will be receiving British citizenship in the next couple of months, based on ‘long term settlement’ as she has lived in the UK now for over 10 years. However Jill admits it has not always been easy to maintain her ...

  There is a growing trend for video resumes tailored to a specific job. The case in favour is that a video resume will showcase your creativity, your ability to think out of the box and most importantly, your personal qualities and characteristics, which a traditional resume doesn't do justice to. Furthermore, a video resume will give ...

  At Career Coaching Ventures we work with a high number of international postgraduate students and I often get asked – ‘How do I find a job in the UK? Do I even have a chance of getting a job here?’ It is already tough to get a company to sponsor your work permit and it is ...

  Today we are talking to Brendon Craigie, Group CEO of global PR and communications consultancy Hotwire. 1. Being a successful CEO of a PR company, can you please share what it took to reach the top of the career ladder at your company? I guess one of the main things is ambition. You need to have an appetite to ...

Dear all, August is here already and with it – here is the latest edition of our monthly newsletter! First of all, we wanted to congratulate all those who have either recently graduated (for instance from LBS, WBS, Cass) and those whose graduation is coming up fast (Hult, Imperial, Lancaster and others). After all the hectic days ...

On the 25th of July I was invited to take part in a careers discussion on the Guardian website on the topic of how having a family can impact your career and how to handle work-related challenges presented by the arrival of a new baby. Here I would like to summarise the key points of the ...

  Today we are talking to David Sargeant, Founder of iGaming Ideas – an incubator and seed fund for new ideas in the online gambling space.  1. What is the single most important piece of advice would you give to aspiring entrepreneurs? Validate your ideas. Make sure before you spend any time or money that you make sure that ...