When I started my career, as I’m sure many people do, I imagined a straightforward path in front of me. A clear step-by-step road, to becoming successful, whilst I continued climbing the rungs of the ladder. The process seemed simple. Work hard, and get promoted. Eat, sleep and repeat. What has transpired instead of a ladder, is more of a game of the proverbial snakes and ladders board game. Or something akin to a Lewis Carroll story, when Alice is…

The C-word. (Not that one, reader!) You can’t escape it. Every year it creeps in, chews you up, and spits you back out. This will be my 1st Christmas in 11 years of not working in hospitality. The 3-course dinners, the next day 7 am finishes, the Christmas roadshows in July, the vomit clear-up in the toilets, the repetitious Mariah Carey sing-along every night at closing time, the 14-hour shifts, the cook-offs, the 250-person buffets, the students eating with their…

About a month ago I saw this phrase on LinkedIn and it stuck with me. “Authenticity cuts through the noise” I’m from a generation that has grown up with social media, and it was all so easy once upon a time. You came home from school, logged onto MSN messenger, and spend four hours choosing a song lyric to add alongside your name whilst picking one of ten emojis that existed at the time. Over the last twenty years, it…

Recruitment is an essential part of any business, they need the best talent possible to stay competitive in their sector, so it’s understandable why as a recruitment consultant it is a very fast-paced environment to work in.

Let’s go back to the start. The point of these books is to extract the learning and apply. So, let’s try that. At some points I need to aim big. There’s only so many people and companies in one place so why not contact some big fish? What’s the worst that can happen?