Some thoughts on the worlds of career coaching and recruitment

🎯 For months I’ve seen stories about scammers posing as recruiters on  LinkedIn . Now it’s hitting home locally. Two of my career...

👻 This isn't my first post about the lovely practice of 'ghosting' in the job market and probably won't be the last. 👻 In the last...

🏜️ What's the job market doing I hear you cry. We're half way though March and still no signs of those elusive green shoots of recovery....

🥱 Market Update: New year, same old job market...   🛑 At first glance, not much has changed in 2025. Online vacancy numbers (clearly...

📞 "Don't call us and we won't call you" seems to be the default setting for too many organisations when it comes to recruiting at...

🏖️ 6 years ago this week I found myself sitting on a beach during the summer holidays thinking about going back to work. I wasn't...

📅 2025, here we go again. Many of us are back in to the work groove, some more reluctantly than others. Others are busy tackling the job...

❓ 2025. The year of the job hunter? It’s too early to tell and currently the stats show we are about 15% down year on job listings in...

📈 As a sole trader I am part of a group that makes up nearly 20% of the NZ working population. That's right, there are over 500,000 of...

🎅 With just over 5 weeks to Christmas the thought of a change in career naturally falls to back of mind for a lot of people. It's time...

I started life as a recruiter a very long time ago and still work in the industry as a freelance consultant, though admittedly in a...

➡ I've worked in the recruitment industry for a long time, this is my fourth decade (I really am very old). Like most industries if you...

There's a lot of talk about a recession in NZ at the moment, or at least a significant down-turn. Interest rates, cost of living,...

I coach a lot of people with strong track records, skills and experience who are at some sort of a career cross-roads. For a variety of...

Delighted to be chosen by Auckland Online recently to be interviewed as part of their Listen to the Whisper podcast series. Thanks to the...

When I initially planned this article the title seemed a logical follow-up to a piece I wrote in the middle of 2021 about looking for a...

Success in job hunting comes down to knowing how to sell yourself. Do you know what your core themes are and can you weave those into a...

And just like that three years is up. Three years since I cut the corporate ties and decided to see if I could eke out a living on my...

Do you know your 'story'? Without this your CV simply becomes a list of things you have done with no theme and core pitch behind it. Job...

Career coaching is about making an impact on someone at an often crucial stage in their career. There are no magic wands, no silver...