When hiring, employers typically look for hard skills and soft skills. Hard skills are job specific; soft skills are general. They’re personality traits and interpersonal skills that directly affect your relationships with other people, like communication, teamwork and empathy.   Many candidates struggle with soft skills because while you can learn from a training…

Dropping an F-Bomb and storming out; writing a full-length opinion piece in a national paper; hiring a brass band to accompany your exit – they’re all novel ways to quit a business and none of them are recommended. At some point, most of us will move on from a company, and as funny as it…

What’s the worst that could happen in a job interview?   For a candidate, arriving late, being overcome with nerves or not preparing properly can all make the experience feel less-than-positive. For an interviewer, being faced with a completely unsuitable candidate can make the whole thing feel like a complete waste of time.   But…

What is flexible working? You might think the answer is obvious – employees working from home, the chance to choose working hours, perhaps even the offer of a career break for travelling. But there’s more to it than meets the eye. As the war for talent continues to rage, employers are under more pressure than…