Practical, honest advice for UK working mums on managing a career alongside family life. Covers flexible working rights, returning to work after maternity leave, negotiating pay, dealing with redundancy while pregnant, and making the most of your professional skills as a mother. Written from real experience, not corporate HR speak.
Buying your line manager a present for Christmas can be a little tricky – you don’t want to look like your sucking up, but if you don’t make the effort, you could end up looking like you don’t like him or her. And even if the latter’s true, you don’t necessarily want them to know that, do you?
In June this year, the government rolled out the right to request flexible working to everyone – whether a parent or not. While there are those are all for this, many parents feel slighted.
If you’re a working parent, there may be more ‘competition’ in the flexible working stakes, so you need to make sure that you make your application as watertight as possible. Here are some tips:
Some people view their free time at home as just a precious respite from work, the kids or other responsibilities that they may have. However, your home is the most perfect place to explore new interests and ideas.
Infographics have been popping in up in online articles and in business proposals and projects for years as a way to show data or information in a concise and eye-appealing manner. Recently, people have been taking this notion and implementing them in their CVs.
While the normal paper CV might have gotten the job done in the past it might be time to switch to an electronic CV with interactive infographics to keep up with the competition.
Whilst travelling for business is considered a perk for many professionals, it can also be problematic for family-orientated people who do not want to spend extended periods away from the people they love.
Whether it’s one hour or half an hour, finding something to do during lunch that can help you stay on top of things, and distress ca be challenging.
Here are some ideas that won’t break the bank:
Congrats – you got the promotion, or new job! Now that the best is yet to come, here are some tips to help you succeed in your new role.
These days, it seems that everyone is trying to fit a week’s worth of work into a day. While it may look like the epitome of efficiency efficiency, are you really making progress of just deceiving yourself?
Here are five time wasting activities you probably don’t even realise that you’re doing and how to avoid them.
Are you preparing to go back to work when your little one starts school or nursery in September? Are you looking for work so you can get the social off your back? Do you hate your current job and want to find something else to do?
Whatever the case may be, deciding that you want to look for work is half the battle, so well done on taking that first step! To get the ball rolling, here are some steps to finding your next dream job:
Whether it’s with the managing director or your juniors, meetings are a two-way process, and everyone should make a good solid input…or not be there at all.
If you shy away from speaking at meetings because you’re worried about saying something wrong, don’t want to get shut down, or just don’t have the confidence, here are some tips to help you speak up and get noticed during meetings at work:
Do you find yourself having to work harder to achieve the same amount, feeling less confident about your outputs and experiencing fewer productive interactions with others at work?
Have you ever spoken to an industry expert who blinded you with science and made you feel completely alienated? And bored you stiff…
Everyone has at least one thing that they are good at in life. Some are good at making others laugh, others are natural organisers, and some are fantastic communicators. All these skills, however, are essential at some point in our lives – and if you don’t know how to communicate effectively, it can have a damning effect on many areas of your life.
Here are nine golden rules for effective communication that you can use in your home, workplace and business:
Commuting to work can be a real waste of time…if you just commute and do nothing else. While some employers have women up to the fact that you can get a lot more out of employees by letting them work more efficiently (from home, for example), others haven’t.
Being a working mum or a business mum is nome us for not getting the job done! Millions of mums around the world are making great strides in whatever they do, and you can, too, if you know how to remain productive.
Every office has its quirks and unspoken rules when it comes to etiquette, but some of the universal rules of good behaviour seem so obvious that they’re easily overlooked.
Are you the person who’s always leaving your coffee mug in the kitchen sink and leaving it for others to wash up for you? Did you think that your colleagues haven’t noticed? What does that sloppiness say about your ability to finish a task for the team or your willingness to take responsibility?
The days of life-long careers may be over – it’s increasingly uncommon these days for a person to stay in exactly the same job for their whole life.
Many people prefer to build up a set of transferrable skills and move between industries over the years. But making a career change can still be a nerve-racking decision.
What’s worse than having a job that you hate, makes you miserable, barely pays the bills and with colleagues that you can’t stand? Not much really, but knowing all these things and still doing nothing about it comes a very close second.
The new year just started and there is nothing like being able to set yourself new goals. Whether it’s to lose weight, start a business, find a new job, quit your job…everyone has something they want to achieve.
However, by mid-February, most people will realise that their motivation and drive for success has died and the rest of the year seems to simmer down.
