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7 questions to ask yourself if you want to move your personal contacts to work-winning relationships

You’re good at linking up with people and developing relationships. However, you’ve still not cracked how to translate these friendly relationships into work-winning relationships. This was the context to a question I was asked recently – and am often asked. This was how I answered the question. Are you senior enough to get instructed? Having…

Career Clinic: I’ve just been promoted to senior manager, is it to soon to be thinking about partnership?
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Career Clinic: I’ve just been promoted to senior manager, is it to soon to be thinking about partnership?

Now you’re a senior manager, when should you be thinking about partnership? Good question! Depending on your firm, your next step may actually be to partner. Some firms use the director role as a career full-stop, whereas some use the director role as a key step towards partnership. Therefore, do ask your partners and HR…

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How to get promoted to manager ahead of your peers

Professional service firms, especially law firms, accountancy firms and the Big 4, are all very competitive places. After all, these firms hire very bright talented people. It is not a surprise that the people around you are very ambitious for their career. This ambition may or may not include helping you further your career. This…

5 practical steps to going back into a partnership after a career break
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5 practical steps to going back into a partnership after a career break

Whatever your reasons for taking a career break, it can be daunting to start the process of getting a role back in a partnership. It’s fairly common to be worried about: are my technical skills up-to-date? it’s a challenging time for getting a new job, will it be possible for me to actually get a…

12 ways your LinkedIn profile will help you get a new job
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12 ways your LinkedIn profile will help you get a new job

Have you updated your LinkedIn profile recently? Your LinkedIn profile is your shop window to recruiters and potential employers, and the first place which potential recruiters will look when they are considering contacting you. This is the second half of our article on how your LinkedIn profile can help in your job search. You can…

12 ways your LinkedIn profile will help you get a new job
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12 ways your LinkedIn profile will help you get a new job

Have you updated your LinkedIn profile recently? Your LinkedIn profile is your shop window to recruiters and potential employers, and the first place which potential recruiters will look when they are considering contacting you. Here are our top twelve tips to make sure your LinkedIn profile is found by the RIGHT people: 1. Consider your…

How to make partner
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Why we need to go towards fear if we are to progress our career

I recently read a great article by Leo Babauta: Develop resiliency: How to move towards your fears and suddenly a lot became clear about why so many highly talented people in Big 4 firms and other large professional service firms become a brake on their own career development. What was the premise of the article? In…

How to answer the interview question “why are you looking to leave your current firm”?
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How to answer the interview question “why are you looking to leave your current firm”?

Recently I’ve been working with a handful of clients who are interviewing for a new role. This blog post is all about how do you answer the tricky question, why are you looking to leave your current firm? Why is this a tricky question? Firstly, you always need to be honest when you answer this…

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6 essential questions to answer if you want a steady stream of referrals from your network

How to get referrals from your network Confidence is essential if you want to establish a good pipeline of work via referral from your network. But the question is how to get referrals from your network? However, you often only get the confidence when the work starts to come through by referral. It’s the age…

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