Business Development Clinic: How to eliminate presentation nerves
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Business Development Clinic: How to eliminate presentation nerves

ByHeather Townsend

One of the best ways of building your profile is to speak at events. These could be internal events or external events. In fact, clients will often require you to present at a pitch for a large piece of work. Which means it is absolutely in your interest to become an effective and confident presenter….

What to think about when negotiating a job offer
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What to think about when negotiating a job offer

ByHeather Townsend

The actions and time between receiving a job offer and starting work with your new employers will set the tone for your working relationship with your new employers. Here is our guide to what you need to think about as you negotiate your terms and conditions with your new employer.

needs to be rewritten/updated (from 2013) Is your on-line presence hindering your job search? –
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needs to be rewritten/updated (from 2013) Is your on-line presence hindering your job search? –

ByHeather Townsend

this needs a good tidy-up and updated info before republishing as a new article Autumn St. John is the content manager for Position Ignite, a website which offers a more inspiring, fun, insightful and creative approach to career support. In this blog post she looks at online reputation management – essential for today’s savvy joined up networkers….

11 ways to write a CV that gets you an interview
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11 ways to write a CV that gets you an interview

ByHeather Townsend

The purpose of your CV is to get you to interview. Nothing more, nothing less. As a career coach, when helping job seekers, more often than not the first thing I am presented with is a CV. It always amazes me how easy it is to stand out from the rest of the job seekers by spending time on a well-thought out and written CV. Here are my top 11 ways for you to get your CV to stand out from the crowd.

How to learn to blow your own trumpet without having to blow your own trumpet
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How to learn to blow your own trumpet without having to blow your own trumpet

ByHeather Townsend

It’s widely accepted that here in the UK, unlike our friends across in america, that culturally you don’t blow your own trumpet. However, if you are ever going to get noticed for your partners for the right reasons, how do you subtly blow your own trumpet – without being seen as pushy or arrogant. This…

If you want to make partner, put your head above the parapet
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If you want to make partner, put your head above the parapet

ByHeather Townsend

In our  ‘fast track to partner‘ audio masterclass series, I had the pleasure of interviewing Toni Hunter, George Hay, and Myfanwy Neville, Berg Kaprow Lewis LLP, two young partners who have successfully made the step up from director to partner in their accountancy practices. This was a frank and honest interview, stuffed full with pearls of…

Why do so many professionals live their life by ‘default’?
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Why do so many professionals live their life by ‘default’?

ByHeather Townsend

I was working with a group of mainly young accountants yesterday delivering 2 workshops on networking skills. As part of this workshop, I ask them to write down a 5 year career goal. What was interesting that in the discussions, many of my delegates felt that having a 5-10 year career goal was unrealistic, as…

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