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SMP Solutions Guide to Transferable Skills
Skills are a key part of everyday life not just in the workplace. Whether you are a manager, a warehouse operative or a mum working minimal hours to pay the bills, everyone has skills that help them in their work and life in general.
SMP Solutions Guide to Moving up the Career Ladder – Part 1
Once you have decided it's time to move forward in your career you need to identify the sort of role and whether you wish to remain in your existing organisation. If the answer is no, then you need to consider what type of organisation you would like to work for. As with most aspects of management, one of the key ingredients to your future success will be planning your strategy plus also doing your research.
SMP Solutions Guide to Moving up the Career Ladder – Part 2
Most managers and staff find being promoted up the career ladder extremely stressful and one of the toughest challenges that they have had to overcome and second only to dealing with divorce a CPID survey has shown!
Also, don’t expect your company to champion your career progression, unless you are extremely lucky, as the survey results showed that most people have little or no support from within.
SMP Solutions Guide to Mums Returning to Work
Whether you have been a 'high flyer' or helping the family income as a second earner, life is always very different as a mum.
Your priorities will almost certainly have changed with flexibility and work life balance being all important. Finding the right job can seem a daunting task, especially if you are suffering from loss of confidence and your CV and skill set are well out of date...
SMP Solutions Guide to 10 Challenging Interview Questions
Understanding the hidden meaning behind these key questions could give you a vital edge in winning interviews.
It will provide you the opportunity to practice your answers so that they become second nature, which should really help your confidence for the big day!
Remember that employers are always looking for specific examples of evidence to prove your competence in a range of job related areas...
SMP Solutions Guide to Get the Best from Recruitment Agencies
Recruitment agencies are a good source for finding employment (but best not to make them your only source) providing you are aware of what they can offer you and how best to manage them! Importantly, recruitment agencies are required to be licensed and are only allowed to charge fees to the employer. The service to the applicant is free, so never hand over any money is asked.All recruiters continually seek good quality candidates and it helps them if...
SMP Solutions Guide to Career / Job Search Networking
The Importance of Career Networking
When it comes to career success it’s often about who you know, not what you know.
Networking is now one of the most important, if not the most important, activities that job-seekers need to master to be truly successful in your job-search.
SMP Solutions Guide to Career Coaching
What is a Career Coach?
A career coach is someone who will help you realise your career goals or equally help you set your career goals to then realise them!
SMP Solutions Guide to Career Values & Needs
What are Your Values? Our values are the things which we hold dear and we all have a set of values. However, our values often change over time but we rarely audit them.
SMP Solutions Guide to Why Interviews Go Wrong
Unless you are particularly lucky, interviews are arguably not the most natural of situations and, depending on the environment, can sometimes even be described as a surreal experience!
SMP Solutions Guide to Portfolio Careers
Have you thought about setting up your own business but have held back because you could not decide which route to go down?
Lots of ideas and options but unsure how to choose?
Do you love variety and differing challenges?
SMP Solutions Guide to Work Survival Skills
These days it is not enough to just think about the skills that you need to compete and get you ahead in the workplace, if you are really forward thiniking, you will also think about the skills to survive the workplace.
The SMP Solutions Guide to What Employers Want
In today’s fast moving world of constant change, employers are generally looking for a number of key competencies and arguably the more you can prove and display the more marketable you become.
SMP Solutions Guide to Lessons in life from ‘The Apprentice’
Love Alan Sugar or hate him, ‘The Apprentice’ for many people provided some of the best TV of the year. Many twists and turns, some interesting personalities and some great learning points for viewers, regardless of their own careers and personal show favourites.
SMP Solutions Guide to Image & Personal branding
(part -1)
How to look, sound and behave for success part 1
What is Personal Branding?
Personal branding is about what makes you unique. It relates to how people see you, what you project to others and their perception of you.
SMP Solutions Guide to Image & Personal branding (part -2)
How to look, sound and behave for success part 2
Part 1 of our guide provided the background to Personal Branding Identity (PBI). You now have a great opportunity to find out how aware you really are of yourself, your image and PBI.
Our 5 minute quiz will help you discover how effective your personal brand is!
SMP Solutions Guide to developing a good CV
Firstly some key considerations …What is the purpose of a CV?
This seems like a simple and obvious question but amazing how many people of all levels and at all stages of their careers fail to grasp this!
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SMP Solutions Guide to Making Redundancy Work for You
For many people redundancy is highly traumatic and rates with bereavement, divorce, marriage and moving house as one of the most stressful situations you may ever have to face in life.
If you have been in a job for a long time, it will inevitably have become an integral part of your life. To have this taken away from you can seem like your own personal loss or bereavement...
SMP solutions Guide to Winning @ Interviews
Are you getting interviews but not getting the job?
Maybe told ‘you did well but came a close second’?
Not had an interview for many years and find the thought terrifying?
Here are some key fundamentals to consider to help you along the way
What is the purpose of an interview?
This is not a trick question but one that many candidates overlook...
SMP Solutions guide to Self Marketing & Selling Yourself
How to become the architect of your own future and match your mission with your vision!
When managing your career, be mindful that the biggest mistake many people make is letting others make decisions for them.It may be that a recruitment agency tries to pigeon hole you into a ‘box’ but you don’t feel this represents either your true skill set or desired job role. This can often happen, as it makes their job much easier but could result in you not selling or marketing yourself in the way you desire.
SMP Solutions guide to Career & Life Change
Research shows that 1 in 2 people are in the wrong job and 2 out of 3 are unfulfilled in their jobs! This startling statistic was reconfirmed yet again by a recent Norwich Union survey. If this sounds like you, then now is the time to start getting your house in order, as life is too short!
The longer you have been in a job the harder making the break is likely to be. Also, the longer you leave your decision to change the more frustrated you will become and this will impact on your life and those around you, especially nearest and dearest!
