The 8 Biggest Resume Mistakes You Can Easily Avoid
Avoid these eight common resume mistakes to improve your job search success. Key tips include maintaining a neat appearance, checking grammar and spelling, using appropriate formatting, keeping information concise and trustworthy, and updating your contact details.
How Emotional Intelligence Changed Interviewing
Emotional intelligence has become a crucial hiring factor, replacing traditional focus on credentials and skills. Interviewers now assess candidates’ self-awareness, emotional regulation, and interpersonal abilities to identify those who will thrive in workplace environments and build productive teams.
Why everyone loves a #throwback
Recent graduates face pivotal career decisions, but with the right approach, landing your first job becomes more achievable. This guide shares practical tips from experienced recruiters on setting a clear vision, researching companies thoroughly, and demonstrating genuine interest during interviews to stand out to employers.
Conversation with a disruptive entrepreneur
Casper Ravn-Sorensen, a Copenhagen-based entrepreneur, shares insights on angel investing and supporting young founders. Along with his partner, he founded Dotcom-Capital to help talented entrepreneurs scale their ideas using mentorship, network, and capital resources.
Training Industry Benchmark Survey Findings 2017
What are the key challenges you face in the training world? How will Brexit impact the industry? Which courses and delivery types are proving most popular in 2017? How does your organisation measure up to others? Every year, we like to take the industry’s pulse, to find out how training professionals feel about the current […]
8 Interview Tips to Improve Your Performance
Master your job interview with these essential tips: research the company thoroughly, review your resume, dress professionally, practice with confidence, and give specific answers. Proper preparation and body language can significantly improve your chances of landing the job.
Recruitment interview the WASP way – buzz! buzz!
The WASP model structures recruitment interviews into four key stages: Welcome, Ask, Supply, and Part. This framework uses behavioral competencies to help recruiters conduct effective interviews and can serve as a self-assessment or coaching tool for interview observation.
Tips to Improve Your Interview Performance
Master interview performance by practicing confident body language, dressing professionally for the role, and listening actively to the interviewer. Learn these seven communication tips to make a strong first impression and increase your chances of landing the job.
“Learning and Development is a profession, and I feel saddened when people tell me ‘I just decided to be a trainer’.”
Learning and Development is a professional field requiring dedicated expertise and experience, not something to casually transition into. This piece features Kay, a Management and Leadership trainer with 21 years of specialized experience, discussing the importance of treating L&D as a serious career path.
Overcome Communication Barriers In An Interview?
Learn how to overcome common communication barriers during job interviews, including biases, language differences, and interviewer distraction. Establish clear, transparent communication through eye contact, enthusiasm, and preparation to make a positive impression and advance to the next round.
“L&D should consider the needs of all and not just the top five percent that get on the development radar.”
L&D programs often focus on developing top performers, but effective learning strategies should support the entire workforce. David Cartwright, founder of the OBD Academy, advocates for inclusive development approaches that reach beyond the 5% who typically receive training attention.
“I love the moment when you get some hard statistics…that shows you’ve actually made an impact on something.”
Jonathan Marshall, Head of Learning at the UK’s Diplomatic Academy, shares his daily routine as an L&D professional, from seaside walks to collaborative meetings with faculty teams supporting 14,000 diplomats globally.
“I deeply value the opportunity to spend time with people talking about what is meaningful to them.”
Janet Wilson, a Professional Certified Coach and UK ICF President, shares her typical day balancing coaching sessions, board meetings, virtual collaborations with global chapter leaders, and family time across multiple continents.
“The wellbeing field is so fast-changing that there is always something new & interesting to discuss.”
The wellbeing field evolves rapidly, presenting constant challenges and opportunities for professionals. Paul Barrett, Head of Wellbeing at Bank Workers Charity, shares how he stays current with research and trends while managing diverse responsibilities in this dynamic sector.
“I believe we need to be ensuring learning is practical and real for those in the workplace.”
Fiona McBride, a freelance L&D consultant, shares her approach to designing practical workplace learning experiences. She emphasizes the importance of creating workshops and learning interventions that connect to real professional development needs and career growth within organizations.
“The gig economy is risky but rewarding. All the mistakes are yours to fix, but you can also be proud of your results.”
Self-employed entrepreneur Erik Korsvik Østergaard shares how running his own business requires balancing business operations with purpose-driven work. In the gig economy, all mistakes are yours to fix, but so are the successes—a rewarding but demanding approach that requires going all in.
“The consulting and training industry has a lot to offer and can be pivotal in shifting the business world.”
Interactive management consultant Joe Britto shares his typical day, from early morning meditation to facilitating leadership training sessions across Europe and North America. His work involves designing interactive group programs that address organizational challenges through real-world dynamics and systemic problem-solving rather than traditional classroom methods.
“I’ve experienced a shift in how I like to learn; to what I want to learn and not what others feel I need.”
Perry Timms, a business consultant and founder of PTHR, shares how his approach to learning has shifted from what others think he should know to what he genuinely wants to learn. As an insatiable learner who devours books, TED talks, and business articles, he describes his typical day balancing client work, consulting projects, and continuous self-directed development across multiple communication channels.
“Great training needs to have a real link to the changes they will make when they get back to work.”
Effective training must directly connect to the real workplace changes participants will implement. Frances Ferguson, Training Design Manager at Glasstap Ltd, shares how she designs practical training solutions that drive meaningful on-the-job application for L&D professionals.
“We need to be close to the business if we want to offer meaningful training”
Experienced L&D consultant Rita Garcia shares her daily routine, emphasizing the importance of staying close to client businesses to deliver meaningful training and change management solutions. Her day balances administrative tasks, client meetings, project delivery, and continuous professional development to stay current with industry trends.