In my continuing attempt to regulate the day-to-day routine tasks, I’m always a sucker for those articles which list the latest & best apps, tools and websites. So when Daily Tekk writes about getting organised with “The 100 Best Tools, Websites, Apps and More” I’m in hook, line and sinker. Especially when I only know […]
With so much online comment, how do you protect your name?
A person’s career can be negatively impacted if either their own name or their employer’s name is unfavourably mentioned in cyberspace. Most experts suggest the first step in ‘reputation management’ comes with monitoring your name online and there are now a host of tools to make this task easy. To keep tabs on what might […]
A ‘thank you’ to teachers and parents
Today has been very emotional for me and I want to say ‘thank you’ to express the pleasure, pride and pain that I feel by writing this open letter to….well, I don’t know who? For 22 years as a parent with children in Catholic schools, I’ve been involved in countless meetings, school visits, teacher interviews, […]
How women unintentionally stunt their careers
This is obviously a generalisation, however in my 18 years of recruiting for senior roles, a recurring pattern is as follows: a male will apply for a role if they meet, say, 4 of the 6 selection criteria and do so with the confidence they can perform in the position; a female, by comparison, won’t […]
