10 Reasons why December is the Best Time to Land That Role…

Career planning

1.  End of Year Budgets Occasionally large companies find that they have monies left over at the end of the year which have been allocated to headcount, so they need to get someone into the business quickly to secure the budget 2.  Get Ahead of the Competition...

Your transferable skills are your unique playlist

Career planning

When you’re looking to carve out a new role, change direction in your current career, or get back on the career carousel, it’s time to take stock of your transferable skills and how they can help you. Transferable skills are like the tracks on your iPod. You take them...

Job search overwhelm – It is all UPSIDE DOWN

Career planning

You might be planning your next corporate career move, contemplating a change of direction, leaving a role, getting back into the workplace, even re-inventing yourself from scratch. Where do you start? STAGE 1: You start with YOU DISCOVER WHO and WHERE YOU ARE What...

Lost in your career? Turn your map upside down – you’ve been reading it the wrong way

Career planning

All of us get lost from time to time. There’s a big problem with getting lost along your career path, though: there’s no satellite navigation to automatically guide you back to the correct road. It’s tough to find your way when the map you’ve been using for years...

Branding You, Branding Me Ah – Ha

Career planning, Featured

I am a brand marketer, I studied marketing at degree level, I have worked on fmcg brands and I have spent over 20 years branding individuals and helping with their value propositions in the interim world. At Career Voyage, we take on the challenge of ‘branding you’....

How to ensure your LinkedIn profile gets you found by recruiters

Career planning, Events

Recruiters are using LinkedIn – fact. If you want a headhunter to find you, you most definitely need to be there and your profile needs to be tip-top. Make a good first impression A great LinkedIn profile starts with a good profile photo. Head and shoulders with eyes...