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29 Aug, 2013 | Blog, Career management, Life planning, LLP Blog, Women in work
There is a very modern emphasis on getting a good education, a degree, a PhD, a professional qualification to set you climbing the career ladder to success. It feels as if we’ve been told that this piece of paper attesting to our academic achievement will open...
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15 Aug, 2013 | Blog, Career management, LLP Blog, Personal effectiveness, Women in work
“Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.” This wonderful quotation is apparently Mark Twain’s response to seeing his own obituary published in error at a time when it was actually his cousin who was close to death. It leaves us with a...
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5 Aug, 2013 | Blog, Career management, Life planning, LLP Blog, Personal effectiveness
It’s a couple of years since I read about the survey which revealed that for working Brits, Monday was “moanday”. According to a survey of 2000 respondents, we felt worse and moaned more on Mondays than on any other day of the week. How about you? When I was...
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31 Jul, 2013 | Blog, Career management, Inspiration, LLP Blog, Women in work
Following on from my earlier post wondering whether women want a successful career in Academia, I’d like to consider if the path to promotion is fair all the way to the top in (or out of) Academia. The answer to this is I think is complex but a qualified, no....
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29 Jul, 2013 | Blog, Career management, Life planning, LLP Blog, Women in work
As my background is as a researcher in the biological sciences, I keep a keen eye on developments in that area – and sometimes there are disappointingly few. Over the years I have seen the debate on gender in the workforce occasionally make a blip on the ratings...
17 Jul, 2013 | Blog, Career management, Inspiration, Life planning, LLP Blog
It’s always struck me that golf is a spectacularly difficult game – a 3 foot long stick with a small head to strike a small ball just over an inch in diameter and you’re aiming for a tiny golf hole just 4.25 inches across which is several hundred yards...
