Job interviews are possibly the scariest bit of applying for any job. The job application, after all, is something you can draft and redraft in your own time, making sure that every sentence is perfectly crafted to demonstrate how employable you are. If you get it wrong, you face nothing worse than a brief but polite letter in the post telling you that you have not been accepted at this time.

A job interview on the other hand, is crunch time. You get one shot at making a first impression, and if you fluff your answers or get stumped by the question you face long, awkward silences and that horrible feeling of watching people write unflattering things in notebooks. [Read more…]

Do you feel you’re just getting to work each day and just ‘working’ your butt off? If that job were your dream, your true passion and your calling, you wouldn’t be ‘working’. You’d be having a ball, enjoying each minute, learning and growing along the way.

Do you feel like you’re stuck in a bad job and you’ll never achieve that dream? Well, here are 12 ways to convert your current job into your dream job:

1 – Do A Self-Assessment

Self-assess your values, your work methodology, the kind of work culture you are comfortable with and the kind of work you’ll do even for free. Now map this knowledge to what’s required at your dream job. Will your dream job give you a degree of satisfaction over whatever you’re doing right now? [Read more…]

So you’ve submitted a job application and a little while later the employer gets in touch to say they’d like you to come in for an interview. While you may be suddenly overcome with nerves, or panic that you won’t have enough time to prepare, it’s important to remember that at this stage, you’re in a great position.

The employer has asked to meet you, which means that something in your application has made them think that you could be the right person for the job. Now all you’ve got to do is show them that the real you is even more impressive than the one you put down on paper. Just follow these ten simple tips to avoid messing up that all-important interview: [Read more…]

It’s cram time.  You have exactly three days to learn everything that you’ve slept through all semester, and now you need to know how to beat your own brain.

Luckily, there are scientists out there who spend their time learning how we can best do that.  So, for you scrambling, desperate students out there, here are the best study tips that science can give us:

1 – Don’t Cram

I know, now you hate me, but I’ve got to get it out of the way.  The truth of the matter is that cramming can actually damage what learning you’ve already done.  Your brain gets a bit fried and starts making stuff up, just to make you stop. [Read more…]

Living (and loving) Life

“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!”
― Benjamin Franklin

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This has long been one of my favorite quotes.

Time is always moving forward and you’re headed somewhere whether you like it or not. If you don’t create a road map for yourself, there’s no telling where you’ll end up.

The good news is that when you’re ready to accomplish your goals, you can guide your path in any direction that you want it to go.

Here are three simple, actionable steps to take to guide your life in any direction that you want it to go:

1 – Identify your goals

This sounds like an obvious step, but few people identify their goals concretely. For example, a common goal that most people have is to retire early and comfortably. It’s a nice idea, but it’s too vague to be of any use.

To turn a “dream” into an achievable goal you need specificity. What does early retirement mean to you? Is it 40, 50? What exactly would “comfortable” look like for you? [Read more…]