CAREER INSIGHTS
A collection of thoughtful reflections to help you navigate career decisions with greater clarity, confidence and direction.
Featured insight
What Stays the Same When Your Career Changes?
Reading time: 4 minutes
Career change can make it feel as though you're starting again. But even when the job title, industry and tasks change, parts of you may have been travelling with you all along.
Sorry about the gravy
Reading time: 6 minutes
Sometimes standing out isn't about being louder or more polished. A gravy-covered cover letter became an unlikely lesson in helping the right employer see the person behind the application.
When the bots start recruiting the bots
Reading time: 7 minutes
AI is changing how people look for work and how employers find people. So when bots start recruiting bots, what makes you recognisably you?
Give Future You Some Evidence
Reading time: 4 minutes
Career confidence doesn't have to rely on memory. The small moments, feedback and quiet wins we collect over time can become useful evidence of what we bring to work.
Mrs Spray & Wipe
Reading time: 4 minutes
We can be surprisingly quick to dismiss the things we do naturally at work. Mrs Spray & Wipe is a story about the ordinary habits, standards and strengths that other people may value long before we recognise them ourselves.
The Kid Whisperer
Reading time: 4-5 minutes
Sometimes our strongest abilities are the ones we barely notice. The Kid Whisperer is a story about recognising an ordinary superpower…the natural ability to connect with others…and what can happen when we learn to see that strength differently.
Your Ordinary Superpower
Reading time: 4-5 minutes
What have you become so good at that you've stopped recognising it? Your Ordinary Superpower explores the strengths we often overlook, the little wins worth remembering, and why career confidence is stronger when it's built on evidence.
When Careers Change Because Life Does
Reading time: 5 minutes
Career change doesn't always begin with dissatisfaction at work. Sometimes housing, family, health, relocation or other life circumstances change first, and our career has to change with them.
Before you hang up…
Reading time: 4 minutes
A wrong phone call, an awkward moment and one last question before hanging up. Sometimes career opportunities appear not because everything went to plan, but because we stayed open to what happened next.
Maybe You’re Asking the Wrong Question
Reading time: 4 minutes
Feeling stuck in your career can make you search for the perfect answer. Sometimes progress begins somewhere else: asking better questions, noticing patterns and taking small steps towards greater clarity and confidence.
When You Know What You Don’t Want
Reading time: 3-4 minutes
Sometimes the hardest part of career change isn't knowing what you want. It's realising you've outgrown what you already have. This was the first time I discovered that uncertainty isn't always a setback. Sometimes it's the beginning of something much better.
I Feel Stuck in My Career. Where Do I Even Start?
Reading time: 5 -6 minutes
In this article, I'll share what I've discovered about how careers actually work, why clarity matters more than confidence, and how the strengths you already have might be worth far more than you realise. If you're feeling stuck, this is for you.