Following on from my previous blog, Occupational Psychology: ‘So what exactly do you do?’ it got me thinking about what it means to be a Consultant. Here are my insights into what it means to be a real, live, working, practicing Consultant. Any of my fellow consultants out there feel free to allow yourself a … Continue reading
A significant part of my time involves running residential training courses. One of the perks of this is being fed seriously nice hotel food and enjoying very engaging dinner conversations with my delegates. Recently, one of these conversations revolved around being grilled around “what exactly do you do?”. This, combined with a requirement that morning … Continue reading
A big part of getting into the industry of occupational psychology is knowing who the movers and shakers are in the first place. Who should you put on your hit list, and whose radar do you want to try and get onto? Without meaning to show my age, the advent of the digital era has … Continue reading
Being an Assessor can be tough. Early starts, late finishes, missing candidates, last minute candidates, wrong names, no clocks, too many chairs, not enough chairs, and that’s before you even get to the write-up! It was after a recent, and particularly intensive spell of assessment centres (60 forms written in less than two weeks), that … Continue reading
Over the last year I’ve met more and more aspiring Occupational Psychologists at varying stages of trying to get into the profession and it really reminded me of the journey I took to get where I am now. That journey wasn’t easy. Oh no not at all! Lots of ‘helpful’ suggestions but no real advice … Continue reading
