Chance and luck in careers – when one thing leads to another

Often people think career planning is all about finding their vocation and pursuing it, but life doesn’t always work like that… Chance meetings, temp jobs, work experience, doing a favour for a friend – all can play a part in determining your career path. And there is nothing wrong with that! Through plenty of real-life examples, in this podcast Jeff Riley and Deena Panthaky discuss the role of chance in careers, both good luck and bad, and how you can accommodate it in your career thinking.

(MP3 – 9min 36s, 6.6MB)

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Difficult interview questions: what can you offer that other candidates cannot?

Deena and Jeff are back, pulling apart classic difficult interview questions and working out the best approach. This episode’s question is a particularly challenging one, both asking candidates to compare themselves to others who they don’t know, and asking for self-promotion – something that doesn’t come naturally to many of us. The podcast includes tips on how to structure your answer, what to include, and how to handle the unknown.

(MP3 – 9min 02s, 6.2MB)

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