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Navigating careers in the 100-year life
This is taken from an article in Silicon Republic which I pitched and contributed to. As people continue to live longer, the expectations of work and the working environment are shifting. From a wellbeing point of view, what does this mean for the individual? From the...
Supporting people navigate the tricky world of work and why it’s important to me
Lately, I've been immersed in crafting the copy for my new website—a task that’s turned out to be more than just a marketing exercise. It’s been an opportunity to revisit the core reasons why I started Positive Prospects in the first place. Reflecting on the journey...
Unlock Your Team’s Potential: Mastering Career Week Essentials
Are you ready to enhance your team's career experience? In this newsletter, we'll explore the essential steps to organizing an impactful Career Week for your team. As an experienced Career Coach who has both organised career weeks in former companies including Google,...
Careers in the 100 Year Life
Ever stop to think about how our lives are stretching out longer than ever before? It's kind of mind-blowing. We're living longer, which means we're working longer too. The old idea of splitting our lives neatly into education, work, and retirement? Yeah, that's...
How to be more intentional in your career
With everything that we have going on, I know it’s hard to carve out time for our careers. I’m always saying to my clients that it is crazy we work for 40+ years but we often don’t take time to think about what we want from our jobs. Being intentional about your...
Let’s talk about career advice
I'm lucky that through my coaching and training work, I hear about the career advice people have received. Sometimes it's that golden nugget that spurred someone on to achieve some new, or sadly, it can be that misplaced advice that stopped someone from chasing their...
Put your best foot forward when it’s time to go back
I contributed to this article in the Irish Examiner on the 5th Jan. Dreading going back to work after the holidays? Effective planning and preparation can help to ease the transition Ciara Spillane used to dread going back to work after the holidays. The...
The Balancing Act of Psychometric Testing in Career and Leadership Development
What are psychometric assessments useful for? how can we use them for career and leadership development?
Gen Z workers lead the way in talking about burnout
This is taken from an article I contributed to for Silicon Republic: by Blathnaid O’DeaGen Z is more willing than any other generation to address burnout. Careers coach Ciara Spillane says employers should listen, learn and take action to help early career workers...
10 strategies for when you are feeling stuck in your career
Feeling stuck in your career is a situation many people can relate to.You know you're unhappy in your current role, but the path forward is unclear, and it's challenging to think creatively when you are busy with work all day.The sense of being trapped can be...
What’s flow, and how can it impact your job satisfaction?
Exploring Flow StateHave you ever been so deeply engrossed in an activity that you lost track of time, and everything around you seemed to fade away? If so, you've experienced a phenomenon known as the "flow state." Flow, often described as being "in the zone," is a...
Ditch the boring, heard-it-before advice— let’s get real on truly owning your career.
