As I prepare to fly to the US today for our Global NPA Recruitment Conference, I have been reflecting on how amazing my network of friends, colleagues, clients, coaches, candidates and Collaborators are. How powerful it is to tap in into your network to achieve greatness. The last few months I’ve been concentrating on recruiting some wonderful people through Driftwood, getting our new start-up, Glow Up Careers ready to launch
Do you give as much time to you as you do to work? Through my career coaching, I see lots of people come to me in a panic – tapped on the shoulder to apply for a promotion, received redundancy, moving location with their partner or really hate their job. There are many reasons for the panic to set in. With an outdated resume, no plan for what’s next
We’re very excited to announce Driftwood Group is a finalist in the Most Innovative Agency of the Year category at the 2018 SEEK Sara Awards. To all our clients and candidates – we couldn’t have done it without you! And to all our helpers, staff, collaborators and merchants of innovation – samesame but different…you know who you are! We’re swimming upstream in a hotly contested category with some very
Did you learn to ride a skateboard when you were a kid? I did, but for some reason (ineptitude, and lack of practice, probably) I never really got any good at it… Perhaps neither did this client of mine. He runs a tech company. Just like everyone else these days. Founder – Evangelist – Disruptor. Skateboarder. Like many of us out there he juggles work life and home life, with
Sleep, eat and exercise – Three simple ways to improve your health and wellbeing. It’s a hot topic about being conscious of our health and wellbeing. In recent times, I’ve spoken to lots of clients and colleagues about how busy everyone is and the need for some relaxation and down time. At Driftwood Group we’ve been sharing some Apps like “Calm” and “Insight Timer” as well as ideas on how
20 years ago this month, I arrived in Australia as a Backpacker, just one week after graduating from a Human Resources Degree in Dublin. As you can imagine I was excited about starting my work career but also super excited about spending a year doing lots of travel, including some crazy glacier moments in NZ and one particularly hair-raising parachute jump…NEVER AGAIN! I was so lucky to get my first
As a working Mum, I have been really lucky to work part-time in my own business while my kids were little. But all of that changed this February. 2017 has been a significant milestone with my youngest daughter starting school. Her brother began a year before, so we had a sort of transition year together where she was an only-child during the weekdays. Tough on her, and tough on me. Beautiful
A Classic Case of ‘Find What You Love Doing…And Just Do That’ Frank Foster (1923 – 2016) Legendary shirt maker to the stars Frank Foster, born Lionel Frank in East London in 1923, has passed away at the age of 93. Frank Foster had the honour of creating costumes for more James Bond films than anyone else has. He is best-known for making shirts for Roger Moore for all of
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