Tag: expectations

How to plan for retirement

It’s never too early to think about retirement plans, but I’m not talking about your pension (you’ll need to see someone qualified to do that). I recommend people have a plan about what to do with their life as well as for finances as they head towards retirement.  

With life expectancy on the rise, the period we will hopefully be able to enjoy in retirement potentially grows longer. Now, more than ever, it’s essential to make plans to ensure that our retirements are as comfortable – and enjoyable – as possible.  Continue reading “How to plan for retirement”

Quiet quitting – shortcut to work-life integration or fast-track to career suicide?

If you’ve been anywhere near the internet, especially LinkedIn, recently, you will have seen plenty of content about quiet quitting – but is it a shortcut to work-life integration or a fast-track to career suicide?  

The answer, as you can imagine, is not straight-forward.   Continue reading “Quiet quitting – shortcut to work-life integration or fast-track to career suicide?”

Returning to an organisation – is it ever a good idea?

The job market is incredibly buoyant right now, which gives candidates a great many options. But any change of job comes with the risk that you might not like something about the new role, organisation, or people you work with.  

A safer option might be to stick with what you know and go back to a company you previously worked for. But there will have been reasons that you left, so is returning to an organisation ever a good idea? 

I’ve written before about what to do when a new job doesn’t work out. Having had such high hopes for a new role, it can be difficult to manage the situation if it’s clear you’ve not made the right choice.   Continue reading “Returning to an organisation – is it ever a good idea?”

What to do when your new job doesn’t work out 

You’re excited to start your new job. You’ve done all your homework, asked all the right questions during interviews. Then the honeymoon period starts to wane as you get to grips with what the role actually entails. You start to realise the job just isn’t what you were expecting.  

There are a number of reasons this might happen. It could be the job itself – the type of work it involves day to day, maybe the commute is far worse than you imagined, or it might be a key relationship that just isn’t working.  

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