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7 Things to Avoid Saying on your CV/Resume

Many of my career-coaching clients have never written a CV/Resume, or if they have it was many years ago. They are CV Virgins. And now they are being thrust into a world where the CV is their passport to a new role. The hiring organization or agency makes it worse by using clichéd phrases in … Read the rest >>

Author luke JCRPosted on May 11, 2016December 6, 2017Categories CV / Resume WritingTags cv pitfalls
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Ten ways to avoid banishment by your adult children

September 15, 2025 10:55 am

It’s a long time ago but here’s what happened. My Dad, then in his eighties, is staring at my two boys. He’s barked a question at them and they are looking back helplessly. They stutter out a few words.

‘Speak up! Don’t mumble!’

I intervene with some reply which kind-of-answers his question.

Later that day … Read the rest >>

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Coaches, please! Let’s junk the jargon!

April 29, 2025 4:01 pm

We coaches are eager to be seen as a profession, even though we fail so many of the criteria, such as barriers to entry, a long apprenticeship and statutory controls. Jargon can be one unwelcome feature of professionalism and it’s creeping up on us in coaching.

Therapy is a parallel here where its vocabulary has … Read the rest >>

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Court Uniform

Why do they get it so wrong?

December 9, 2024 4:50 pm

Over the least few weeks we have seen two examples. Influential people wreck their reputations through inappropriate speaking, despite having easy access to PR advisers, speech writers, agents and lawyers: Gregg Wallace, TV host; Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury. Then, back in the past, Prince Andrew, Paula Vennells, Rebekah Vardy, Kevin Spacey – and if … Read the rest >>

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Gregg Wallace

The man-child and his problems

December 2, 2024 1:24 pm

I don’t know Gregg Wallace, the Masterchef presenter currently in trouble because of his alleged inappropriate comments and behaviour. But I worked in TV myself for many years and as a coach I have heard countless women complain about this same objectionable behaviour in their male colleagues.

There have been a few attempts by unnamed … Read the rest >>

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