Top 5 career confidence posts this year

Here are the top 5 best performing career confidence posts on The Confident Mother blog so far this year …

1 – 15 of the best coaching questions

If you’ve never been coached (whether formally or informally), and it’s something you’re considering, you may be wondering what questions a coach will ask. Or if you already work with a coach, you might love insight behind the questions your coach asks you.

As well as running an independent coaching practice, I mentor coaching students at The Coaching Academy. I asked fellow graduates and students, as well as other coaching colleagues for their favourite coaching question. Read more here …

2 – I was the woman on the brink

19 years ago, I was that woman on the brink. Hardworking, successful, ambitious … and on the edge of burnout. I was the Tax & Legal Technology Manager at one of the UK’s top professional services firms, Arthur Andersen (no longer in existence. You might remember the Enron scandal).

I regularly worked 8am to 8pm, skipping lunch, working evenings, always exhausted and not able to sleep. When I wanted to self-harm to cope, I knew something had to give. Read more here …

3 – Why career break mums need to be on LinkedIn

If you are a mum on a career break, when it comes to going back to work, if you don’t have a LinkedIn profile you ARE missing out on employment opportunities.

92% of companies use social media for recruitment – in the past few years, there has been an explosion in the way that social media is used for recruitment. LinkedIn very much leads the way (93% of companies), ahead of Facebook (66%) and Twitter (54%). Read more here …

4 – How to find out exactly when you joined LinkedIn

When one of my clients asked me “How long have you been using LinkedIn Sherry? I am completely lost and still can’t find my way around”, it got me thinking.

I knew it had been a few years. I was made redundant from my law firm in 2009 and before that, I’d been teaching lawyers how to make more effective use of LinkedIn for business development purposes. Read more here …

5 – How to cope when you feel completely overwhelmed

Do you get those days when you feel completely overwhelmed?

When you want to put your head in your hands and cry because you feel like you’re the only one trying to do it all (and not succeeding)?

When you have a long list of things to do, and they’re all important but you just don’t know where to even start, and the more time you spend flapping and flustering, the longer the list gets, and you don’t know who to ask for help, and they’re probably all too busy anyway, and it’s getting close to 5pm and you really ought to get this email sent out but you also need to make sure everybody has confirmed their attendance for the training course but if you don’t get that train from Cannon Street at 5.40pm, you won’t get back in time to eat before running club tonight and you’ve still got to wash the PE kit. And ….