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Is the curse of professionalism limiting your career progression?
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Is the curse of professionalism limiting your career progression?

A few months ago I was helping a group of consultants put together their personal marketing kit. Despite most  of the consultants handling client portfolios worth over £1 million, they almost all suffered with the curse of professionalism, which was stopping them taking the next step in their career.  In this blog post I identify…

Career Clinic: I’m bored in industry, should I move back into practice?
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Career Clinic: I’m bored in industry, should I move back into practice?

I always love receiving career questions in my inbox from the folks who have signed up for our career kitbag. This  recent question really made me stop and think.  The background to the question was that the individual concerned had spent six years in a Big4 before moving out to industry for rwo years. However,…

Career Clinic: What is meant by “leadership”?
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Career Clinic: What is meant by “leadership”?

This was an interesting question which dropped into my inbox. First let me give you the back story. The question came from a highly senior technical specialist who had been head-hunted from a small firm, for a senior role in a top 5 firm. The technical specialist, let’s call them Sheila, was being promised partnership…

If you could read just one book to help your career move forward…
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If you could read just one book to help your career move forward…

When Jo and I wrote ‘How to make partner and still have a life‘, we wanted to leave a legacy. In our combined 30 years in the professions, we had seen far too many able, clever and talented people fail to make partner, mostly because of a lack of knowledge of how the process works….

Career Clinic: Should I take the offer of partnership from a top 100 firm or start my own practice
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Career Clinic: Should I take the offer of partnership from a top 100 firm or start my own practice

It’s an interesting dilemma – should I take the offer of partnership, or should I start my own practice? It’s also a dilemma faced by the lucky ones. The accountants, lawyers or consultants who have got to the point in their career where they are a hot property. This was a question posed to me…

A great tip to get the quality thinking time you need to plan your career
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A great tip to get the quality thinking time you need to plan your career

A month ago I had one of the best days I had ever had at work. So much so, it didn’t feel like work. In fact I was lucky on a few levels… firstly, I had the pleasure of a 3 hr working session with great client to work with, who is very focused and…

Welcome to our Career Kitbag!

Thanks for clicking through from Big4.com. It’s great to see you here. Welcome to our Career Kitbag, where you have over 40 free resources to download. These resources, guides, workbooks, fact sheets, self assessments and many more, have been written by me, Heather Townsend, the author of the award-winning and best-selling, FT Guide To Business…

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