Occupational Therapist Pros and Cons – In this post I’ll go through the below pros and cons of being an Occupational Therapist: Pros The salary is good Opportunity to grow Good variety in the work Rising demand It can be rewarding Cons Lots of physical activity You need a strong stomach Sometimes patients don’t improve You need good composure Things can get ugly As an Occupational Therapist (or an “OT”), you will interact with patients face-to-face and work to better their physical, mental, or emotional state. You will plan and administer therapy that rehabilitates the patient and allows t ..read more

I spent three years as an auditor with a big accounting firm straight out of university. I hated it so much! But now 15 years later I have some perspective and I can see that working as an auditor definitely has some benefits! In this post, I’ll discuss the following pros and cons: Pros: You learn lots They give you lots of responsibility You get great exposure There is a great peer group It really adds to your CV They pay can be good You get to move around Cons: The work is really boring Clients will see you as a pain It’s not seen as a cool job Managers and partners can be really anal You ..read more

Not everyone loves university. For some, it is hard work. In the below post, I’m going to through some of the things you can do if you hate your degree: Talk to your lecturers/tutors Speak to ex graduates Explore the option of switching degrees Make a list of things you like and don’t like List out your options, costs and consequences Talk to some final year students Make a study group Ask yourself if you are enjoying university itself Don’t compare yourself to other people Don’t be afraid of dropping out I Hate My Degree – 1)Talk To Your Lecturers/Tutors Don’t just suffer alone.  Inste ..read more

How To Progress Your Career – there are many things you can do. Some people work longer hours, or take on more work but does it really get them anywhere? The below are smart ways to progress your career: Constantly work on your people skills Figure out what is important to senior management Get a sponsor Learn how to simplify complex info Don’t get stuck in the detail Feedback Use the 80/20 rule Make lots of contacts Get experience in many different types of roles How To Progress Your Career – 1) Constantly Work On Your People Skills Some people don’t have great interpersonal skills. Many pe ..read more

Should You Love Your Job? According to the graduates I interviewed in my book ‘1000 Years Of Career Advice’, yes you should! The book interviews 100 graduates 10 years on from university about their career paths and advice for the younger generation. In the book, the interviewees offer lots of different pieces of career advice, one that kept coming up again and again was: ‘Do something you enjoy doing, you will excel at it, and you won’t see it as work’ For this blog post, I’m going to take a cross-section of the interviewees and talk about why they advise doing something you enjoy. You will ..read more

Vet Pros and Cons -> Becoming a veterinarian offers a rewarding career, but it is not without issues. For those who have chosen this profession, the rewards can be considerable. The below are ten revealing insights into the world of the veterinarian. Hopefully, this will help you better understand this profession before you make the decision about whether to become a vet. Pros: Excellent pay Working with animals Lots of demand for vets Every day is different Job satisfaction Cons: Long expensive training Treating sick animals Surgery Dealing with pet owners Long hours Vet Pros and Cons ..read more

Dentist Career Pros And Cons -> Dentistry is one of the most sought-after professions in the medical field. In this post, I’ll go through 5 pros and 5 cons of having a career as a dentist: Pros: The salary is great You can be your own boss High demand No two days are alike You can set your own hours Cons: High cost Education committments Pressure Being on call You are responsible Pros: There are many excellent reasons to become a dentist: Dentist Career Pros And Cons – Pro #1: The Salary is Great Being a dentist is not easy money. You will earn every dollar through education, hard work ..read more

The Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) measures two pervasive, independent dimensions of personality, Extraversion-Introversion and Neuroticism-Stability, which account for most of the variance in the personality domain. Each form contains 57 “Yes-No” items with no repetition of items. The inclusion of a falsification scale provides for the detection of response distortion. The traits measured are Extraversion-Introversion and Neuroticism. When you fill out Eysenck’s Personality Inventory (EPI) you get three scores. The ‘lie score’ is out of 9. It measures how socially desirable yo ..read more

Bill Gates Career Advice #1: Surround Yourself With The Best “Surround yourself with people who challenge you, teach you, and push you to be your best self,” As the best selling author and motivational speaker Jim Rohn says; “You are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with” If you spend time or work with people better then you then you will be pulled up to their level, and vice versa. That’s why you should always strive to study at the best universities and work for the best companies as you will learn from the best. Bill Gates Career Advice #2: Finding Out What You’re Good At ..read more

Do you think that once you finish university you will start earning big cash? Or that you will be qualified in your chosen profession? Do you think you’ve done the hard part? Thats what myself and lots of my friends though when we graduated 14 years ago. If you want to be recognised by a professional body, i.e. Law, Accounting, Medicine, etc, school and university is the easy part! Lots of my friends did tough degrees like medicine and law only to find out that there was multiple exams and years of work experience ahead of them. I know loads of people who failed exams and dropped out because w ..read more