The Blog

Month: July 2026

The Alumni Wall – Why Your Story Is Worth More Than You Think

Wednesday, July 29th, 2026

A few years ago, the charity Education and Employers asked more than 13,000 UK primary school children to draw the job they wanted to do when they grew up. The results were published as a report called Drawing the Future, and one finding has stuck with a lot of people who work in education since. [Read more…]

What Can I Learn From: The Chimp Paradox?

Wednesday, July 29th, 2026

You’ve sent the email. Somewhere around ninety seconds later, you’d give a fair amount to unsend it. Nothing in it was untrue, exactly – it just came out sharper than the version you’d have written an hour later. In our occasional series where we take a well-known book and pull out what’s actually useful for [Read more…]

The Unwritten Rules of Work

Wednesday, July 29th, 2026

Most workplaces run on two sets of rules. The first is written down. The handbook, the job description, the appraisal form, the promotion criteria. Anyone can read it, and most organisations are quite proud of how clear it is. The second isn’t written anywhere. It covers things like: how much you’re expected to push back [Read more…]

Switching Off Properly: How to Take a Holiday That Actually Works

Wednesday, July 29th, 2026

Here’s the part of holiday season nobody puts on a postcard: the quiet check of the work inbox on day three, standing slightly away from everyone else, telling yourself “it’s only to see whether anything’s on fire”. YouGov found that 60% of UK workers who use email check their work inbox on holiday. The interesting [Read more…]

Beating the AI Screener

Wednesday, July 29th, 2026

What Really Happens to Your Application.   Let’s start by getting rid of something. You’ve almost certainly seen the claim that 75% of CVs are rejected by a machine before a human ever sees them. It’s on careers blogs, LinkedIn posts and half the CV-writing services online. There’s no credible source for it. Trace it [Read more…]