by Dr. Sagar Jilka About 5 years ago, I went through the most intense, stressful period of my life. I struggled to function, think straight, and sleep. As someone who thinks in numbers, this bothered me a lot; because I couldn’t quantify how I was feeling, why I was thinking…

by Dr. Sara Simblett Perhaps you’ve completely missed the early warning signs and now you’re feeling full-on overwhelmed, or maybe your body is reacting in weird ways — stomach pains one day, a headache the next, but your doctor is telling you you’re physically fine! You’re listening to the same…

It’s a simple question, and with the millions and millions pouring into mental health globally today (£580m in 2019 alone, pre-pandemic) and the enormous cost to society of mental health problems (estimated at $16 trillion annually by 2030), surely we are directing that capital wisely to what are the most…

You’ve worked somewhere for 5 years, over which time you have come to be known as the person who ‘gets stuff done’, who consistently presents work of the highest quality, is organised and punctual to a fault and, when it comes to performance reviews, always receives glowing praise. Now say…

You’ve gone through the application process, held multiple stages of interviews and completed the assessments, now, the final ‘hurdle’ — reference checking, simple right? As they currently work though most references are generally pretty useless, for a few reasons: They happen at the end of the recruitment process By this…

This is a big question as most application processes give significant weight to these 3 things so let’s take them in turn: Qualifications (and by that I mean the ones you usually get before you start work e.g. degrees etc) No, probably not. Passing a university degree (or getting the highest…

Looking for a job can seem incredibly daunting, it’s a huge commitment and can feel like an incredibly complicated one at that. So much so we often subconsciously reduce the roles we look at down to simple heuristics such as “How much does it pay?”, “Have I heard of the…

The first problem you will probably encounter when trying to find your first (or next job) is a slightly existential one… what you should be doing with your life now? It’s an incredibly daunting question to ask yourself as it will make you feel like you are making a huge…

By and large, the job application process has remained pretty much the same for decades: you apply for a job, maybe do some tests of some sort (largely unrelated to your job and in fact having a questionable scientific basis for being given), then do some interviews with HR and…