Articles by Proteus Consultancy Ltd
Career Advice, Career Coaching, Career Mentoring

Going the extra mile.

We all know what "Go the extra mile" means: to do more than is required in any given circumstance. But do we put this…
Career Advice, Career Coaching, Career Mentoring

The power of a simple question!

In the history of mankind there are thousands of people, the memory of whose endeavours lives on many centuries after…
Career Advice, Career Guidance, Career Coaching

Are your career plans ready for the future?

You may think you can predict how technological change, global politics, artificial intelligence, global pandemics and…
Self Belief, Career Advice, Career Guidance

There is no substitute for genuine self-belief!

Perhaps you have an example of a job interview or a meeting with colleagues when your level of self-belief, high or…
Career Advice, Career Coaching

Want to be a better interviewee?

Listen to Einstein! Einstein said, “The only source of knowledge is experience.”  However, we can learn from experience…
Career Advice, Career Guidance, Career Coaching

Do you shine or illuminate?

We all aim to shine (figuratively) at work, but perhaps we shouldn't just aim to shine; what about aiming to…
Career Advice, Career Guidance, Career Mentoring

Dream; goal; plan; action!

"Michael, stop daydreaming, face the front and stop staring out of the window!" Thus spake my teacher during an…
Career Advice, Career Guidance

Successful people never use "can't"!

As a child you undoubtedly heard the phrase, “There’s no such word as can’t.” However, many of us as adults seem to…
Integrity, Career Advice, Career Coaching

Spoken and written discrepancies at interview.

Apart from blatant lies, there is nothing that sticks in an interviewer's craw quite as much as the niggling little…
Career Advice, Career Coaching, Career Mentoring

To criticise or to critique?

"Criticism" and "critique", what's the difference? Whether you are dishing it out or on the receiving end it's a good…
Job Search, Career Advice, Career Guidance

Food for career thought and two challenges!

Me to a client: "How did you get into your first job after college?" Client: "By age 21, I'd failed almost 150…
Career Advice, Interview Skills

The advantages of advancing years.

Many job seekers, as their years advance, become ever more concerned about their age and fear this will have a negative…