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

Don’t relax into career complacency.

There is a certain comfort in relaxing in the same old armchair, but it doesn’t get you very far. It’s comfortable…
Interview Advice, Interview Skills

How is your interview performance?

Some people communicate with feeling yet succinctly, concisely: they get their message across in a few well-chosen…
Career Change, Career Planning, Career Mentoring

Age is just a number.

“My age let’s me down; I’m too old.” No you’re not. Colonel Sanders was in his 70s when he launched Kentucky Fried…
Interview Advice, Interview Skills

It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it!

When you are preparing for interviews build some of the following concepts into the words and phrases you use to…
Interview Skills, Interview Advice

How to answer closed interview questions.

You need to stand out from the crowd. When interviewers ask you how good you are at something, they don’t want to know…
Interview Skills, Career Management

Let failure teach you.

Yes, let it teach you but in a structured way.  After each and every interview, always go through what my wife calls an…
Career Coaching, Interview Advice

Scenario interview questions.

A frequent element of interviews these days, an element that many interviewees forget to practise, is that of…
Your Purpose, Career Advice, Career Mentoring

What’s your purpose?

I went to a conference in the early 90s at the NEC in Birmingham. It was all about how to maintain a positive yet…
Job Search, Job Seekers, Career Advice

Here's a question for you!

As we all know, most careers start for all sorts of random reasons. We follow the advice of parents, friends, teachers…
Positivity, Self Awareness, Career Mentoring

The power of the subconscious.

Let me tell you a story about a little boy called Sven. He was a late starter when it came to talking. This embarrassed…
Career Planning, Career Mentoring

Don't become a wage slave.

Make your own career decisions, lest someone else does. If you don’t take control of your career then someone else…
Attitude, Career Advice, Career Mentoring

Handling interview rejection.

How the rejection by a recruiter or a company after an interview affects us is all down to our attitude: attitude is…