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Category: Career Clinic
Career Clinic on The Daily Slog offers advice and coaching on everyday career issues by leading Business and Executive Coaches, and professionals from a range of sectors.
If you have a career issue you would like help with write to us at contact@thedailyslog.com and we will source a suitable professional to help. All names and details will be kept confidential.
In a survey carried out in the U.K. last year, 44% of respondents thought they could do a better job than their boss. Can they all be...
‘If he was the nicest person on earth but had a problem making his tea, you probably wouldn’t mind doing him the favour. But as things stand...
Workplace bullying can be an extremely difficult thing for a person to admit to, let alone challenge their employers on. Emer Murphy from Lavelle Solicitors walks a...
Two HR experts advise a reader who has been asked to provide an employee reference for someone who was considered ineffective at their job. Is it best...
Your new job might have seemed perfect on paper but the reality has turned out to be far from that. How soon can you leave without damaging...
A reader asks for help in dealing with extreme facial blushing that she feels is not only undermining her confidence, but her ability to be taken seriously...
“You have a choice and you should not accept or risk becoming ill over a job. Making a necessary change is a strength, not a weakness”. Career...
Executive Coach Ines Kretschmer helps a reader who feels paralysed by indecision about her next career move. Is a midlife career crisis a real thing? And if...
Can you apply to change departments at work without damaging your relationship with your manager? Will your reputation be tarnished if you are unsuccessful? Jennifer Davies helps...
Managing a new team can be fraught with difficulty, but managing someone who was temporarily doing your job – and was unsuccessful in securing it – is...
One Daily Slog reader explains why telling her employer about her Bipolar Disorder from the outset has helped her to manage the daily stresses and pressures of working...
A Daily Slog reader asks for help in dealing with an aggressive CEO who channels his anger at a colleague. I have a finely balanced relationship with...
Dear Daily Slog, ‘I have been working for digital marketing startup for the past three years and have risen through the ranks from junior executive to Director...
We have all suffered through the rambling, unstructured, endlessly boring leaving speech, or the one where humour falls flat on its face. Dermot Carey, professional MC and...
I’ve just started a new job (Director level position, reporting into an Executive Director) but I can tell four weeks in that my new boss will not...
Is my company displaying Ageism? I am concerned that my direct manager, and the HR Director of my company, are displaying ageism when it comes to the...
My job requires me to lead a team, give presentations regularly in front of large crowds, pitch for new business and up-sell to existing clients, all of...