Resources

Reflective practice

• Hall of Mirrors — a whole site dedicated to understanding reflective practice with a library of reflective tools and techniques

• Creative reflection provocations — A selection of somewhat enigmatic instructions to prod your brain into being a bit more creative

Career thinking

• Strategic career questions — Applying the elements of strategic thinking to your career decisions

Applications and interviews

• Deep reading job descriptions — A few techniques to help you read between the lines on job adverts and job descriptions

• Using ChatGPT to help you deep-read job descriptions — A LinkedIn post with some extra suggestions on how to use AI to help you prepare for applications intelligently

Managing change

• Force-field analysis — A tool for understanding the various forces for change in your career

• Scenario planning — A tool that helps you to prepare for uncertain futures

• What changed? — A tool to explore what might change for you in a career transition

• Your response to change — A tool to explore your reactions to a change situation

Networking

• Intelligence gathering — Suggestions for interesting questions you can ask a networking contact.

• Building useful relationships (5As) — The different stages a networking relationship might go through

Personal effectiveness

• Understanding procrastination — A LinkedIn post which takes a nuanced view of procrastination and how to deal with it