Take a chance (to paraphrase Abba)…..

After the interview posts, which got some good reaction, I was pondering what might engage next for PiPS members and then I wondered if actually, feedback itself might be useful? Scary stuff perhaps because frankly you have not asked for it, but potentially useful...

Interviews – The before and after

Whether for a job or promoting your services never doubt the importance of making a good first impression. This is a slightly longer post than normal but I have had such a strong response to the previous interview article I felt it was worthwhile to offer more.  In...

Please,do take a seat.

Interviews on the outside …..  hmmmm     I sent a note out a couple of weeks ago to the members subscribed on the website (lots more to see over there!) I asked what burning questions they had and I was delighted to receive so many responses. I will try to...

Who knows all the answers?

I was struck again today that the really self aware and quietly confident people really do say when they do not know about something and feel, rightly, no embarrassment in doing so. In saying you do not know something you are offering a realistic view of yourself. Who...

View from the beach (bar) ……

 …….. the “Newbie Wobble”   from Carl Mason I left UK Policing two years ago and now work in the Caribbean, sitting on a beach most days, shipwrecked and comatose, drinking fresh mango juice, with goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes – it’s fun, fun, fun…....