Jim Bright
Dr Jim Bright FAPS owns Bright and Associates, a career management consultancy, and is director of edtech start-up BECOME Education. Email to opinion@jimbright.com.
Opinion
Careers
Forget big, bold new year goals. Instead, just do your best
Recent studies have shown setting specific goals is less effective than just trying your best.
- by Jim Bright
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Opinion
Workplace culture
Bad advice is everywhere at work. Here’s how to spot it
In the world of careers advice and HR, bad ideas persist in the face of all evidence and reason to a degree that astrologers can only envy.
- by Jim Bright
Opinion
Workplace
Who’s more neurotic, dentists or engineers? Does it matter?
According to a study published this year, there are reliable differences in the average personality profiles across different occupations.
- by Jim Bright
Opinion
Managing
What I found most chilling about the way some redundancies are handled
It is too easy to forget that managing people is all about humans, and that all of us will occasionally struggle, be confronted or feel overwhelmed.
- by Jim Bright
Opinion
Workplace culture
When do companies fall apart? When they stop being curious
Creating company culture is an unpredictable process. Coming up with a few empty core values and putting up posters in the lunchroom will not cut it.
- by Jim Bright
Opinion
Careers
Our jobs aren’t a horse race, so stop trying to pick a winner
If we knew the results ahead of time, it’d be easy to pick the perfect career. But backing a winner with no experience is almost impossible.
- by Jim Bright
Opinion
Careers
Why we need to stop the careers counselling guessing game
Careers counsellors should not allow themselves to be put in the business of making predictions. Leave that to the astrologers.
- by Jim Bright
Opinion
Careers
Waiting for a career breakthrough? A bit of luck is all you need
In a world of careers advice that emphasises having a plan, setting goals and controlling your future, it is worth reflecting on the role luck plays.
- by Jim Bright
Opinion
Jobs
Why do young people hate their jobs? I’ll give you a clue
Why should young workers slave away at a job they hate when the traditional rewards of hard work, such as owning a house, are so far out of reach?
- by Jim Bright
Opinion
Working from home
Fore! Why golf-loving, office-obsessed employers need to look out
Employers determination to cling to archaic ways of working has many similarities to the similarly expired views one might see on the green.
- by Jim Bright
Opinion
Workplace culture
Senior staff don’t deserve to fly business, so let’s ditch the work perk
It does not make sense why management should get to fly business class while everyday pleb employees are left to languish in economy.
- by Jim Bright
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