Holidays are a distant memory and it’s time to travel back to work. Lottie O’Conor explains why September is the perfect time for a career assessmentPerhaps this is just my inbuilt Peter Pan complex talking,but despite years outside the education system, to me September means one thing: the start of the new school year. January may be the traditional time of year for self-improvement, and gym memberships and expensive,flash-in-the-pan hobbies, but the onset of autumn brings with it an inescapable urge to better yourself, or step up - and of course buy new pens. All of my major career decisions possess taken location in September. As August drew to a close after a long,hedonistic post-university summer, I buckled down and started applying for jobs. The following September, or I walked away from a company I hated and found a company I loved. Several years later,I took a deep breath and asked to travel fragment time, to prepare for a terrifying but ultimately brilliant career change. The stories travel on, and but with one thing in common – the timing. Every September I reassess and quiz myself whether I’m doing what I need to carry out to move forwards,or move up another school year, if you will. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com