Tag: success
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The Pants or No-Pants Guide to Choosing Your Freelance Workspace
When you’re starting a business, especially if you’re going freelance, you don’t need to rent office space. Until you do. At least, this has been my experience.
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What I’ve Learned About Life While Looking for a Job
Looking for a new job is scary. It’s mentally and emotionally exhausting. It gets difficult to keep a clear sight of what you want for your life when fear messes with your internal compass.
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Beauty is in the Eye of the HR Department
Even in 2016, when we’re at the top of the food chain and have access to so much information, we are still in an era that celebrates a certain type of beauty. A perfectly symmetrical face and a tiny waist are celebrated more than a PhD.
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Podcast: Wouter Kellerman’s long, hard road to global Grammy success
Now a superstar of the diverse crossover genre known as World Music, he took time off from recording and touring to chat with Ruda about life in the frontline of the winds of change, and to play an exquisite excerpt from “The Long Road”, his epic tribute to the life and times of Nelson Mandela.
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Will the New Bok Coach be a Game-Changer?
It’s official. Allister Coetzee is the new Springbok coach, replacing Heyneke Meyer. Coetzee could not have taken over at a more difficult time. A string of disappointing results, and inability to beat the All Blacks, suggest the Springboks are in decline.
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VIDEO: Your Career as a Rugby Match
Whether in a rugby game or your career, an awkward bounce of the ball, or an unexpected twist of fate, can make all the difference between that awesome win or that epic fail.
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How Not to Get Fired on Your First Day at Work
If you follow these rules and unless you have lied massively on your CV and have no hope of actually ever being able to do your new job … you should be golden.
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Face It, You’re Awful at What You Do
Remember being in school and being terrified of flunking that Science test? Hi, I’m Cath and I flunked a Science test in 1992.
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Competition is for losers
A relationship isn’t an Olympic event, with glory for the winner and sour grapes for the loser. It’s a partnership that puts both of you on equal footing. By Cath Jenkin
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I’m not a real person yet, but I’m getting there
The tough thing about adulthood is not just living up to your own wild ambitions, but trying to match the hopes and expectations of others. Your parents, especially. But how can you be a real person, when you’re trying to be the person other people want you to be? You just have to keep your…