‘Love Your Job’ Awards

The  ‘Love Your Job’ Awards  ceremony  was a lovely event, filled with positivity and news of great achievements.

I was honoured to be asked to give the National Careers Service Award for Innovation and Improvement

The Palace Hotel provided a beautiful setting, resplendent with flickering candelabras.

Dr Peter Hawkins, Director of Windmills and author of seven books  delivered a very enthusiastic after dinner talk.

With great flair, he reminded us of the qualities we need to help others – and to fill our time wisely before it’s too late!

Careers Guidance

Careers is a topic that remains close to my heart as I was an  Adult Adviser for many years,  which led me to write ‘The One to One Toolkit: Tips and Strategies for Advisers, Coaches and Mentors’ with Ann Reynolds.

Ann and I wanted an easy reading introduction to theory for our own students, it is still widely used by Advisers and training providers.

I was delighted to hear about the projects The One to One Toolkit  is supporting in the north of England – I also discovered from Siobhan Neary from The  International Centre for Guidance Studies that she has taken The One to one Toolkit to China and Malaysia! I intend to find out more….

The Innovation and improvement Award went to Ceri Wood from Rochdale Council. Well done Ceri!

Special thanks also to Su Matthews,Training & Communications Manager for the National Careers Service at Economic Solutions)   for organising the event.

By Julie Cooper

Author of Face to Face in the Workplace
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