Closing The Gender Pay Gap

LinkedIn has more than 467M users, 6.5M active job listings and 94% of recruiters use LinkedIn to vet candidates. Those facts are hard to ignore. LinkedIn IS an essential tool in your toolkit when you want to improve your career prospects.

Discover 7 ways to get noticed for the right reasons, whether you are going back to work after a career break or redundancy, looking for your next career more or actively seeking promotion with your current employer.

Following last week's story about career change, Louisa Shepherd shares practical tips on HOW to reinvent your career.

Louisa is a shining example of career reinvention having started out as an orchestral clarinet player who moved into marketing. Now she a Career Strategist and Social Innovator. Louisa works with high performing, non-conforming individuals to design meaningful careers, foster creative entrepreneurship, and cultivate impact driven leaders.

I talk to Ali Bickers about the career change that enabled her to find work she loved.

Having gone through many difficulties in her life, Ali turned to counselling. To her amazement, it made an incredible difference to all aspects of her life.

This inspired her to train to as a counsellor. Despite the challenges, Ali pushed on with grit and determination. She now has a job she'd do even if she won the lottery!

Listen to her practical tips for other women considering a career change.

Very often money is an emotive subject for women however you have to stop making it personal. It's not about you. It's not about your worth. If you want a payrise, you've got to ask for it. What gets overlooked so often is that it's not just your salary ... it's your benefits too. The more you get paid, the bigger your pension pot.

To celebrate #NationalWorkLifeWeek, from 2-6 October 2017,  and in the US #WorkAndFamilyMonth throughout October, Anna Meller and Sherry Bevan explore the seven steps to confidently negotiate a flexible working arrangement that both suits you and your employer.

Louise Ladbrooke’s nursery business was a phenomenal success - winning prizes, accolades and living the dream, she loved her work. However the world would have been stunned to know that try as she might, she only ever felt that she wasn’t enough and spent her time wondering when she was going to be caught out.

Discover how to develop personal resilience to cope more effectively with the good times and the more challenging times in your career.

Discover what it means to be "in flow" and how that benefits you, your team and your career

Personal leadership coach, Sue Revell is my co-host On The Tipping Point. Getting "in flow" is a specialist area for Sue.

Listen to Sue tell us what it means to be 'in flow', how you know when you are in flow, how to get into flow, how it helps and why it matters.

Being trustee for a charity pays dividends for your career because it demonstrates integrity, responsibility and self-motivation. Karen Hall is going one step further and is in the running for NCT President. 

Even though putting herself forward feels scary and vulnerable! 

Karen reveals how she's going to pull rank over a bag of lego when she's elected NCT President!

Discover the 5 scary signs of career burnout that you might recognise in yourself, your partner or a colleague.

Check whether you are displaying one or more of these and other signs of sliding into burnout, based on my own scary experience.

I share 5 simple things you can do today to boost your career and 'big yourself up' without fear of coming across as cocky or arrogant:

• Quantify your achievements

• Ask for recommendations

• Talk it through

• Record your achievements

• Save the praise