Part time is working for regional lawyers

Head in Macbook in a Waterstones café writing a pitch for a maternity comeback coaching contract at a company head quartered near my office, I overhear a woman’s conversation with a recruitment consultant. Her Blackberry is wedged between shoulder and ear in the way that makes chiropractors contort their faces and wag their fingers. Her hands are literally full; of happy baby and bottle with mustardy poo smeared up her back (baby not mother) and a grin on her face. The phonecall... Read More

Persevering Job Seekers

This month as well as becoming very familiar with the inner workings of a high street bank and  J22-28 of the M25 (all in the name of client delight) I started to get to know a remarkable young woman called Victoria who has been searching for a job for 18 months. We met on BBC radio where we dissected the struggle for work many young people are enduring at the moment and the requisite tactics to triumph. With Victoria as my inspiration in this month’s Flourishing Female column... Read More