As a career coach in Zurich, I regularly write about topics relating to careers, job applications, personal and professional assessment, coaching, communication and outplacement.
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Coaching
- «Further education is never wrong!»- but is it always right? – July 2023
- Diversity? Yes, but for real! – October 2023
- The blessing of bad experiences – November 2023
- Keep your eyes on your goals, not your opponents – January 2024
- Express your nees – maybe no one will object – February 2024
- Why do you have to if you could also want to? – May 2024
- There are no such thing as negative emotions – June 2024
- Kintsugi – a model for dealing with disruptions in life – July 2024
- What I learnt as a waiter for coaching – July 2024
- Surrounded by idiots – September 2024
- How eagles learn to fly – October 2024
- Will is silver, habit is gold – January 2025
- Role play – an underestimated concept! – February 2025
- Self-hypnosis – an extensively practised art! – February 2025
- And still idiots as far as the eye can see… – March 2025
- Clothes still make people – April 2025
- Homo sapiens? By no means! – May 2025
- User manual for a supervisor – May 2025
- Everything is changing! Really? – August 2025
- The trial is an invitation to failure – August 2025
- If it can’t be solved, it’s not a problem – September 2025
- Think with your head, decide with your gut – October 2025
- Self-marketing is always! – November 2025
- Don’t twist yourself out of shape – but do adjust your behaviour! – November 2025
- And – what’s your diagnosis? – January 2026
- How to outwit procrastination – February 2026
- Help – I am becoming arrogant! – April 2026
- Autodidactic learning – a key skill for the future – April 2026
Personal and Professional Assessment / Personal Branding
- Yes, it’s all about hocus-pocus strengths – May 2023
- Dreams do not always want to be realised – May 2023
- Certified, so I am… – May 2023
- Subconscious versus mind 1:0 – August 2023
- Do you know your transferable skills? – August 2023
- All roads lead to Rome – even if it takes a little longer – August 2023
- Know thyself, or others will – October 2023
- Successful career design through self-observation – December 2023
- Introvert is not a dirty word – January 2024
- Deal with your dreams when things are going well – February 2024
- It’s never too late to start a new career – March 2024
- My job has to be fun – well then; enjoy it! March 2024
- Don’t look for your passion – let it develop – April 2024
- SME experience is sexy! – May 2024
- Rethinking meaning and sustainability in the workplace – June 2024
- Why I don’t use personality tests – August 2024
- A career grows in two directions – September 2024
- Why strengths are poor career signposts – September 2024
- Change the situation, not yourself – October 2024
- Career – Planning or Design? – November 2024
- Does career advancement always mean more stress? – December 2024
- Are career issues «luxury problems»? – February 2025
- Energy-efficient working 60plus – April 2025
- Dream job «One-Trick Pony» – May 2025
- What external perceptions are good for – September 2025
- Career killer home office? – February 2026
Job Search / Application
- On what does the CV depend? On the content! – April 2023
- Writing motivation letters with Chat GPT – seriously? – June 2023
- 7 times in last round – 7 times refused – September 2023
- Get a new job through mystery shopping – July 2023
- Do you put all your assets on the scale pan? – October 2023
- A good application is condensed time – November 2023
- Job search? Approach it like a headhunter – December 2023
- Is the motivation letter an obsolete model? – February 2024
- Should I optimize my CV for AI? – March 2024
- Ghosting in recruitment and application – April 2024
- Selection of applicants based on grades – seriously? – May 2024
- Interpretation of standard rejections – July 2024
- How recruiters read your application documents – yes, they still read! – October 2024
- What you can learn from a professional negotiator for your application – November 2024
- Don’t fall in love with job adverts! – December 2024
- Skills-based recruiting – old wine in new skins? – March 2025
- Why motivation makes the difference in job applications – June 2025
- Recruitment and job applications – an art! – December 2025
- Why you shouldn’t apply downwards – March 2026
- Applying and recruiting work like investing – March 2026
- Swarm about the job – not the job environment! – March 2026
- Recruiter and hiring manager are often insecure too – April 2026
Job interview / Self-marketing
- Are you still tapping or are you already telling? – March 2023
- On job interviews and gorillas – April 2023
- Influence? Yes – but the right way! – April 2023
- The job interview is about sympathy – June 2023
- Hypnosis of the interviewer – June 2023
- Also tell me what I already know! – July 2023
- Sell yourself well – talk about your weaknesses! – September 2023
- Young banker, fired without notice, looks for… – September 2023
- How do you want to be remembered? – October 2023
- «Tick the boxes» in the interviewer’s head! – March 2024
- A job interview is like a joke – April 2024
- Let’s talk straight – please! – July 2024
- Don’t wake sleeping dogs in a job interview! – July 2024
- The 3 most important success factors in a job interview are… – August 2024
- Provide information in the job interview, not interpretations – September 2024
- How storytelling works in a job interview – October 2024
- The most dangerous questions in a job interview – October 2024
- Double the work for recruiters and applicants – November 2024
- «Psycho» for the job interview – December 2024
- How you should not communicate your transferable skills – January 2025
- My name is Bond – James Bond – January 2025
- «What do I do with my hands in the job interview?» – January 2025
- How to talk your head off in a job interview – February 2025
- Who is the most competent person in the meeting? Possibly you! – March 2025
- Storytelling – attitude or technique? – April 2025
- «Can I really be myself in a job interview?!?» – July 2025
- What sticks better – the beginning or the end of a story? – October 2025
- How not to show your personality in a job interview! – November 2025
- May I speak badly about former employers in job interviews? – March 2026
Communication
- Poultry does not fly – May 2023
- Personal branding without myth – April 2023
- Why success does not speak enough for itself – June 2023
- Self-marketing is a requirement in every job – August 2023
- The 4 P’s of self-marketing – October 2023
- Forget the «we» in self-marketing! – October 2023
- What makes storytelling so effective? Pictures! – May 2024
- What does Hitchcock’s “The Birds” tell us about communication? – June 2024
- Why knowledge of German is important after all – August 2024
- What you shouldn’t use AI for – November 2024
- You can always improvise if you are excellently prepared! – March 2025
- Homo sapiens? By no means! – May 2025
- «The Big Bang Theory» in Personal Branding – August 2025
- Doing and speaking are different states of consciousness – September 2025
- Why interpreting gestures often goes wrong – September 2025
- Bring suspense into your self-marketing! – February 2026
- What Snow White teaches us about communication – April 2026
Outplacement / Newplacement
- Statistics as proof of success in outplacement? – March 2023
- 50plus – (self-)underestimated potential – May 2023
- Understanding your own career with «Career-Telling» – August 2023
- How not to conduct a termination meeting – November 2023
- Storytelling – tell your entire story! – November 2023
- Career success through specialisation – December 2023
- Shortage of specialists’ self-awareness – January 2024
- Do, not think! Design thinking for your career – February 2024
- Career decisions are internal majority decisions – February 2024
- Success is a matter of perspective – March 2024
- Bad experiences lead to good requirements – June 2024
- What do you want: salary, impact or self-expression? – August 2024
- Success is overrated – May 2025
- A career is more like a golf tournament than a tennis match – May 2025
- What do I do in my jobless time? – June 2025
- Bronze makes you happier than silver! – June 2025
- Ask for everything – you might even get it – June 2025
- Strength = Talent x Investment – July 2025
- Do you also prompt yourself? – July 2025
- What is the key question in career development? – September 2025
- Good fairy seaks work! – October 2025
- When it’s time to move on in your career – December 2025
- We cannot not do self-marketing – January 2026
- Help – my job market is shrinking! – February 2026
- All or nothing – a poor career strategy! – March 2026