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Careers Counsel | How to Set Boundaries at Work

Careers Counsel is a weekly round-up of the most helpful and inspiring advice for boosting your career.
Work colleagues in discussion. Pexels.
Work colleagues in discussion. Pexels.

How to Say No at Work (The Cut)

Enforce boundaries on your time and energy. Get in the habit of assessing what you can do based not on how much you could do [...] but on what you can reasonably do in a normal-length work week without leaving yourself feeling exhausted and exploited at the end of it.

How Interview Questions Are Changing in 2022 (Fast Company)

As roles shift from remote to in-office or hybrid, prospective employers will want to know that you’re an agile communicator across different platforms. [In this instance,] you may get asked about a time when you had to communicate the same information to several different audiences in several different ways.

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How to Reset Your Career (Telegraph)

Write down [your] 10 highest working needs in full sentences, and rank them [by] identifying those [you] cannot bear to omit and ideally discarding those [you] can. This will give you clarity, help you decide your direction [and] your long-term plan.



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