Chair – Richard Lambert
Speaker – Terry Godfrey

It gives us great pleasure welcoming one of our current members to the speaker panel at Careers Springboard. Terry Godfrey will be talking about a great subject, even more pertinent in the current climate

Terry Godfrey started out as a Trader Support working for Kleinwort Benson.  He has since secured a number of positions with a variety of different organisations, including: Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, then Saratoga, followed by Greenwich NatWest Securities, LIFFE and Man Group.  He then spent 15 years as a Senior Trader followed by a position as a Director for Rho Capital Management LLP.
It is important to identify anxieties in your life that may be having an impact on your mind.  Addressing them is key and confronting them head on so you can manage your mind effectively and to not allow the impact they would otherwise have on your job search campaign.  Some of these anxieties may well be connected to the fact that you are between positions.  This is perfectly natural.  Many of us have had these experiences.
This leads on very naturally towards enabling greater confidence within yourself.  How you go about your day-to-day job search activities will indeed be affected by the cognitive behaviour within your brain.  Your actions are steered by your thoughts in terms of how you might approach a task or activity.  This will be dictated not just by your current psychological state, but also by your emotional and your physiological state too.  External factors including your lifestyle, your relationships as well as your own expectations can all influence your confidence both positively as well as negatively.
Taking on new challenges periodically will drive your confidence upwards.  When some of these result in clear success stories, this will provide a boost to your morale.

As soon as our confidence is at a level where we feel much more in control of our destiny, we can better consider how we assert ourselves to the outside world.  We engage in activities with a wider audience in order to get a positive response, which isn’t always the case, admittedly, BUT this shouldn’t put us off maintaining a positive spirit to try again or to acknowledge that actually this won’t work.  Let’s draw a line under this and try something completely different.  People warm to people, and people like people who are like themselves.  If you can appeal to a wider audience by writing an article, publishing a book, participating in activities and events that promote YOU, your character and personality will shine and as long as you continue to maintain this impetus, you will become very appealing to a broad cross section of individuals and organisations who may wish to hire you.

To register for this Monday’s meeting, please go to ‘Video Conferences’ under the ‘Services’ section of the website and click on the link.

We look forward to seeing you on Monday night.

Please register for the virtual meeting in advance of Monday evening. The Zoom meeting begins at 19:30.