About the author

RUS SLATER has been a career coach since the mid 1990s. His experience in this field has led him to work with people ranging from the unemployed (across the nation) to the General Secretary of a Trade Union, from people who are leaving school to people who are coming back out of retirement, and from people who are looking for a job to people who are setting up their own businesses.

He is also a ‘portfolio’ worker, and when he is not career coaching he designs and delivers management training programmes to organisations ranging from small local charities to global conglomerates. Some of this takes him to exciting, far-off venues such as High Wycombe and Chippenham, and some of it he delivers online by ‘virtual classroom’ from ...

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