Jackie Hartley’s BLOG

I am still slogging away with the updating of some of our careers products, an essential job as so many bits of information change. When you track these things on a regular basis you notice that so many government initiatives come and go with hardly a word about their passing. A few examples - worktrain, […]

I was sent this weird link today, so with nothing better to do with my time I thought I would give it a go. Boy is it spooky! If this is a taste of things to come - artificial intelligence and such like - I must say I find it a bit scary. Here, have […]

Just been to see my solicitor at her new firm. She left the old firm for a mixture of reasons which I won't go into here. When I found out I was mortified. I had been using her firm for over 15 years to do all the family's legal work - from wills, to conveyancing […]

The sun is shining and I am sitting here at my computer working on the annual updates of some of our careers packs. That's the trouble with careers packs, the information in them dates and changes (sometimes on government whim, see my previous moaning posts on that score, and sometimes just because things move on). […]

Am still mulling over my Personal Brand as I slowly plod my way through the Reach Branding online training package. One of the things I had to do in last week's tutorial was write down all my goals for my life and my work, including ones I daydreamed about but never did anything about. The […]

With all this lovely sunny weather we have been having we have had the motorbikes out again. Blasting across the countryside yesterday, on my beautiful 1200cc white Harley Davidson Sportster Custom, felt fantastic. It got me to thinking about why it made me feel so good. Then I remembered what Laura Berman Fortgang had talked […]