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Welcome – these crisp readable posts on Career Fit Today blog site are here to help support you with your wellbeing and how you feel in yourself, about life, your job, work and career. We mix career progression and advancement with well-being and welcome any questions or comments you may have on any of our latest posts.

My name is Zofia Sharman and I’m a professional Recruiter who cares about how we’re doing or managing in our work and how content we are in whatever we do for a living. I recruit for HR professionals in financial services though in the past have recruited for many other disciplines and in multi sectors, from graduate level to c-suite. Over the years in my recruiting capacity, I’ve held active interest in exactly how people are securing job opportunities, why they attract and suit certain job roles, levels, particular industries or bosses; how they are shaping their career paths and managing themselves in the job, how they got to the (leadership) position they have, and on to why they eventually quit - and all this in relation to themselves and their sense of well-being. Every thing is inter-related and nothing is by coincidence - the moves a person makes in their career occurs through specific choice and the quality of the choice to land them where they are at work and also in life.

In my job of interviewing candidates, I've come across many things that hinder a person’s advancing or progress at work, their level of mental healthiness, or the X-factor/chemistry from being seen especially when it comes to securing a job interview, or getting promoted. Much of it is hinged on our well-being levels, or the level of connection we have with ourselves and crucially us having an awareness of this personal fact. For example, would we have some awareness that our job search, job interview success or lack of, could be linked to how we are treating and being with ourselves on a daily basis through the quality of care, respect and self-regard we have for ourselves (or not). Or that reactions and emotions are contributing to things like "imposter syndrome", lack of self-worth, insecurity, unsteadiness of character and in this manifesting conflict, preventing colleague cohesion or management and leadership potential. Every thing matters.

Developing self-relationship starts with being honest or admitting how we do feel and what affects us.

How we think, feel and therefore how we make a choice, behave and move has a direct impact on ourselves and also others too, which of course has a knock on effect on our career development.

On a first-base level, taking an honest and active interest in ourselves, our bodies, and how we feel are vitally important, because if we aren’t honest and interested in ourselves, how can we truly be interested in anything else including the job we do or the people we work with or manage/lead ... and therefore evolve in whole life feeling internally settled and well.

Dealing with specific focus on our well-being is essential for our job & career healthiness just because when we feel connected and great inside, we also feel great about work and the people we happen to share our lives with too. We get to enjoy purpose, deeper meaning and make the move to the next level of expansion all of us love to feel occurring.

And on this note, enjoy the site, the posts, the footsteps ... and I look forward to being with you on your career journey, cheek to cheek : )

Joyfully, Zofia