"Our August newsletter is complete and scheduled to go out to subscribers next week. This month we share the big reveal on our second book hashtag#AGroundhogCareer. If you haven’t subscribed just go to our website to sign up! "

Delighted to share the news that#AGroundhogCareer, the second in the Shey Sinope series of #careeradvice books, is now official!

#AGroundhogCareer, through a combination of the hugely popular Shey Sinope fable, and accompanying analysis from Drs Schuster & Oxley, illustrates the absurdities, temptations, rationalizations, consequences and compromises we face as we try to succeed in the professional world. It reveals the powerful forces that try to contain and control us, before encouraging us to break free to live professional life on our own terms.

#AGroundhogCareer is now available for pre-orders with a launch date of March 2025. Early pre-orders available now via Amazon.

"In this month's special edition newsletter, we share a preview of our forthcoming second career advice book, A Groundhog Career. Our newsletter subscribers will find advanced news about the book, pre-order information, and insights on the publishing process. Make sure you've subscribed via our website home screen."

"We are delighted to announce the submission of our manuscript for A Groundhog Career. The second book in our award winning career advice series is due for publication in March 2025. Sign up via our website for pre-order information."

Dr Oxley sat down with BookMattic's Matt Hutson to discuss careers in 2024, our book A Career Carol, and the big challenges that face us all in our professional lives. Check out the full interview at the link below.

"We are delighted to share the ever popular A Career Carol by Drs Schuster & Oxley is now available on audiobook. Narrated by the very talented Matthew Fuller, the audiobook format brings the story of Shey Sinope and his attempt to find a career... and himself... to new levels of vibrancy and color."

"In our final column we’d like to focus on the one big subject that remains… how do you find jobs? The journey from school to professional life is daunting and sits as one of the most challenging transitions we face as human beings. From dependence to independence. From having a plan laid out for us… to being faced with imponderables of choices and a sense that we are being judged… compared. It’s entirely understandable that the uninitiated stumble."

The Business Book Awards celebrates the work of authors who have shared their industry or market knowledge, experience and expertise in published book form. The judging panel is made up of experts from business, writing, publishing and other related fields, with expertise in their relevant category. Lead judge, Jacq Burns, is co-founder of The London Writers Club and former Commissioning Editor at Random House and Editorial Director at Harper Collins. Jacq edited classics such as Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus, Who Moved My Cheese and Chicken Soup for the Soul.

"So, not only does the evidence suggest that employee engagement hasn’t moved over the past 24 years, but to add insult to injury, an amount equal to Iceland’s GDP has been squandered along the way."

"Our observation is that we haven’t spent enough time educating students on the realities of business – particularly workplace dynamics. Consequently, it can hardly be a surprise that in some cases there is a disconnect. Like many things in life, we can approach careers with unreasonable expectations, with a sense that the world should offer us something special – or we can engage with a healthier attitude, where we are more pragmatic and work to make the best of the opportunities that come our way."

“If you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life … ride your strengths … find your passion … do what you love … you can do anything you set your mind to…” These platitudes miss the most important question of HOW. "

"Where now for careers advice in a continually evolving world? In a four-part series, Dr David Oxley and Dr Helmut Schuster consider the future of careers and careers advice and students’ transition to the world of work. They begin with some predictions…"

"Many organizations seem perplexed or even agnostic about employee motivation. The common thread connecting research into motivation is our desire for autonomy. Leaders can follow five simple steps to ensure scientifically grounded employee motivation."

"We hope these exercises help your students prepare for fulfilling and successful careers. If we could leave you with one final message it would be this: we believe the biggest problem with navigating careers is a misguided sense that they happen sequentially, in a specific order, and following a pre-defined formula. This is where Gen Z’s intuitive sense of multi-tasking may be an advantage."

"📚 Congratulations to 'A Career Carol' by Helmut Schuster & David Oxley (Published by Austin Macauley Publishers) for being entered in The Business Book Awards 2024 in partnership with Pathway Group! 🎉
The Business Book Awards celebrate the work of authors who have shared their industry or market knowledge, experience and expertise in published book form."

"The BookFest Awards honors authors who create outstanding works of fiction and nonfiction. Books are judged in categories based on genre, theme, and aesthetics. Entries will be vetted by an initial team, then the final places will be determined by an elite team of experts in the literary and entertainment world."

"A lot of articles about AI focus on the jobs that will be replaced or changed. This is a distinctly 'cup held empty' point of view. The reality is that AI and technology more generally will make it easier to learn and apply expertise. This actually means that if you are sufficiently motivated, it will become increasingly easy to learn new things. Think of the coder jobs you can now get after just 3 months of online training. These generally are in higher demand and pay as much as $100k. Things like this will become increasingly prevalent... less focus on 4 years of in-depth traditional university or professional apprenticeships... more focus on apply these new technology tools."

"This article is meant to invite CEOs to think more deeply about how mishandling humanistic factors in their organisation can make or break them. We use this Cloudflare example as a case study. Let us start with a few facts and observations about Cloudflare and its CEO."

"There is a long history of outlandish future predictions that fascinate us. Where the misguided attempts to predict flying cars have proven to be inaccurate, the broader underlying themes are undisputed. Jobs are being reshaped by technology, society, and demographics in profound ways. Forecasting how these megatrends will affect professions should be easier. In this vein, here are our predictions for the next decade....."

"The job search process seems to be changing year by year. And yet there are some career challenges that seem constant and universal. For instance, everyone struggles to get started in their careers. We all occasionally feel trapped at work. And, of course, we all experience the fears of becoming obsolete, of being replaced by automation, or of falling victim to a major recession."