Career
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On Coaching
→: On CoachingI’ve been working with a coach for the best part of a year now. I started because I called my friend Camille stressed out of my mind and she said – like a good friend will – you need someone to do this for you. It was one of the most helpful pieces of advice…
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Learn to Take Positive Feedback Well
→: Learn to Take Positive Feedback WellOne of the things I found most surprising when I started my current job, is that I would ask for feedback and people would tell me concrete things that they thought I had done well, and tell me why they appreciated it, or what they thought the impact was. For comparison, a manager at the…
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cate dot blog
→: cate dot blognew url very exciting cate.blog
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An Incomplete List of Things I Love About Remote Work
→: An Incomplete List of Things I Love About Remote WorkWorking in my PJs. Working on the sofa. Working from coffee shops. Working from airports. Working from bed (only in hotels). Talking a walk at lunchtime. If people comment on my health, it’s because I said I don’t feel well and not because I’m, e.g., not wearing makeup. Not finding random men in the…
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Cate’s Career Coaching Process (AKA A Process for Finding Your Next Job)
→: Cate’s Career Coaching Process (AKA A Process for Finding Your Next Job)I know a number of people who have been laid off recently – the market is on a downturn and this is more common than seems to be being talked about. I’ve spent time helping a few people try and find their next thing lately, and after some iterations I now have a process. 1. What…
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Why HR Shouldn’t Own Inclusion
→: Why HR Shouldn’t Own InclusionOn the list of “things that come up a lot in Feminist Cabal meetings”, pretty high is a complaint that HR have taken ownership of “inclusion” and are being ineffective. This is not surprising when you think about it. Regardless of discussion about “employee happiness” etc, the main function of HR is to ensure that…
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Interviewing as a Manager
→: Interviewing as a ManagerThe final part of interviewing for my last job involved coming to Colombia for 3 days and having 21 1:1s. FYI, this is the kind of thing that immigration finds very suspicious and resulted in me being detained and searched for drugs in Canada. But I digress. I firmly believe that people should interview their…
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Real Talk: Women in Tech and Money
→: Real Talk: Women in Tech and MoneyThis post comes from multiple requests from friends with whom I have talked about leaving tech, and returning to tech, and the way that I started to think about money relating to that. Money is a loaded topic, and I want to be up front here that this is written from a place of financial…
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Hiring Manager Interview Questions
→: Hiring Manager Interview QuestionsGenerally, I’ve really focused on doing technical interviews, but towards the end of last year and start of this I did a bunch of hiring manager interviews. This was a new and scary thing for me – whilst some things (like seeming warm) remained the same, the things I was evaluating were different. It was…