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Ross Mengel
Jan 283 min read
468 Power Verbs to Consider Using When Describing Your Actions and Achievements
This excerpt from "A Bend in The Road - A Guide to Career Transition" provides 468 verbs to consider using, when describing achievements.


Ross Mengel
Oct 23, 20243 min read
Managing Mental Wellness during Career Transition
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a world-renowned psychiatrist, first introduced the concept of the "five stages of grief" in her 1969 book On...


Ross Mengel
Sep 27, 20243 min read
How to Negotiate a Job Offer
It is an incredible achievement to have run a successful job search and to have received an offer of employment from a potential...


Ross Mengel
Feb 7, 20242 min read
Reactive and Proactive Approaches to Job Search
Approaches to job search are either reactive or proactive, with each having varying degrees of success. Here we explore the merits of each.


Ross Mengel
Aug 7, 20233 min read
The advantages of using DISC profiling during outplacement
The DISC profiler is an assessment tool that helps us understand a person’s behavioural style in the workplace from a number of...

Ross Mengel
Jun 12, 20231 min read
A History of DMA Group's Outplacement & Career Transition Services
This timeline highlights some of the events since 2002 that have shaped the Outplacement, Career Transition and Retrenchment Support...


Ross Mengel
Aug 25, 20222 min read
South Africa’s latest unemployment figures and the benefits of Entrepreneurial Coaching
The 0.6% drop in South Africa’s unemployment rate from 34.5% (2022 Q1) to 33.9% (2022 Q2) as reported by Stats SA this week has sparked a...
Ross Mengel
Jun 9, 20221 min read
Executive Assessment & Career Management Programmes - Shifting gears towards the "Great Retention"
The “great resignation” and “great re-evaluation” are global phenomena that have impacted on organisations in many ways, from shifts in...


Ross Mengel
Oct 7, 20212 min read
The Individual & Organisational Benefits of Outplacement
Outplacement, also known as career transition or retrenchment support, helps an organisation plan its staffing levels and continue to...


Ross Mengel
Sep 20, 20212 min read
The Benefits of Group Outplacement Workshops
In the context of career transition and retrenchment support, the benefits of group outplacement workshops and programmes are many and...


Ross Mengel
Jul 29, 20211 min read
Feedback from a "Bend in the Road" client making use of our Outplacement services
This "Thank You" note recently came from a client in response to one of our regular updates on the progress being made by five of their...

Ross Mengel
Oct 23, 20203 min read
468 power verbs to consider using when describing your actions and achievements
Here is a list of nearly 500 “power verbs” in alphabetical order to consider when describing your actions and achievements.
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