Over The Line: with Martins Toluhi

Getting a new role is a major achievement considering the demands of the interview process, so would have to congratulate you for landing your new job. It is really something to celebrate. According to some research, the excitement of starting a new job could quickly turn to some kind of anxiety due to the fear of the unknown. This episode is to offer you tips that can help make your first day and...

One of the questions I often get asked is about the interview question “tell me about yourself”? The fact is that if there is any question you are sure to get in any interview, it is this very question – “Tell me about yourself”. This question may come in different flavours or phrasing, but it sure tops the list of the questions you get to answer.  So, you could be asked, why do you think you are...

Another question I often get asked is “What are your common-sense guide to acing an interview?”  This question does come up in one form or another and I believe it is a legitimate question to ask. The point here is to be ready for your opportunity and take it in a masterful way when your job opportunity shows up.  I will argue that a successful interview happens way before the day of the interview...

One of the questions I often get is “how do you handle rejection in your job search?” How do you handle such rejections? Just as it is with anything worth doing, getting a job comes with a few challenges; the process comes with some ups and downs. It can sometimes feel like a roller coaster ride. What looks like a promising interview with high hopes just tend to fizzle out without any feedback or...

Humans are wired with the capability to leverage their personal stories on the journey to their best life. This is even more so when it comes to reinventing your career and business for higher growth. The next phase of your life and career may very well depend on the storyline that is shaping your current perspectives.  The question here is “what story is driving your big ask? What story is shapin...

As we have already established that the best asset you have in your career growth is you and it will serve you well to proactively invest in your skills development.   First, it is important to note that the dynamism of the workplace demands that as a knowledge worker you will need to continue to up-skill and right skills so that you can respond to or lead the changing needs. Committing to that pr...

When it comes to growing your career, I would say that having goals is great, but working your system is superior. It is important to note that career development is not linear. Career path tends to go through series of twist and turns.  Sometimes things would come up unexpectedly. It is often at these unexpected twists and turns that we land on great career opportunities.  This is a major reason...

In this episode we are looking at the subject of Self-Leadership as a major key to effectively develop an outstanding career. Contrary to popular opinion, self-leadership has little to do with being charismatic, rather it has to do with being value driven, being a person of initiative who is constantly ready to take responsibility and is accountable for his or her actions. This quality of self-lea...

If you apply the concept of input, process, and outcome in developing a great career, you will realise that to a large extent you can shape your career experience by controlling your input and activities that will help aid the outcome you desire.  The point here is that every career has key tasks that can be referred to as input that will aid a successful outcome.  So, if you have or can develop g...

If you are going to effectively manage and grow your career there are key principles, you must keep handy like a specialist technician does his/her tools. These principles help you in shaping and tuning your career development from time to time. It is not uncommon to find out that people can get so busy on their job that they do not find the time to work on themselves.  Few people make out time fo...

Listen as Martins Toluhi, Senior Project Manager and Career Coach introduces you to the paradigm shift necessary for you to begin to shape your ideal career trajectory.  Reinvention does not begin with what you do.  It begins with the state from which you do it. People do not primarily act their way into a new life. They enact the future permitted by their dominant state. As you go into the rest o...