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Nobody is in the room when you make the good calls. If you don't write them down, the story of your year defaults to whoever is easiest to remember, and that's rarely you.

Hiring panels worry about job hoppers, but the CVs that actually trouble me show someone who stopped growing years before they left. Here is how to spot it in yourself before someone else does.

The moment a QS becomes a commercial director, the job changes from being good at the work to making other people good at it, and that first step trips up more people than anything else in the Pathway.

A mentor tells you what to do. A sponsor tells other people you're already doing it. Most QSs invest in the wrong one.

The hardest promotion in construction is the first one that puts you in charge of the people you sat beside. Softening it helps nobody.

When your resignation lands, money appears fast. The thing that made you look in the first place almost never moves at the same speed.

A contract worth more than 112 million for affordable housing, signed this month, tells you more about the next hiring cycle than any jobs report.

There is a number worth sitting with before anything else is said. One million. That is roughly how many young people in Britain are now not in education, employment or training. Not on a gap year.

They are heads down delivering a major programme, trusted by their board, and not scrolling job boards on a Tuesday night.