Nigel Cumberland

"Stop worrying about what you cannot control. It’s a total waste of your energy, energy that could otherwise be used to help you focus on what you can influence. I spend large parts of my coaching sessions helping people to sift through their challenges and concerns – helping them to determine what they can change and what they have no control over."

"If little kids could play more, you´d have better engineers, better managers and more inspiration in the workplace.If you deny a toddler the chance to play and then put him in a preschool where he is always competing and being measured, you get fear and that leads to an unwillingness to take risks. You end up with boring adults."

"Whatever you start, finish well!"

"(The Facebook campaign) "is a bit of a feel-good, but it is better than nothing"

"Candidates should be proactive and show passion and commitment if they wanted to secure the best positions."

"Everything about you is part of your branding, about how you are perceived, viewed, thought and spoken about. Great branding enables you to stand out, be memorable"

"Poor quality job-hunting can be the surest way of remaining without work, of being depressed and of feeling that life has no direction."

"It is better to struggle at work you really enjoy than to succeed in work you find boring and which fails to excite you."

"Employers are not going to hire a candidate who is stressed by cashflow and family problems. With this kind of baggage around your neck, you will choke your job-hunting opportunities."

"Employers do not wish to hire victims, rather they try to hire balanced and flexible people who do not blame others for their situation."

"Yes, first impressions do count but every single impression counts. You cannot fake being positive, but you can practise and teach yourself to appear and act in a positive manner."

"An effective HR professional would probably be a mature person, one who has lived and who has been "knocked about" by life. Because if you have not experienced life, how can you share that experience with people?"