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Health, Sports & Psychology
Success in Interviews - How to Use Psychology to Gain that Job!
Interviews can feel very daunting, especially if it has been a while since your last one, or the job is one you are really excited about. There are ways to help overcome nerves and anxiousness, ensuring that you present your strengths in the best, and most confident way possible.
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Society, Politics & Law
Detecting Deception: Can you spot a liar?
Some money has been stolen - everyone denies taking it but some people are lying. Can you work out who is telling the truth and who is being dishonest? Find out in our interactive...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Cyflwyniad i Bresgripsiynu Cymdeithasol Gwyrdd — Iechyd Meddwl ac Amgylchedd y Gweithle
Sut y gall gweithleoedd ddechrau defnyddio syniadau yn ymwneud â phresgripsiynu cymdeithasol gwyrdd i wella llesiant.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Introduction to Green Social Prescribing — Mental Health and the Workplace Environment
How workplaces can begin to make use of ideas from green social prescribing to enhance wellbeing.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Reproduction, Sexualities and Sexual Health Research at The Open University
Exploring the personal, social, and political dimensions of reproduction, sexuality, and sexual health.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
What You Need to Know About Psychometrics
Employers increasingly use psychometrics in job shortlisting and assessment, to help them make recruitment decisions. Read on to find out more about why this is the case, what to expect and how to be more successful when taking these tests.
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Money & Business
Learn with Start Up Loans
A partnership designed to help UK businesses get off the ground and stay there.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
The Value of Emotional Intelligence in a Challenging Workplace
Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand, use, and manage emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathise with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict. Developing emotional intelligence skills can help us to be more successful in both our personal and professional lives: developing better ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Identifying Values – Finding the Things that Matter the Most to You for the Way You Live and Work
Values are things that matter the most to you for the way you live and work. This article should help you to identify which ones are most important to you.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Reframing Self-Limiting Beliefs
Self-limiting beliefs can often creep into our thoughts and lower our self-regard (respect and acceptance for ourselves, despite any shortcomings). However, even in challenging times, it is possible to consciously change how we think about ourselves, reframing unhelpful beliefs and building more confidence to achieve goals and positively move ...
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Wheelchair basketball player Yasmin on coaching, classification and the cost of disability sport
Yasmin Reeve is one of this year’s Sport and Fitness Student Voice Champions at The Open University. She’ll be tuning into the Tokyo Paralympics, but with mixed feelings, as she explains.
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Health, Sports & Psychology
Feeling Stuck in your Job or Career? The ACT Matrix may be the Tool you Need
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is an evidence-based therapy which offers simple tools to help deal with everyday life challenges, and effectively handle difficult thoughts and feelings, accepting what is out of our personal control and committing to action that improves our lives.