Work

Many of us are unsure how to identify the right kind of work for us – or, if we have found it, how to get more out of the many hours we spend working. As well as offering skills training for professionals and teams through The School of Life at Work, we aim to help you gain a clearer understanding of your career potential and find both success and meaning in your chosen role.

Tools for Finding Fulfilling Work

From discovering the kinds of career that might be right for us to gaining the skills we need to work effectively, we offer a range of tools for ensuring the work we do is effective, enriching and meaningful. 

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The Career Workbook

A thought-provoking and practical workbook with exercises to help you discover a career that is truly fulfilling. The Career Workbook is a guided journal designed to help you…
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How to Think More Effectively

A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity. We know that our minds are capable of great things because, every now and then, they come out with a…
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On Confidence

Meditations on the skill of self-belief. The difference between success and failure often hangs on a concept that our standard education system never touches: confidence. This book walks…
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Confidence Prompt Cards

60 prompt cards with ideas and questions designed to help you find confidence and battle against timidity. We too often assume that we must accept the levels of…
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Introducing the new The School of Life App

Get all of The School of Life’s Work and Career content, and much more, in your pocket by downloading now.

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Work and Career in the app

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The importance of psychology at work

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The hard work of being 'lazy'

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Why most news is bad news

Therapeutic Services

Career Counselling

There are few questions harder or lonelier than ‘What should I do with my working life?’ The School of Life offers a Career Counselling Service designed to guide us deftly and humanely towards the kind of jobs in which we can truly thrive.

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Latest Articles on Work

How to Screw Up at Work

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How to Screw Up at Work

One of the greatest problems of our working lives is that we lack any experience of, or instruction in, the…
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In Praise of Networking

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In Praise of Networking

Networking has a bad name. It’s associated with self-enrichment, egoism and snobbery. But it is, in its essence, just a…
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