
Career planning: an old skill in a new context
An experienced project coordinator and project manager is surely an asset to a company. That is exactly what Eszter brought with her career

Getting your dream job: Corporates
In this instalment of our series ‘Getting your dream job’, we share Hernan Gonzalez and Gosia Sztandera’s advice on how to make an impact in the corporate world. Argentinian-born Hernán Gonzalez Merlani works for HSBC, heading up their talent management team in London. He is an accredited coach and enjoys investing his time supporting other people. Polish-born Gosia Sztandera for almost 10 years partnered with companies from various sectors such as, oil & gas, information tec

Don’t get stuck in a job that you don’t like
Natalia Garstecka is currently exploring the ins and outs of financial advisory, while still looking for her dream job… A globetrotter at heart, she took her KPMG work from rainy England to shiny South Africa. She is currently planning an eight-month long overland trip through Southern and Eastern Africa hoping for a career enlightenment amongst others. My journey with Onpartu started... I met Paulina in Oxford in 1999 and we’ve been friends ever since. Only naturally therefo

You receive most when you expect least
Agnieszka Grzesiak Onpartu Cohort: 2016 Mentor: Anna Gburczyk-Shraga Education: Masters in IT & Management Before Onpartu... In her native Poland, Agnieszka was a bank IT Support Officer before moving to the UK in 2007. At first she stayed at home with her youngest child, but once she decided to go back to work, she couldn’t find any. With time it became so difficult, that Agnieszka no longer saw the point in looking any more. She decided to change her career and started to w

How to take the worst decision in your career
Some time after a series of meetings with my mentee, in which we established her values and goals, she rung me, scared that she was making a wrong career decision. She was concerned that she was not going to be good at the role she decided to pursue. It was one of those rare cases when it was a good idea to tell someone the story of my life. Eva, I said, do you know that my first career decision was the worst I could have taken? At school I loved writing, I was a regular at t