Rob Cugno

About Rob Cugno

I am the founder of Future U Coaching and I’m passionate about helping people find the career they love.

6 Awesome ways a Career Coach can help you transform your career

Are you unhappy with your job? Do you feel like you are stuck in a career that you don’t enjoy? Turns out, you're not alone. In fact, according to a recent survey of 4800 Australian workers, you're in the majority. According to the survey, conducted by Survey Sampling International on

By |2022-02-17T16:33:56+11:00May 18th, 2020|Career Advice, Coaching|

Coaching and Mentoring: are they two side of the same coin?

An interesting discussion emerged the other day on mentoring and coaching. It led to a conversation on whether mentoring and coaching were fundamentally different or are they simply two sides of the same coin. Is it simply the semantics of definitions that make them seem different? So, who decides on

By |2022-02-17T16:34:09+11:00April 12th, 2020|Career Advice, Coaching|

Shine at your job interview to get noticed

So you want to shine at job interviews. You saw that job and went for it. Updated your CV. Wrote a snappy cover letter that addressed all the key selection criteria. And you got the call you’ve been hoping for, the one that excites you and scares you, but gets

By |2022-02-17T16:34:51+11:00March 25th, 2020|Career Advice, Employment, Interviews|

Don’t panic: smash your job interview

Panic is bad. It is debilitating and the mortal enemy of the job candidate in their first face-to-face meeting. In my experience of interviewing prospective employees, I was constantly amazed by how many, perfectly eligible applicants would ruin their job prospects because of panic. Panic made them sound incoherent and confused;

By |2022-02-17T16:35:07+11:00March 4th, 2020|Coaching, Employment, Interviews|

Reasons to paint a picture during job interviews

The two killer mistakes made by people in interviews are: Not providing enough of the right information (missing the point), or Providing too much information in an unclear, incoherent manner (babbling) Generally, interviewers want to hear clear, coherent and well-structured answers to their questions.  They want to hear answers that

By |2022-02-17T16:35:37+11:00February 28th, 2020|Coaching, Employment, Interviews|

The reason why Trust trumps skills in the process of getting the job

As a career coach, I’ve discovered the reason many people don’t land the job. It is because they don’t understand the core quality an employer is looking for when assessing candidates for a role. When I ask the simple question “What do you think you need to do to be

By |2022-02-17T16:35:49+11:00February 2nd, 2020|Career Advice, Coaching|
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