Personal Career Solutions is the UK’s leading career management consultancy, specialising in helping senior level executives to progress their careers and make the most of their skill-set and experience.
Working with leading businesses, key contacts and aspirational professionals, Personal Career Solutions is able to help you make the best possible use of your skills and specialities to help you find a new, rewarding and fulfilling career.
Personal Career Solutions provides a range of services, all of which are specifically tailored to a client’s personal circumstances. Their trained advisors offer a bespoke, personal service to every client, rather than the ‘off-the-shelf’ approach adopted by many other career consultancies.
No matter what your circumstances or requirements, Personal Career Solutions could help you to achieve your career objectives. Whether you are looking for a change of direction in your career, career management advice or whether you are facing redundancy, Personal Career Solutions’s specialist advisors can provide you with the support and guidance that you need.
If you believe that your current career isn’t providing you with the challenges or the rewards that you desire, Personal Career Solutions could help you to identify your strengths, develop your contacts and use your skills to your advantage to find new career opportunities within the unadvertised job market.
By accessing the unadvertised job market, Personal Career Solutions is able to access opportunities that do not exist elsewhere. It is believed that as many as 80% of senior management and executive positions are never advertised in traditional media, meaning that Personal Career Solutions specialist advisor’s can offer you a distinct advantage.
If you are a current or former member of the armed forces, Personal Career Solutions advisors can help you to make the most of your unique skill-set and advise you on how to market these appropriately to civilian employers.
For those facing redundancy, Personal Career Solutions can assist you in achieving your career objectives by helping you to evaluate your skills, experience and opportunities through their range of Outplacement programmes.
If you are a business looking to restructure your organisation through a programme of redundancies, Personal Career Solutions can provide on-site provision to facilitate the changes, provide compassionate support in announcing redundancies and offer outplacement services to your employees.
To see how Personal Career Solutions can help you to progress your career, visit www.personalcareersolutions.co.uk or visit one of their 20 local offices across the UK.
When we’re comfortable at a company and have had quite a long executive career there so far, it’s easy to stay there indefinitely. However, being comfortable somewhere does not mean you have to stay there forever.
It’s common to decide (in theory) that you’ve done all you can in your current role and decided it’s time to move onto a new one. It’s also common to find that’s it’s a different story in practice. You may find that you’ve been subconsciously – or consciously – putting off your executive search for whatever reason. Perhaps you don’t want to give up the security of your current position or you may decide to wait until the economy picks up a bit or maybe through your own personal circumstances.
You could have perfectly valid reasons for not changing executive jobs right at this very moment, but if you know deep down that you are just procrastinating, why not put a stop in the cycle right now and find yourself a new executive job this winter?
Of course, if you have been in your current company for decades, you’ll want to familiarise yourself with the current economy by doing research into the job market. You can do this by looking into the social media side of things, such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn – it’s basically a global, virtual, and eternal career conversation well worth involving yourself in.
On a more specific level, it’s important to research into the kind of companies you’d be interested in and be completely up to date with your knowledge. Start off researching an organisation by going to its corporate website. Search for the company on Google to find out what people are saying about it on news forums and social media sites – this is where Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn come into play, you can choose to ‘follow’ the company on any of these.
Once you have carried out the initial search on the market, you should have a solid base from which to launch your executive job search, it’s time to leave the days of procrastinating behind and start a new exiting challenge.
The term ‘midlife crisis’ gets bandied about a lot, but why should it be a crisis at all? Think of all the things you have learned throughout your life and career. By exploring the knowledge and experience you have gained, your strengths and specialities can be used to formulate new concepts and ideas, which you can adapt to new networks and industries.
There’s no denying that ageism in the workplace is rife in Britain, but if you can manipulate your knowledge and market yourself as an independent business thinker you can prove yourself an asset to any company.
‘Coming to certain milestones in your life can make you realise that you’ve lost sight of what was important at the start of your career,’ says Simon. ‘This time doesn’t have to be chaotic but can be a transition into a more positive time in your life where you can gain full control of the exact direction your career is heading.’
There are some key questions Simon suggests asking yourself at this time:
• Is it time to make a career change?
• What do you really want to achieve?
• What are your career goals?
• Have you considered self-employment?
• Are you satisfied with your work/life balance?
Career management can help you answer all these questions and make sure you stay focused in achieving your career objectives within a realistic timescale.
Personal Career Solutions understand that senior and executive level individuals require specialist assistant and Simon states that ‘enlisting a the help of a career management company helps to keep you focused and determined during periods of change.’
(This post was originally published in October 2009)
‘Maximising your Career Potential’ is a career workshop hosted by the UK’s leading career management consultancy, Personal Career Solutions.
The workshop is designed for anyone who is seeking:
• A new position following redundancy
• A more challenging position
• To increase their earning potential
• To address their work-life balance
• To make a career change
Personal Career Solutions assist mid to senior level executives find their next position by utilising a more alternative approach. The event will give attendees an insight on how to take advantage of the unadvertised job market and will get them thinking about the resources available to them in order to find their next role – and to make sure it is the right role!
To register for the event please visit www.personalcareersolutions.co.uk/free-career-events.asp or for more information on the services Personal Career Solutions provide visit www.personalcareersolutions.co.uk
