Avoid harming your career
After working in recruitment and human resources for many years I can certainly relate to the pointers in this recent article. Speaking from experience, it’s true that what seems like a fantastic opportunity to good to refuse turns out to be much less attractive in the long run. I’ve had many hiring managers calling me very...
Can being ‘rejected’ have a positive effect?
We all know that recruiters don’t get it right 100% of the time. We also know that many employers and recruiter use your past performance or behaviours as an indicator or predictor of your future choices. So if a candidate is ‘rejected’, can this ever be a positive experience? Naturally everyone hopes when they submit...
Recruitment is not a science!
Throughout my 20+year career in Human Resources and Recruitment, I’ve had numerous discussions about the merits of various recruitment techniques. I think nearly every person can think of times when a rejected candidate has turned out to be a ‘star’ or a hired ‘star’ has turned out to be a disappointment. For me, the most...
What’s the big deal about Social Media?
I know we’ve probably touched on this subject before at AdviserHead but it’s a question I get asked about all the time. The easiest way I can explain it is like this: In the old days (and by this I mean the really, really old days) there was a club that started called Toastmasters and their whole raison...
Testing Times for Financial Advisers & Planners
If you’ve been in the financial planning industry for a few years, you’ll no doubt be very familiar with the rising occurrence of technical and psychometric testing that you can be asked to complete when changing licensees. For other professions, this kind of pre-employment testing has been around for many decades however, for the financial...
Tips for Experienced Advisers
At AdviserHead we’ve added quite a few posts aimed at helping career changers or recently qualified people enter and understand the profession they’ve decided to pursue – financial planning. In this post, we’re going to focus on couple of key tips for experienced Financial Advisers to think about in today’s hectic job market. A quick search of...
Personal Branding and Recruitment v2
I know AdviserHead has touched on this topic before (21 Jan Post) and also it’s ‘cousin’ Corporate Branding, but I just seem to be hearing so many examples each day that I had to mention it again. ‘Personal branding’ is such a diverse topic and also very much a popular catch phrase at the moment...
How do I decide on a career or role?
This is a very interesting question and one which AdviserHead has found a range of information on, for example: Financial Planning Association has developed materials; Universities stage regular career information sessions; Private company’s like CareerNav that offer career support; and even just regular ol’ bloggers like us here at AdviserHead are doing their best to help. I’ve also...
