As a senior IT leader, you like to focus on the technology that will deliver the most impact. However, if your board doesn’t take these initiatives seriously you can be left scratching your head and wondering why. Nigel Stott shares with us his four steps to achieving respect and influence with the board.
Today Nick is sharing his portfolio of job seeking activities, advice that has helped many people find their ideal role. It is not rocket science and we are sure none of it will be new to you. Some of these activities involve recruitment agents, some don’t, but it is the collective effort across these different avenues that maximises the opportunity of finding the dream job.
This was an opportunity for viewers of the blog to submit some questions to a recruiter. Nick candidly answers the questions presented and shares his thoughts on what great talent is and how you identify it.
Steve is someone whose taken the technical path of career progression. Over the last 20 years he has developed a broad array of strings to his bow. He is a developer, he is an architect, he is a Scrum Master, a team builder, a people leader and of late, a business director. He talks passionately about the role of communication in modern development and his deep belief that the way business and IT work together needs revolution.
Stuart Duthie is an IT leader with 13 years’ experience in senior and director level positions. As a permanent employee and then as an interim consultant, he has helped several organisations transform IT functions and achieve considerable improvements to engagement and productivity. As a qualified coach, Stuart brings a broad array of tools and approaches to his practice, enabling him to achieve these impressive results.
Today Stuart is talking through a specific recent example that resulted in a 36% increase to staff engagement within 9 months, evidenced through internal staff survey. This also had a positive impact on customer satisfaction and overall productivity.
Julia is a leadership coach with over 15 years experience helping people succeed in their careers. She is also a key coach supporting the Assured Selection service from Middletons Assured Talent, providing a first 90 day support coaching support programme to all placed candidates through the service.
Jason started life in accounting before being asked to get to grips with the first office PC. This led to a long and successful career in IT and IT leadership, forging the way forward in a time when everyone was learning what technology could do for business.
Today, Nick is sharing his views on how to write a great CV, formed from reviewing hundreds of thousands of CVs over the last 15 years. We are also pleased to share our template CV to help you in the process of writing the CV.
An interview with Richard Copley who has gained nearly 40 years project management experience with over 20 years of this being delivering major transformational change. Over the latter part of his career he has performed a range of roles varying between building change functions and delivering programmes. He is still greatly engaged by the variety of challenge and opportunity to learn that each new programme presents but also remembers with fondness his days as a systems analyst.
Alison’s early career saw her work across the full array of functions within two financial services business. This breadth created a great bedrock of knowledge and experience that has been invaluable as her career and passion moved in to business change.
