An interesting conversation this morning with an experienced senior manager. Retaining mortgage advisers in this current market is a priority. Why do mortgage advisers leave within the first year?
1. Is it income?
2. Is it lack of career progression?
3. False promises?
4. Lack of support?
What are your thoughts?
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What is the measurement of a successful career? What criteria do we use to judge someone’s success?
Here’s five to get started –
1. Wealth
2. Awards
3. Trophies
4. Status
5. Title
What do you think?
I want to be the winner!
She howled and wailed for two hours as we returned home after visiting a country show. I am referring to my daughter who after watching a horse event competition decided that she wanted to be a winner and have a rosette. She wanted the limelight and praise from others, she wants to be a winner! We eventually explained that winning had a formula. In this case it was buying a horse (we don't own one), learning to ride, practicing hard and often and then entering the competition.
Later on I thought about her desire for winning and compared to the conversations I have on a daily basis with people who express little or no desire of being a winner in business or their careers. What happens to the desire expressed in youth? Where does it go? Clearly it exists and these people are easily recognized as 'high achievers'.
Is becoming a winner a natural element we all possess? I don't know, but what I do know is, most employers want to hire winners, and a ‘winning mentality’ is a winning attribute. If you are applying for jobs in sales then you need to adopt a winning attitude and express this desire right at the off.
This lesson made me ask myself whether I tried hard enough to win? I pulled up short in my brief examination and decided to make more effort. All I need now is a stallion and some riding lessons. Bring on the competition, I want to be a winner!
It’s Tuesday, but actually it still feels like Monday and that’s because we had one of those great bank holidays! Thank you Banks for giving me my extra day’s holiday. If it were not for you I would not have had any holidays now for the last three years. Yes, that’s correct, just about the time of the recession, which was pretty much down to the banks in the first place!
My boss, who is my personal coach and general life guru (she also cooks my meals and looks after my kids) looked at my Blog and said I was just a moaner, which is probably true. I’ve just started this blog and all I have done is moan. So am I about to put this right? Well maybe but not today!
With all the various forms of communication available i.e letter - email - text - I.M - phone - smoke signals - pigeon carrier, you get my point.
It's virtually impossible not to communicate.
Agreed? Or is it?
Having had a conversation about potential opportunities and agreeing to work with the recruitment consultant, why do some candidates ignore all requests to communicate?
Ok so let's examine a few potentials;
1. You've changed your mind?
2. You don't like the recruiter?
3. You don't like the opportunities discussed?
4. You've lost your mobile phone?
5. You can't get access to your email?
6. You're not allowed to make calls during office hours?
7. You never have a lunch break?
8. You never take a comfort break?
9. You don't have email or a mobile signal at your home?
10. By now you get the point, however I wanted to make 10 points! I'm guessing if you are a recruiter you may have experienced some of the above so we will leave it there.
Candidates are quite right to criticise recruiters who don't acknowledge job responses, emails, calls, feedback etc. So maybe this is the balance, the redress, the ying and yang of life?
Take the ostrich, by now we all know what it's strategy is. Does it work? Is it effective? Make up your own mind. However, short term strategies will usually produce short term results. Anyway the ostrich didn't have a signal on his mobile and couldn't call for help. Come on all you network providers, get your act together and help out the ostrich!
Hey isn't about time candidates started being nice to poor old recruitment consultants?
Well me anyway! Everyday I get into the office and work my butt off. All I ask is for is honesty and for people stick to what you said you wanted to do. Surely life doesn't change that much in 24 hours or less? I can understand small changes but where did all those other job interviews I asked about come from. Oh, I see you omitted to tell me about those because you thought it didn't matter, or you thought I wouldn't help you if I actually knew.
Remember a recruiter generally doesn't receive any remuneration until after a successful placement is made and then it's usually quite a while after the start date and not without the usual chase up. So next time you're planning on giving a recruiter the run around, please remember that most of us have bills to pay and family to feed just like you, so be nice and tell us the truth, it pays in the long run.
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