4 of 10 employees want a new job

A recent survey by Investors in People has highlighted that 4 of 10 employees are looking to leave their current job within the next six months, or these employees 43 percent of them revealed that they felt unmotivated in their current role !

44 percent of respondents claimed that they were demotivated and that their managers were not fully supporting of their career growth.

Simon Jones, chief executive said “This research reveals a worrying picture, not only because such a significant proportion of UK employees are demotivated, but because it suggests that valuable employees may be heading for the door.”

If your one of the 4 in 10, why not try looking for sales jobs from BMS-UK our recruitment partner.

 

Interim Executive Management jobs are a popular career choice

Interim Management is a career for those who enjoy a job with challenges and for those who like change. The very nature of an interim management job will require an interim manager to possess both of these qualities.
An interim manager, often called an interim executive will be subject to a variety of challenging, enhancing and intensive experiences with exposure to different industries, products and processes, organizational structures and cultural styles.
An interim management job typically will bring a greater choice of working hours from part-time or full-time work to the flexibility of home working or on site. Organizational politics tend to be less of an issue for an interim manager as they are not a permanent employee.

Interim Management in the UK is now worth an estimated £1bn in terms of the value of fees spent on interim managers. Furthermore, there is a growing trend for interim managers used in more strategic leadership and change management jobs rather than just for short-term gap filling. Reasons for this increase include savings in time and money, important in any business.

Government change has introduced new initiatives and targets that many departments have struggled to cope with. Interim managers address this shortfall and are being used to support and mentor delivery teams through a process of change. Interim managers bring in experience and clarity to high-pressure situations, providing guidance and direction for organisations coping with change.

In days gone by, external agencies and consultancies helped with this shortfall but high costs and disappointing results put many organizations off using them and are now far less popular.
The main difference between what an interim manager can offer as opposed to using external consultancy is experience. Interim Executives are experienced executives who join the senior management team to help the organisation meet targets. Interim managers influence from within rather than the consultancy model based upon external advice. An interim manager will become part of the organisation providing clarity and guidance that can have an immediate impact.
Speed and cost of hire are significant factors, particularly in the cost-conscious public sector as with many businesses. Interim managers will fit into the team quickly without the expensive recruitment process normally associated with hiring at a senior level.

An interim manager will be required to hit the ground running, complete their assignment and then leave. With fees that typically ranging between £500 and £1500 a day, interim managers can often be far more cost-effective than external consultancies.

The different types of job roles that interim managers are being hired for reflects their growing versatility. HR still remains the single most common job function with more than 1 in 4 of interim managers but interim managers are increasingly being used within finance, marketing, IT and senior board-level positions.

Interim management is often incorrectly perceived as a reactive response to organisational failure. It appears that a new breed of interim managers are emerging who have transferable leadership skills that can be applied across all sectors. The implication is that the interim management industry is evolving to become a profession in its own right.

 

Caterer.com Release News Portal

I have been looking at a lot of job sites over the past few weeks, hence why i haven’t posted (plus i been busy in real life). I have been on some good sites i have been on some bad sites, but i thought that this was a really nice site when i found the press release for it. This was how i got to the site.

Press Release has been linked here

While browsing through the hospitality news website it lead me onto  a job board site called caterer.com. This website was really nicely laid out. I had my suspicions that it looked similar to a site that i had seen before and by golly it did! Secretarial Careers had almost the same site, or caterer was similar to Secretarialcareers. However all was well because I also noticed that the 2 sites where part of the Total Jobs Group.

All in all this site is really well designed too. I have put it as a perma link on my blog roll for you all to enjoy

 

What a morning. Blinding sunlight finding its way through the narrow streets and giving a radiant, optimistic glow to what felt like the beginning of a really good day. After a cold and damp winter this was spring coming in with all guns blazing. Walking to the bus stop with the park on one side of the road, and gleaming white regency buildings on the other, was my wake up time, and since I’d started skipping coffee for this fast paced stroll, this kind of weather certainly did the trick.

I take a bus from here on into the city. 10 minutes of to-ing and throw-ing but it’s rarely crowded and mostly leisurely, especially as it gives me time to send a few texts and set up any potential socialising for after work. As a secretary working in a large yet friendly firm I’m fairly unstressed most of the time.

But it makes me wonder sometimes whether I should climb up some sort of career ladder, whether I’m just hiding from any more challenging roles. Working through an agency gives me a lot of freedom, or at least gave me a lot of freedom flitting from place to place with no long term office politics to deal with and things like that.

I pick up a PA jobs section from a newspaper that someone’s left behind on a seat in front of me, and skim through. I’d like to apply for a permanent position, but I’d definitely need to train for new skills. Most ‘proper’ secretarial jobs require a range of abilities and knowledge that sometimes you can’t always learn from just any secretary job.

But the glorious weather has inspired me. I think about the qualifications I do have, and how to build on them. The bus swerves round a corner – somebody’s eager – and I slide along the seat a little. I think of last year’s skiing holiday and the sunshine on the mountains. What a relief it is after those gloomy winter months to finally get some decent weather, and it’s so much more profound in the city when it’s like this. Puts everyone in a good mood.

Careers advice is hard to come by in the work place, and it’s kind of weird for me to just ask for something without offering something in exchange, but I do need some sort of challenge in my job that’s going to be worthwhile and build on what I can do so far.

I’m nearly there now, and from the bus stop it’s just a hop skip and jump from the gleaming office block off the main street. I’m all set for the day. I’m still holding that newspaper jobs section so I tuck it under by arm – don’t want to give my office manager the jitters – they’ve come to rely on me but then again, there’s always the possibility they’d take me on permanently.

 

Just to let you know…

I am still around its just that work and some of my other blogs have been taking all my time away from this one. To be perfectly honest i don’t actually have any interesting news at the moment. Although i have been looking into some other blogs and found some fairly good ones, I have posted them below for you, they are a bit like mine but have much more content and have been around much much longer, hence why i was checking them out  looking for some sort of inspiration of where to go with theis site in the future. Im actually thinking of moving it to another blogging platform cause WordPress is rubbish.

Any way i am going to stop ranting now because it bores me so i am sure that its boring you. Have a great weekend and ill see you Monday!

 

Interim Management or Temporary Management

I have a guest article today that was wrote by D. Hill at Intramezzo and im very excited about it! Intramezzo are a group that i have not mention on this site before today. I have however had a link to them on the site for a while. They are specialists in Interim Management Job recruitment senior and board-level, project management, change management and permanent executive recruitment.

Today, rapid change is all around us and is part of life. Industry requires a more highly skilled and adaptable work-force who can bring with them experience and change. As a result, the demand for interim management is growing rapidly on an annual basis. However, in contradiction to this, a recent poll indicates that more than half of CEOs have never used the services of interim managers and there remains a significant amount of confusion about what interim managers are and how they differ from temporary managers.

Temporary Managers
Temporary managers are predominately in between permanent roles and will be interested in opportunities that are likely to stretch them and thus adding weight to their CV that will improve their chances of success within a permanent role next time around. This may result in a higher risk for clients; and a longer time until value starts to be delivered.

Whilst they may be fine working within an industry they have several years experience within, the question remains “how will they fare in an entirely different place without their usual “support systems”?

Let’s rephrase the question to, how credible will they be? Will you be able to trust and rely upon them to represent you appropriately, not only within your business but more importantly to your customers or suppliers? Are their interpersonal skills up to it? Will they deliver the results?

Interim Managers
In contrast to temporary managers, interim managers are senior executive managers who are immediately available. They have become interim managers as a career choice and are therefore independent, highly flexible individuals who run their own companies and operate with professional indemnity insurance. They are un-biased by company politics and must have outstanding communication and interpersonal skills to successfully deliver results in a wide variety of different organisations. Their credibility and technical expertise has to be unquestionable because they’re expected to “hit the deck running” and deliver results not just recommendations. Some say they are senior executives and consultants ‘all rolled into one!’

Since interim managers can cost anywhere between £500 to £1000 per day and interim management assignments can last anytime from three months to two years, clients and interim management service providers alike cannot afford to take risks. In fact, only individuals who have track records that demonstrate they have the ability to thrive in fresh environments and deliver an excellent return on clients’ investments are taken seriously.

Interim Management assignments are therefore more likely to be higher risk / higher value / higher profile roles. For example often organisations utilise interims when they need immediate support for turnarounds or when there is a sudden departure of a key executive; or perhaps to release others for non-routine tasks as the business goes through a period of discontinuity.

Often though, interim managers are brought in because of their track record for delivering improvements in their particular specialist discipline or industry; for example to deliver synergies following an acquisition or merger or to introduce best practise processes and organisational structures.

Women Interim Managers
Traditionally considered a lucrative refuge for older, mostly male executives, interim management is in fact fast becoming the career of choice for female executives. A recent study reports that the percentage of women between 25 and 39 age group going into interim management was four and a half times larger than men of the same age group.

Female interims seem to find it easy to find regular assignments, with 30 per cent more women in work for more than 170 days per annum than their male counterparts. They also enjoyed greater equality of pay than was typically found in the mainstream workplace, with very little variation in hourly rates between the sexes.

The survey shows that the benefits of interim management seem to be very attractive to women. The flexibility and equality of pay add to the attraction of a stimulating and varied career in which executives have a direct impact upon the value of a business.

Asked about barriers to success, almost half of the respondents cited internal politics as their major gripe, followed by the setting of unrealistic goals or timeframes by the companies that employed them.

Interims seemed to adapt to these weaknesses by redefining the briefs on arrival. In fact, the survey revealed that 57 per cent always or often redefined a brief, with just 5 per cent saying they never did so.

Interim Managers, the survey calculated, boosted the UK economy by £6 billion, with more than half of those polled classing their most recent role as transformational, or working to bring about a major change or turnaround within a company.

Just 16 per cent classified their role as “cover” for an existing role.

More than a third of those whose role was transformational unlocked between £1 million and £5 million and 20 per cent unlocked more than £5 million for the company in which they most recently worked. The average assignment cost to a business is £120,000, it added.

Conclusion

Temporary managers may be appropriate for lower risk projects, but there is a big difference between temporary and interim managers.

Interim managers are executive ‘big hitters’ with more women choosing interim management as a career choice. Interim managers will have the necessary track records of delivering results and specializing in high value / high risk assignments.

They are very practical “hands on” “get the job done” style and even though more expensive than temporary managers, for higher profile projects they are a low-risk solution when it comes to implementing change.