Career Transition AdvisorY

Corporate transformation and change inevitably gives rise to career change.  A role that in one iteration seemed pivotal, may be redundant in another.  There may, therefore, be numerous chapters in one executive career but the transition from one to the next is all too rarely successfully managed and, not uncommonly, feared.  Achieving the correct balance between appetite and aptitude and between time invested in the search community versus the broader network can seem daunting.  Equally, understanding where one set of skills may be reapplied in another context altogether can be bewildering, especially for someone who has successfully operated primarily in one sector.  

Career Transition Advisory for Corporate Clients

Executive departure is seldom taken lightly by an organisation and a dignified transition is a desirable outcome for all parties.  Successfully achieved transition is an indicator of the strength of the company’s values and is a pivotal foundation of the employment brand.

The Trusted Advisors Partnership (TAP) specifically supports executives going through career transition. Depending where the executive is on their career trajectory or journey, TAP’s support will be aligned to the individual to help them successfully navigate the most effective route to their next appointment whether it be through the myriad of executive search firms, or through a latent network that is untapped, but willing. 

Career Transition Advisory for Candidates and Individuals

The Trusted Advisors Partnership (TAP)  provides tailor made support to those who are transitioning out of one organisation, often as a result of restructure, transformation and change, into the broader candidate market seeking a new appointment.  This is often a new experience and can be a challenging period for many executives, regardless of age or experience. 

Equally, we support those individuals who have decided to move from an executive role, whether it be from a corporate or a professional services career, into a Non-Executive Director or plural career path for their next natural chapter.

Our principal aim is to ensure that every candidate / individual becomes more aware of the transferability and currency of their skills.  On the one hand the aim is to inject a sense of realism into the process while, conversely, broadening the aperture through which the candidate looks at the world beyond their immediate experience.  TAP will take candidates on a journey through the possible to the probable, allowing candidates to explore how their skills and experience can be re-applied and to shape this into a go to market proposition. This gives the individual back some control and instils some potentially lost confidence in an increasingly fluid candidate market.

As social media continues to impact every facet of our lives, an unintended consequence is that it has demonstrated that we have all become active members of an interconnected, yet informal network of friends, colleagues and acquaintances. There is also enormous amounts of commentary around using the network to facilitate career moves. However, regardless of the fact that we are innately tribal, the demographic of senior executives are less well versed in making their network work for them.

Despite the “network” facilitating some 70% (+) of senior appointments, except when a process is required to maintain a governance requirement, and the emergence of effective  in-house resourcing capability in most large organisations, the last 10 years has seen a rapid growth of smaller boutique executive search firms take on the large super brands with some success. The difficulty however, is for the candidate to know where to invest their time and with whom, in what has become an over-brokered market.