Working with Headhunters

For personal career management and building world-class teams

Brinley Platts, Cathy Holley, Vicky Maxwell & Martin Taylor

16^th June 2011

The Challenge

Whether it’s in looking for your next role or building your team for your current role, sooner or later you are going to engage with world class search and selection.  This is where the headhunters excel and where you need to be at your very best to keep up.

If you’ve been through it yourself you’ll know that working with headhunters can be a nerve-jangling experience. They can tailor a world-class team to any specification, faster than you could imagine, but it can also end in disappointment and damage to reputation. The stakes are high, and the better prepared you are for your part in the process the better the result you will achieve.

You are bound to work with them at some stage if you are going to reach the top so come along and learn from leading practitioners how they work, what they look for, and how you can play their game successfully, both for yourself and your team.

Our Solution

In this challenging and often hilarious workshop we lay bare the career management and headhunting processes and show you the tips and tricks of working successfully with the search and selection industry. You will learn exactly who is driving your career and why you need to take back the wheel, you will learn how to survive the shocking sift, and delight your sponsor in interview. Most important you will learn the dos and don’ts, the things every headhunter hates but will rarely tell you, and the difference that makes the difference at interview.

You will also hear from an expert CIO who was worked with all the top headhunters to build world-class teams and a sparkling personal 25-year career.

Benefits and Outcomes

• You will learn where you are in your career and what you need to do to take the next, breakthrough steps.
• You will gain insight into your own strengths and weaknesses in dealing with the search and selection industry.
• You will take away useful tools and interventions to better manage the ‘key conversations’ at important stages.
• You will develop a specific action plan to deal with your future and that of your team.

	AGENDA
9:00 – 09:30	Coffee
	Effective career management is best approached as a step by step process you need to understand, using identifiable resources to help you build your long-term future. For sustainable success you must learn to build and delegate to world-class teams. Brinley Platts, CIO & executive career coach
11:00 – 11:15	Coffee
	The war for talent in today’s recruitment industry. What do headhunters do and how do they work? What they like and how to make them like you. How you can always ensure you get the best possible service from the resources you invest. Cathy Holley & Vicky Maxwell, CIO and IT team headhunters
12:45 – 13:45	Lunch
	CIO master-class. How a world-class CIO takes hold of an average department and knocks it into shape. How key decisions and stakeholders are managed, directions are set, and the new team arises from the ashes. What you must stand for in the midst of the change. Martin Taylor, CIO, LCH Clearnet (and Cable & Wireless, EMI, Courtaulds)
15:15 – 15:30	Coffee
	Raising your game: creating your personal career timeline and your plan. Q&A and guided plan creation. Martin & Brinley
16:30	Finish

Book through our usual continuing professional development routes. CIO Pocket MBA alumni members can use their seat credits, CPD ticket holders can use their workshop tickets, one-off participants can buy entry to any workshop for £595 plus VAT.

Book now or please enquire further of rachel.onder@ciodevelopment.com.