Anyone used SHK Exec Recruitment, or know any professional development groups?

Hi all,

Has anyone had any dealings, (good or bad), with SHK executive recruitment consultants?

My partner is ready for a change, she is high level management for a large Australian not-for-profit organization.

Her role is wide and varied. She manages a large department, prepares business plans and risk assessments, budgets and performance manages personnel. Her hands-on department running is less these days as her national managers under her take care of the day to day stuff, reporting to her when matters need to escalate.

Other than that, she organizes and produces webinars as well as other periodical publications that need to be updated to the latest technical information etc.

Lastly, she is tasked with a major projects from her director that she needs to take from concept to completion. These projects can be anywhere from 6 months to 2 years to complete. The latest project involved many stakeholders, outsourcing, writing of technical information, collation and publication and is almost wrapped up and about to go "live".

She has an economics degree, a law degree and a masters in business.

Her background in the UK was as an employment law and welfare law caseworker for a UK legal charity before moving on to manage one of the charities offices. We arrived in Australia 7 years ago and she has worked for the place she works for now all that time.

The "problem" she has at the moment is that she is struggling to define her role, she is finding it hard to know what sort of jobs to look for and how to market herself as her skills are wide and varied but generally none-specific.

SHK offer services to help you get a handle on your skills and guidance on what roles you may be suitable for.

Just wondering if anyone had heard of them, or know of anything similar like a network group or professional development group?

Thanks.
 
SHK offer services to help you get a handle on your skills and guidance on what roles you may be suitable for.

SHK is one of many big "executive" recruitment firms around.

Similar services are offered by almost all of them because when they land their candidate a job, they get their money.

IMHO, I thinnk it is really need to work the other way though - what does she want to do?

Once she has some idea, THEN select the agancy based on the area of their specialty (certain firms specialise in Accounting/Finance jobs, others in Legal, yet others in ICT etc)

The Y-man
 
When I got made redundant I went to a really good firm who helped me define what I did, rejig my CV and work on what I wanted to do. For redundant people it's called outplacement services but they also do the same similar services for people who are looking for same thing

It isn't free like many of the recruitment firms but in reality they don't actually do it, they are there to just see if your skills fit a criteria for a position.

It will cost money but it's well worth it if she wants to explore things fully.

Places such as
http://www.katieroberts.com.au/
 
Thanks all.

Y-Man - I agree, trouble is it's difficult to try and work out what area she'd like to go in as she's sort of stuck in a mindset of thinking "Jack of all trades, Master of none". Rather than focusing on an area to move into she's worrying about not being skilled enough to go for a specific role.

Westminster - Thanks for the link. Sounds interesting and is the sort of thing we were looking for. I think if she can speak to a career mentor that has experience of different careers that are out there, and what area she could go into adapting her current skills it would help her focus her mind onto a path to take.
 
Thanks all.

Y-Man - I agree, trouble is it's difficult to try and work out what area she'd like to go in as she's sort of stuck in a mindset of thinking "Jack of all trades, Master of none". Rather than focusing on an area to move into she's worrying about not being skilled enough to go for a specific role.

Become a lecturer...... :D

The Y-man
 
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