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We are pleased to announce that Alix Beelaerts has joined Godliman Partners as a Senior Associate.

Are there any examples of successful Job Sharers in the Asset Management sector?  If so, I would like to hear of them.

Based on my own experience of the sector, it is very rare – particularly at a senior level:  I do not think that I have met even one person in a formal job share position.    Which is odd, when job sharing presents such a good potential option to increase diversity at senior levels.

We are pleased to announce that Godliman is participating in the 10,000 Black Interns initiative by offering an internship in 2021.

This is an extension of the 100 Black Interns initiative launched in the summer on 2020 for UK Asset Managers and now encompasses 20 Sectors (and growing fast..)

In the one of the classic scene’s from the BBC comedy series ‘Only Fools and Horses’, Trigger, a gormless and dim-witted but close friend of Del-Boy Trotter, claims that he’s had his road sweeper’s broom for 20 years.  But then he adds that the broom has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles.  “So how can it be the same bloody broom then?” asks his friend Sid.

Sometimes the same logic can apply to headhunters’ track record…

Anyone who knows me well will know that I lack the sporting gene.  That is not to say that I don’t sometimes enjoy playing sports; but I pretty much never watch sports on TV and only follow sports people or events that make it to the front of the newspaper.

So how did Godliman come to model our “Godliman Rule” for diversity hiring on the US National Football League (NFL)?

Imagine you are out for an evening stroll in Pacific Palisades and, lying under some shrubs near the sidewalk, you see a leather-bound filofax, almost hidden from view.  You pick it up and, with rising astonishment and excitement, realise that it belongs to Stephen Spielberg.   It contains his calendar, to do lists and his address book, listing hundreds of his contacts in Hollywood.   Could this be your ticket to fame and fortune?

We are pleased to announce that Deborah Pridemore has joined Godliman Partners as an Associate Consultant, based in the US.

Some books that we recommend reading if you are in the process of looking for a new role, or starting to think about a move.

There are three categories of  headhunters in the UK: Search, Agency (or Contingency), and Selection.

Selection firms advertise roles and then select candidates from the responses.  Selection is a declining category, and tends to most commonly combined with Agency Recruiting.

This is a guide on how to manage Selection firms as part of your job search.

There are three categories of  headhunters in the UK: Search, Agency (or Contingency), and Selection.

But, even if you assiduously cover all three channels, there will still be quite a few Asset Managers that you will not be reaching.  This is because quite of the few of the larger Fund Management firms have internalised the headhunting function by hiring former headhunters into the Talent Management role.

Hence this is an important new channel that job seekers need to cover if they want to cover the larger global investment firms.