Have you called your Headhunter today?

I am a Headhunter. No, not the dangerous kind who collects their enemies as trophies, but rather the kind who is hired by an organization to seek out the best talent that the market has to offer. Aside from a growing company adding to their team or because someone resigned/retired, I receive calls to assist with a confidential strategic upgrade, meaning someone is under-performing, and my client needs a very private solution to this problem. (This is probably the only time in my life where I will ever feel like anything close to a Secret Agent.)

I like to think of myself as a problem solver. The one with the solution. The one who is here to make everyone’s life a bit easier- at least within the place where they spend 75% of their day. Not only do I find the solution for my client who is in need, but I find a solution to whatever pain my candidates are experiencing in their current position. Whether that pain is a boss they don’t enjoy working for, an unstable organization, or not enough runway to take their career where they want to - it’s all pain. It’s all a valid reason to be open to hearing about what and who is out there in your market.

I’ve discovered that not enough professionals grasp just how valuable a relationship with a good Headhunter can be for them. If I had a dollar for every time a candidate replied to my request to have a conversation about their career with, “Thanks, but I am not interested in anything new right now”, I would be somewhat rich and probably sitting on a warm beach somewhere. Well, I do live on the beach here in Tampa, but I digress. The best time to speak with someone like me, is NOT when you really need me, or you are aggressively in search of making a career move. This leads to the possibility of accepting a position because you have to, not because it’s the best for you in the long run.

The same goes for someone who is in a capacity to be a hiring authority. Make sure you have a relationship with someone like me before you have the need to hire. You know the thing people say about not going to the grocery store when you’re already starving? Nothing good happens there. I could draw some clever connection here to having a relationship with a Headhunter before you really need them, but you understand where I am going with this.

We are best utilized as your eyes and ears on the market. As a candidate, when we have a good understanding of what you want to do with your career, what kind of company you envision yourself working for, and what the perfect role looks like that is so tempting that the offer would be one you couldn’t refuse- this is when we become your best ally. Whether you are a Staff Accountant, and just starting your career, or you are a VP of Finance at a Fortune 500 company- a good recruiter wants to know you and what makes you "tick". 

On the other side of the coin, as a hiring manager, when I know the profile of what an A+ candidate looks like to you- this is when I, your headhunter, become your best ally in today’s job market, and not the stone in your shoe who bothers you with candidates that you won’t care about.

While I do have several clients and candidates that I call just to say hi, or talk about how sunny it is here in Tampa versus the 31 degree temps that they are experiencing in some snow-ridden state- I want the people in my network to feel that when I call, they have to answer. That they cannot afford to miss my call, and that I have something or someone that they absolutely need to hear about.

With all this being said, call me. Email me. Send me a Linkedin message. I would actually love a singing telegram, but I am not sure if anyone does that anymore. Let’s have a conversation about what it is you want, and how it is I can help.

Jenn Bellso
Senior Executive Headhunter 
Lucas Group- Tampa Accounting and Finance
jbellso@lucasgroup.com

4 Key Differences Headhunter vs Recruiter

I have been asked by a few clients recently to clarify the differences between a Headhunter and a Recruitment Consultant. I’ve decided to share some of the reasons with you.

A Recruitment Consultant will typically:

1. Find candidates that are actively looking on job boards and Linkedin
2. Take the path of least resistance (they typically have 5-6 vacancies to fill and will only invest time in the ones that are the most lucrative)
3. Invest minimal time and move on to the next role
4. Charge a fee upon completion of assignment

Some clients like this approach as it can be a quicker turnaround and the lower, no-risk fee charged.

A Headhunter ( if they are a true headhunter and not a recruitment agency masquerading as one)will:

1. Search the whole of the market
2. Not just rely on people who are ACTIVELY looking
3. Invest considerable time in identifying and approaching ALL possible candidates
4. Find BETTER people, not available to a recruitment agency via networking etc

It is a much more thorough process, takes time and comes at a higher fee rate, typically payable in installments.

Both have there advantages and disadvantages and this should help you choose the right method when you are finding your next employee. I hope this has clarified some key differences and I've published my first ever post. Get in touch for more details.

10 years a Headhunter.... What next?

April the 1st I realised I celebrated 10 years a headhunter.

The realisation crept up on me on a drive to a team meeting and I got to reflecting.... for about 5 seconds... "Stop that Martin", I said to myself, "that's VERY dangerous territory - that's what people do when they're at the end of something". At 60, there's a risk I could look at 'slowing down' and that introduces an acceptance of slow, dull, decline and fretting about the price of lawn mowers.

I shuddered.

So I got to thinking....

What if I had to start fresh again? What would I do?

A number of things happened during the day that weaved themselves into a thread that pointed the way ahead:

• I received a new DISC (psychometric assessment). It hasn't changed in 10 years (I also did one when I started as a Headhunter). Apparently I am a DI - Dominant and Influential.
• I had some serious IT issues and shouted at an IT bloke who screwed up. He told me "everything will be alright" before he started his work, and against my better judgement I gave him some unearned trust, and he let me down. Very badly.  I should have trusted my instincts.
• I read a post on LinkedIn promoting happiness. The author, apparently,"brings harmony in your life". She wrote "Stand in front of a mirror and declare out loud “I AM HAPPY” a few times over. I guarantee you will feel daft to start with and you will laugh, which is good". - No. I won't feel daft, nor will I laugh. I will just be late for my breakfast.

And do I want to be 'happy' and 'contented' and in 'harmony'?.....

NO.

I don't want to miserable either. And miserable is accepting things as they are.

There's a massive industry of people promoting calm, peace, happiness and how to chill. But I've never come across anybody to promote the benefits of conflict, edge, vibrancy and contradiction.

I smell a niche and an opportunity....

Harmony is overrated

Let's face it, harmony is dull. Harmony brings an acceptance of what is, rather than a drive to make things better. Harmony is a life of everybody grinning at each other from their armchairs while we all watch Country File.

NO!.... NO!.... NO!....

Get off your arse and do something!

NOW!

Martin Ellis - Edge Consultant

OK. So I may need to work on the title, but I'm not hanging around making sure everything's perfect before I launch. If I were to find myself at a loose end I need a plan:

• I am a high DI (Dominance, Influence) so I should use that.
• That IT bloke I should never have let into my system, but having done so, I felt much happier having shouted at him. More people should understand that pleasure - and we'd also be much harder on people who deliver services 'cos they need it - just look at the recruitment industry in general...
• And harmony is dull and nice. And bland. If it were music it would be The Girl from Ipanema.

If that's your bag, just don't do it around me. Weld your radio tuner permanently to Radio 2, stay indoors and buy your food and hot chocolate online. Paint your walls beige. Mow your grass and read the Daily Mail and Tut a lot. Tutting is important. So is saying "disgraceful" a lot. Stay out of my way. You won't like me and I don't care.

If you've never shouted at the IT guy and enjoyed the rush of endorphins, please call. If want you want to wallow the secret pleasure to be had from challenging the status quo, then I'm your man. If you want to be that person who asks the simple questions nobody else has the balls to ask, I'm here to serve.

I won't make you happy. But I will give you a sense of purpose. You will get life back into your life ("Get Life back into your Life" - Might use that. Good strap line)

Second Thoughts...

Perhaps I should stay a Headhunter. It brings a set of challenges from clients and candidates (and technology!) I thoroughly enjoy. Seeing a job through from start to finish is hugely rewarding. I sometimes wish shit didn't happen, but when it does, I get a real sense of satisfaction digging myself out.

Here's to the next 10 years.

Math Enrichment-The Purpose of Math Enrichment Classes Singapore

Math enrichment classes Singapore are being provided everywhere in the world these days as they are exclusive and have a lot to offer in terms of learning and so much more as well. These offer many high end benefits to individuals in both the short as well as the long run. In truth, most people find mathematics a tough subject to deal with in the first place and for the purpose of getting rid of all the misconceptions in the subject, attending these classes is something that becomes rather crucial for such individuals in the future.

Increased Time-saving

Math enrichment classes Singapore are very important due to the fact that they save a good amount of time. While a lot of people may think that studying maths on their own is possible, it actually is but once they are stuck on something they cannot comprehend or fully understand. Attending these classes becomes something of a necessity in order to score good in the subject. Due to this, the amount of people going for these classes can be seen to be increasing through every passing day. Hence, those who have not yet gone for them must surely give it a try in order to obtain all the top notch benefits they have to offer later on.

Available Globally

Due to increased demand all across the globe, it is very essential for people to know that these classes are being offered on a large scale everywhere. They are easily available and being widely offered to all those who are yet to benefit from it in both the short and the long run in general. This is due to the fact that more and more students can be seen to be facing issues in the process of studying maths on their own. With proper guidance through coaching as well as studying in school, everything actually pays off in the future when people get to achieve the grades they have always desired.

Getting Basic & Advanced Knowledge

For people who are not aware, through attending these classes for the subject, they can easily acquire the kind of grades they want and prefer in the first place. After hours and hours of studying, one simply cannot do their best in exams at times as many aspects of the subject are still pretty unclear and hence, difficult to comprehend fully. This is where these classes help people in covering the entire school syllabus as well as other basic and advanced levels of the subject in order to score high in not only tests, but finals exams in the near future as well.

Reasonable Pricing

It goes without saying that math enrichment classes Singapore are highly affordable for all students in the present times. While they may be expensive in a lot of places of the world, but they are not entirely as expensive and most people expect it to be. Generally, the prices tend to vary from teacher to teacher and institute to institute; therefore, individuals can always go on and choose the whichever classes they prefer. The choice is always up to a person, which is precisely what makes attaining assistance in the subject so useful and convenient in the first place.

The Bottom Line – Are Math Enrichment Classes Singapore worth it?

Mathematics can be an exceptionally challenging subject, which is why individuals need to pay a good amount of attention and they must seek all the guidance they can achieve from anywhere they can get it. Attending such classes for the subject allows them to not only acquire high end grades, but it also tends to give them the ability to choose top notch careers in the long run after they end up scoring high on their final tests as well as many other essential final examinations. 

Apple's iPad Pro - Will it replace your laptop?

Today I was asked by Apple to come in and check out the new iPad Pro that went on sale throughout the country. So without much hesitation, I came into my local Apple store to check out the new wonder. In case you’ve been living under a rock this new model as Tim Cook has suggested is designed to replace your laptop and is faster than most laptops and has an optional keyboard and pencil.

Build Quality

As with every other Apple product I’ve used or own (which is most of them) the iPad Pro feels premium in your hands, while very large. Having recently held the Microsoft Surface Book, the size was very similar to that screen, being in a 3:2 aspect ratio. The screen is very bright and apparently it’s the sharpest display Apple has made to date. At least for my eyes when you are getting into the 220+ PPI range it’s more about contrast and brightness than it is about sharpness and this display is gorgeous!

The IPad Pro is heavier than the other iPads but again feels very similar to Microsoft’s Surface products. The new unit has 4 speakers instead of the usual two at the bottom and sound output is noticeably louder than other iPads albeit very tinny in sound quality with little base. I was also pleased to see that Apple learned from its mistake with the original iPhone 6 Plus and built up the strength of this large unit to make it feel rigid in your hands. While I tried to apply some moderate bending to the iPad Pro by grabbing opposite corners and flexing, I am pleased to report it feels very study, like the new iPhone 6s Plus feels.

Moving over to the Apple Pencil, it is surprising longer than a typical no. 2 pencil and silky smooth in your hands. The Pencil tip feels sharp but not sharp enough to break the skin, and the cap on the opposite end is held firmly in place via a magnet.   I have to admit I was worried when I first learned of the cap when it was announced and thought, I wonder how many of those will get lost? Good news it should stay firmly in place in your bag or purse when not in use. Besides the tip and cap there is nothing else notable about the pencil, its long and really round! Warning it’s going to roll and roll quickly!

Under my wrists and over my fingers was the new Apple origami keyboard.   My first impressions on this keyboard are somewhat better than my initial reaction but only somewhat.   The feel of the keyboard was “ok” but still somewhat plastic, and the back of the case is that brushed micro-suede which looks and feels great.   The keyboard/case is a bit large, and a little bit of a puzzle in terms of how you have to fold the keyboard under the rest of the cover to make it fit on top of the iPad Pro screen.   It’s held on by magnetics to both the edge of your iPad Pro and the opposite side to keep the iPad up right while using it to type with. Keys are evenly spaced with plenty of ample room for your fingers, and while travel within each keystroke is not great, it’s was better than expected.   Surprisingly the Key Lock key does not have a light to indicate if caps lock was on, nor was there a home key to bring up multi-tasking or take you back to your home page.

Usability

The speed of the new iPad Pro was very good with that new A9 processor but honestly I was not blown away by the speed, perhaps because I’ve gotten used to the speed of my iPhone 6s Plus, which is very responsive.   So is it as fast as many laptops? Well I hate to say it, but it didn’t seem that way to me nor was it slow either. Launching apps opened up quickly and the using the split screen and new multitasking interface was very smooth in action.

Of course this being the first Apple device with a Stylus Aka Pencil, I immediately hunted out apps that were drawing apps so I could try out the newfangled device in my hand. Opening up a few Adobe and Sketch apps I tried my hand a drawing with the Pencil. The movement was very fluid and responsive below my finger tips and the screen immediately filed up with colorful lines and brush strokes as I played at drawing, signing my name, and applying filter effects to demo photos. The iPad Pro and those apps worked flawless and felt natural. Without being familiar with these apps, my hunch is I could do more than I was doing but I get the sense a graphic artist would like the experience. When I went back to erase something I wanted to change, I did however not like the fact that the Pencil did not have an eraser. It just was not a natural feeling, to find an eraser tool, select it and then go back up to where I was and now draw with an eraser. After using the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 and Book, their new Stylus with Eraser is the most natural feeling writing device I’ve used.

I went to look for the new Microsoft Office suite for IOS to try those apps but strangely they were not present on the demo unit. So next best thing I thought I would check out were Apple’s own Pages and Keynote apps to see how they would work on the new Pencil. Oddly Apple’s own apps would not even launch on the new iPad Pro and just hung, I tried multiple times to no luck and later in the day I saw updates on my iPhone so perhaps this issue has been addressed.

Moving off the drawing apps I wanted to see how truly integrated the Pencil was with the rest of iOS and the iPad Pro. To my surprise there wasn’t any additional integration. I was hoping that I could use the Pencil to markup say a web page, or perhaps snag an image and then make changes or use it elsewhere. I also wondered if I could use the Pencil to take notes and have my handwriting be converted to typed text. I did not see Evernote or OneNote to try this one so I thought perhaps I can use this same approach with the keyboard to say write an email or fill in a web address. To my surprise the Pencil is just not that integrated with the overall iOS 9 platform to do this yet.

Missed Opportunities

Overall while I like the device, I can’t say I love it. For a company that invented and created a new tech category with the iPad, this just feels too little too late for me.   I’m sure that with the right enhanced apps the iPad Pro will find a good home with professionals, but if you’ve already got an iPad and a 3rd party keyboard unless you want that Pencil I would wait for more features and updates.

The key at least in my humble opinion is to get apps into the iOS platform that are as robust as their desktop counterparts. While I understand Apple referenced these new Adobe, Microsoft Office, and iMovie as desktop equivalent powerful apps, I’m just not seeing it yet, at least for now.

Being critical and familiar with my daughters Surface Pro 3, and spending the past two weeks with the new Surface Pro 4 and Surface book, my perspective of usability has changed significantly.   You see Microsoft has gone out of their way to make the stylus integrated throughout their apps and all of Windows 10. So I can draw in emails, screen grab from pretty much any app with the stylus, and use my hand writing in the soft keyboard and have it converted to text. Additionally because it runs a full version of Windows 10, I can run any Windows desktop APP along with mobile apps.

I’m hopeful that Apple takes the next step on this with iOS10 and incorporates the Pencil throughout the entire operating system and perhaps one day brings OS X into this iPad Pro. With Pencil enabled apps the iPad Pro is not a bad device, it just feels about 4 years old when I compare it to the Microsoft Surface platform and the initial release of the Surface RT. So how’s my experience been in more detail on the new Surface platform you might ask? I’ll save that for another day. In the meantime, what are your thoughts and impressions about the new Apple iPad Pro? Will you be going out and getting one?

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Dell Laptop For Sale!

SOLD! $399 OBO! Used but in great condition. Owner took good care of this computer. Small and light weight.
Dell Latitude E5430 Laptop.
Windows 7 Professional 64 bit installed
14" screen.
500 GB Hard Drive
8 GB RAM
Intel i5 (3rd generation) processor.

Programs:
Comes with Microsoft Office 2010
Adobe Reader.

Laptop case included.

Wireless built in for easy Internet access.

I apologize about the pictures.

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