Are you the boiling frog?
This can often be the case in your career or job occupation that isn’t satisfying your needs. Like the simmering frog you stay where you are, telling yourself things will improve when you know they won’t.
This can often be the case in your career or job occupation that isn’t satisfying your needs. Like the simmering frog you stay where you are, telling yourself things will improve when you know they won’t.
The Hierarchy of Needs was created by Abraham Maslow, an American psychologist, who argued that the psychological health was dependent on fulfilling the needs of the priority. Maslow argued that individuals need to satisfy basic needs such as safety and security in order to then realise their own personal growth and development. The needs in Maslow’s theory are, in order:
The low number of new advisers in the profession continues to fall as more baby-boomer advisers retire each year. The industry saw its sixth consecutive year of decline in 2015, to around 23,900 advisers, from a peak of 27,100 in 2009, according to APFA.
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What got me thinking about all this was a deluge of complaints from UK advisers about the difficulty of getting top-quality staff. In the aftermath of RDR, demand for the very best quality has gone stratospheric. And even when you can find these people, they demand ludicrous salaries and often don’t stay for long.
For most of our candidates, using job boards is not the solution to their job search, in fact our research shows that they can be little more than a time wasting tool. Most job boards have two aspects to them, the ability to search and apply for a job and the “option” of having your details on a CV database.
Trying to decide which career to go into when you finish university? You may think there is only a limited ‘type’ of job on offer for you based on your choice of study.
Have you ever experienced the onslaught of hundreds of nuisance recruiter calls after simply updating your CV on a job board?
It has been a whirlwind ride of emotions but on the whole it has been an excellent journey. I started as a mere business developer and have transformed myself into a manager with 4 others under my wing. I have now been here for almost 3 years and not sure where the time has gone. As they say time flies when you’re having fun!