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Diamonds In the Rough
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changing.
have made huge progress in the last 6 months or
The traditional career
are
so, to give you an idea of what this sort of career
trajectory
move looks like.
is
facing
interruption with more and more companies
First up, we have Paul Coombe who boldly decided
using
to take the plunge and leave a career in horse
methods
recruitment as
racing after 22 years! Paul began working for Rob
and
Cotterell at RedSeven in July of last year and ‘hasn’t
LinkedIn as opposed
looked back since’. The year prior to the move, he
to the (let’s face it) rather archaic method of posting
had gone over to work with horses in New Zealand,
an advertisement and requesting GCSE grades
which despite being an amazing experience in
or details of ‘work experience’. This isn’t to say
terms of the country itself, didn’t fulfil him in terms
that going to University is ‘redundant’ in this new
of the work. His career had started to feel stagnant.
age of career development. Studying to a certain
Upon returning to the UK, he took some time out
degree is something to be proud of and grateful
to reconsider his options - an admirable thing to do
for; however, what we want to make clear to our
in this modern age where we seem to cultivate an
readers is that they shouldn’t feel under-qualified
attitude of ‘can’t stop, won’t stop’ when it comes to
to apply for a career with us purely based on their
working - and it was during this time that he met
grades. To ‘qualify’ for a career in Direct Sales, you
up with James Buckley, head of Mantra Marketing:
don’t need a ‘perfect’ CV; in fact we’re looking for
‘James is actually my future brother-in-law, so we
those imperfections that make up a human. We’re
met up, he introduced me to Rob and I started at
looking for a bit of personality. We are looking for
RedSeven the very next day! It’s been a whirlwind
people who know how to engage with another
but I am absolutely loving it and I’m so glad I made
human being, how to empathise and how to make
the move.’ Paul wanted a change. He had had
meaningful connections.
enough of working in a salaried position where he
such
felt stuck and where his lack of agency had begun We are expanding at an extraordinary rate, so we
to frustrate him. Many people never pluck up the
are currently searching for a vast array of new
courage to make a big life change such as a brand
recruits to make up the teams in our offices all over
new career later on in life; however, there is much
the UK. Could this be you? We wanted to share with
to be learnt from doing so: ‘I wanted to challenge
you some stories of people in our team who never
myself, I wanted to get out of my comfort zone. I
imagined their career to take this path, but who
wish I’d done it a few years ago’.
