The Executive Career Jump Podcast - For Executive Leaders On The Move – Details, episodes & analysis

Welcome to Episode Sixty Nine (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!

This week’s podcast features James Mitra, a fellow LinkedIn Top Voice for Careers.   

James is the Founder of JBM, an award-winning executive search firm working with some of the fastest-growing Tech Startups & Scale-ups in the world. 

He also hosts one of the UK’s most popular business and career podcasts ‘40 Minute Mentor’ which has had hundreds of thousands of downloads to date and features inspiring career stories and mentorship from world-class business leaders, entrepreneurs, and sporting legends.

We have turned the tables on him this week!  In this episode, we talk to James about how he got to where he is today from a background with two parents who were Preachers, how he fell into recruitment, and how he ultimately built a business that aligns with his values. 

There is also lots of discussion around what it looks like moving from the corporate world to the world of startups, mobilising your network, and why it’s so important to bring your energy to an interview. 

Lots of golden nuggets in this episode whether you’re a job-seeker, leader in transition, or a business owner. Enjoy!

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesmitra-jbm/

Welcome to Episode Sixty Eight (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!

This week’s podcast features Sarah Farmer, an executive coach and leadership mentor who helps Leaders & Business Owners build their confidence & skills to enable them to lead with phenomenal personal & business results.

In this episode, Sarah shares her story and how she has got to where she is now.  She talks about how we could all do with a software reset of our minds to help us produce better performance and “get out of our own way”, and she shares some fantastic tips and ideas for job seekers and leaders of all levels. Some great takeaways in this episode.

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-farmer-coach/

Welcome to Episode Fifty Nine (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!

Our guest in the hot seat today is Tj Power.  In this content-packed episode, Tj shares how his studies into neuroscience and technology have led him to some powerful insights and strategies that have a tremendous impact on your energy levels, drive, motivation, mood, focus, connection, and mental health - all essential elements when job seeking or starting a business! 

Tj began his professional journey lecturing in psychology at the University of Exeter and now delivers interactive hybrid training experiences to a wide range of organisations that enhance their understanding of their relationship with technology alongside their disconnect from their human instinct and how this insight can collectively be utilised to enhance their mental health.

In this episode you will discover:

• What good rest looks like and why it is so essential
• Some top tips on getting good sleep
• Why your relationship with your phone is so important to your mental space
• How dopamine affects our energy levels
• How to manage social media so it serves you

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tjpowermindhealth/

Welcome to Episode Fifty Eight  (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!

Our guest in the hot seat today is Mhorag Doig, a leading career coach who is passionate about productivity and workplace wellness.

Mhorag currently heads up the team at the London Business School developing the Alumni Career Centre strategy to support their community of 47,000 Alumni with their continuous personal and professional development.

She is a trained Coach, a certified Belbin, and MHS Emotional Intelligence diagnostic facilitator, and acts as a mentor for female start-up founders in London, and in this episode shares her wealth of knowledge gained from her stellar HR career to date and is essential listening for both job seekers and start-up business owners alike. 

In this episode you will discover:

• What a good “board of advisors” looks like
• Why good career hygiene and tactics are vital at all stages of your career
• Why tough love is important
• What a tour of duty looks like outside of the armed forces!

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mhoragdoig/

http://www.careeriosity.co/

http://www.joinacrew.com/

Welcome to Episode Fifty Seven (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!

Our guest in the hot seat today is Lea Turner.

Lea crashed onto LinkedIn in October 2019 with no prior knowledge of the platform, but her vibrant, personable, and uplifting posts quickly drove countless leads and over 10,000 followers in her direction. She has gone on to grow a massive network of more than 100,000 people in under two years, and 18 months ago started her own LinkedIn training business which hit six figures within the first ten months. 

Lea now focuses her time on teaching others how to build their personal brands on LinkedIn and attract regular inbound leads for their businesses, while parenting her young son, and creating entertaining content across her various social channels.  

In this episode you will discover:

• Why telling a story is essential when creating content
• What makes a LinkedIn profile stand out
• Why recommendations on your LinkedIn profile are so important
• Great tips to avoid burnout when you working for yourself

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lea-turner/

http://www.leaturner.co.uk/

Welcome to Episode Fifty Six (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!

Our guest in the hot seat today is Paul Holbrook.

Paul is an author and leadership-disrupter who, after 20 years managing rapid technology growth in the City of London, decided he'd simply had enough of watching the effects of toxic management. 

From that moment, he decided to spend his time creating a world of better-led people. In creating the Diary Detox® he allowed managers to remove waste from their diary - that they didn’t know was there - and focus more time on getting the best from their people and themselves. 

In this episode you will discover:

• Why leaders shouldn’t see managing people as a sideline to the ‘proper’ job.
• Why Green, Red, and Amber are important colours for your diary.
• How consciously planning your time makes you more productive.
• Why your well-being should be your highest priority and how to ensure it is.

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulmichaelholbrook/

https://diarydetox.com/

Welcome to Episode Fifty Five (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!

Our guest in the hot seat today is Jeri Williams, founder of Smooth Accountancy.

Tired of boring, old-fashioned financial firms who still correspond via pigeon, Jeri wanted to disrupt the sector and bring a modern approach to one of the world’s oldest professions.  

Fast forward five years and Smooth has gone on to win several business awards and works with over 500 clients, including those from the E-commerce, construction, property, marketing, IT, and beauty sectors.

In this episode you will discover:

• Why being a salesperson is so vital when starting your own business
• How Jeri has used social media and video to grow her business so quickly
• How sector disruption can work as your USP
• And of course...how not all accountants are “boring”

Links

http://www.smoothaccounting.co.uk/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeri-williams-fca-99183516a/

Welcome to Episode Fifty Four (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!

Our guest in the hot seat today is Tony Shafar.

Tony is an Executive Coach, working mainly with Finance leaders. His background as a Finance Director and CFO makes him well placed to understand many of the challenges that finance leaders face, and believes that much of what prevents people from achieving their goals is their mindset. Tony now coaches finance leaders to help them understand what is holding them back and what it is they really want and gives them clarity and confidence to move forward in their careers.

In this episode you will discover:

• Why being present is so important.
• Why it shouldn’t be all about the goal.
• How Finance people should be future proofing their careers.
• Why do you have to be honest with yourself at the interview.

Links

www.shafarcoaching.com

tony@shafarcoaching.com

Welcome to Episode Fifty Three (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!

Our guest in the hot seat today is Gabi Preston-Phypers, who is someone who doesn’t colour between the lines.

She is a proud dyslexic, mother, wife, and owner of multiple businesses.

Gabi loves empowering people to get in the driving seat of their lives, believing that no one should ever be a passenger in their life journey.  From a very young age, she wanted to make a difference. 

Her career started in Banking where she stayed for 7 years before moving into the world of new startups - however, she quickly realised that she wasn’t able to influence the change she wanted to. 

So in 2020 she finally agreed to join the family recruitment business Oscar Harrington, specialising in mobile robotics. Shortly after joining the team, she noticed they had a gap in their tech stack that could not be resolved by other providers so they got building and soon unleashed Tooled Up Raccoons into the market to help other recruiters sourcing. 

In this episode you will discover:

• What boolean searching is and how it can help you find the right role
• Why if you have dyslexia or any other form of disability you owe it to yourself to be honest about it in your job search and workplace
• How a video message, as opposed to an email, can work brilliantly in opening doors
• Why focusing on what we are good at makes us stronger
• The pro’s and con’s of working with your partner and why boundaries are important

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriellaprestonphypers/

gabi@oscarharrington.com

Welcome to Episode Fifty Two (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!

Our guest in the hot seat today is Lee McQueen.

Lee is probably recognised most as the Winner of the BBC’s The Apprentice 2008 and was the first candidate to set up a business from scratch with Sir Alan Sugar.

He has gone on to be a successful entrepreneur and is Founder and CEO of  Raw Talent and more recently of Phoenix51, a powerful employee technology platform that enables organisations to make data-driven decisions through every stage of the employee journey. Lee has 20 years of experience in talent acquisition, including in the assessment and competency framework space, and has a genuine passion for helping organisations to select future talent. Underpinned by a core understanding of the importance of talent analytics, Lee is firm in his belief that a data-driven approach will define the next epoch in talent assessment. Lee is a passionate Tottenham Hotspur fan, who is married with 3 young daughters, including identical twins.

In this episode you will discover:

• Why you shouldn’t “fake it till you make it”.
• Why the ethos and values of a prospective employer are as important as having the right skill sets for the role.
• What some of the challenges and differences are in running your own business as opposed to running a business business in a  corporate environment.
• Why he believes his new data driven approach is going to change the face of recruitment.
• Why being able to pivot is vital to business success, even survival in today’s world.

Links

https://www.phoenix51.io/

www.rawtaelntacademy.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/leemcqueen1/detail/contact-info/

lee@leemcqueen.co.uk