The Executive Career Jump Podcast - For Executive Leaders On The Move
At Executive Career Jump we are all about doing everything we can to assist leaders in making job moves. People going through redundancy or job change are six times more likely to suffer from mental health challenges. It can be a tough time. Our hope is that these podcast episodes go some way to helping listeners understand what they want from their career and how to go and get it! Each episode is hosted by one of the UK's leading Career Coaches, Andrew MacAskill and he interviews a range of experts involved in the job search, recruitment and hiring industries...
EP#069 James Mitra | Corporate Or Start Up - Which Is For You?
Welcome to Episode Sixty Nine (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
This weekâs podcast features James Mitra, a fellow LinkedIn Top Voice for Careers. Â
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.Â
He also hosts one of the UKâs most popular business and career podcasts â40 Minute Mentorâ which has had hundreds of thousands of downloads to date and features inspiring career stories and mentorship from world-class business leaders, entrepreneurs, and sportin...
EP#068 Sarah Farmer | Does Your Mind Need A Software Reset?
Welcome to Episode Sixty Eight (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
This weekâs 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 âget out of our own wayâ, and she...
EP#067 Nick Raeburn | YOU Are Your Best USP
Welcome to Episode Sixty Seven (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
This weekâs podcast features Nick Raeburn, a creator with a passion for helping you tell your story. With years of experience in video production and storytelling Nick is now sharing how to enhance and build social selling skills through his consultancy and an epic training course that flips your company's viewpoint on what social media really means.Â
In this episode, we talk about his career from starting out working in the Mental Healthcare sector to now runn...
EP#066 Neal Mankey | Why We Need To Build Neurodiverse Cultures
Welcome to Episode Sixty Six (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
This weekâs podcast features Neal Mankey, a Director for the Healthcare Practice at Veredus, and recently part of the Capita project team who worked with the NHS on the COVID-19 Bring back Staff Campaign.Â
In 2020 Neal by chance was watching the âOne Showâ and a guest with ADHD triggered him to explore his own issues and was as a subsequence diagnosed with ADHD combined with a major depressive disorder which has been with him most of his pro...
EP#065 Mike Richards | Success Leaves Clues
Welcome to Episode Sixty Five (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
This weekâs podcast features Mike Richards who owns and runs the Treasury Recruitment Company, a highly successful niche global recruitment business. He regularly speaks at global conferences on topics such as the power of personal branding and how to attract, manage and retain talent, as well as hosting the popular podcast where he interviews treasury professionals about their careers.Â
Mike is somebody that believes that building a business is all about doing the right thing, about hone...
EP#064 Mark Adamoulas | If People Thrive, The Business Will Thrive
Welcome to Episode Sixty Four (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Mark Adamoulas is a top performance coach and psychologist who strongly believes in having a work-life âblendâ as opposed to balance.
The episode looks at culture, habits, and what a good leader looks like in terms of presence and empathy and how if your people thrive then your business will thrive.Â
Having worked with some high-profile sporting teams such as Manchester United and Formula 1, he dispels some of the myths around what works when you're equating sport...
EP#063 Darren Ledger | Are You the CEO Of Your Job Search Process?
Welcome to Episode Sixty Three (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Darren Ledger believes that recruitment is broken - that it's not working for clients, job seekers, or candidates and frankly it's not working for recruitment companies - so he's very opinionated on where the industry needs to go and how it needs to evolve.Â
In todayâs straight-talking episode we delve further into that topic as well as what Darrenâs predicting is going to happen now in the new world of work. We also discuss being a digi...
EP#062 Liz Hamlet | Igniting The Spark Back Into Your Career
Welcome to Episode Sixty Two (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Our guest in the hot seat today is Liz Hamlet. Liz is a Coach, Strategist, Speaker & Communication expert helping leaders lead better, get laser-focused & leverage their success to spark possibility, motivation & momentum.
After an extensive career in the corporate world of financial services and housing, she pivoted and launched her own business, Spark Succeed Coaching, and Consulting, on the first day of lockdown in 2020. Her tremendous energy really lives up to her company name!
Liz...
EP#061 Caitlin Rozario | You Can Only Be Your Best When You Rest
Welcome to Episode Sixty One (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Our guest in the hot seat today is Caitlin Rozario, who with her Co-founder Will have founded an organisation âInterludeâ, that helps with productivity by monitoring and it is a really fascinating conversation around why they have set up the business, what they are hoping to achieve, why breaks are so important, and why we are experiencing so many challenges with peopleâs wellness, burnout, and people generally just not getting done, what they need to get done. Â
We di...
EP#060 Cheryl Thompson | How Can You Build More Courage?
Welcome to Episode Sixty (Season Four) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Our guest in the hot seat today is Cheryl Thompson. Â
Cheryl is a âCourage Coachâ and we all need more courage to battle back the internal critic, the imposter syndrome, and to be able to step through the fear.
In this episode, we cover some fantastic stuff around her own career journey, how leadership intervention really matters and some of the challenges she has faced. Her journey and development have led her to now help other people...
EP#059 Tj Power | How To Manage Your Social Media & Tech For A Better Head Space
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!Â
Tj began his professional journey lecturing in psychology at the University of Exeter and now delivers interactive hy...
EP#058 Mhorag Doig | Love What you Do âŚ.. Find Your Crew
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 i...
EP#057 Lea Turner | The Queen Of LinkedIn Shares Her Story And Some LinkedIn Gold
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.Â
L...
EP#056 Paul Holbrook | Is Your Diary Toxic?
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.Â
From that moment, he decided to spend his time creating a world of better-led people. In creating the Diary DetoxÂŽ he allowed managers to remove waste from their diary - that they didnât know was...
EP#055 Jeri Williams | How An Accountancy Rebel Grew An Award-Winning Business
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 worldâs oldest professions. Â
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.
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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...
EP#053 Gabi Preston-Phypers | Get In The Driving Seat Of Your Life
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 doesnât 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.Â
Her career started in Bank...
EP#052 Lee McQueen | A Data-Driven Approach To Hiring & Leadership
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 BBCâs 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 eve...
EP#051 Taqdees Shah | Employers Need To Start Being Evolutionary To Attract The Best Talent
Welcome to Episode Fifty One (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Our guest in the hot seat today is Taqdees Shah.
Taq is an ex-legal eagle who jumped ship to become a Recruiter 5 years ago. In that time, sheâs explored the world of agency life and internal recruitment.Â
Being made redundant during Covid-19 gave her the inspiration to start her own business, Centric Consultancy Ltd, specialising in Recruitment Strategy. She now helps businesses cut out the fancy frills in their hiring process, saving them time and...
EP#050 Ben Khosravi | Humanising the hiring process every step of the way
Welcome to Episode Fifty (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Our guest in the hot seat today is Ben Khosravi
Ben is one of the Co-Founders of The Niche Partnership â a recruitment agency doing things a little differently. With almost a decade of recruitment experience and several yearsâ specialising in the accountancy and finance sector, Ben is on a mission to humanise the hiring process. Heâs all about busting myths of the recruitment industry, calling out bad practice,s and providing his network with next-level advice. All whilst...
EP#049 Andrew MacAskill, Neil Laybourn and Sonya Barlow | The Importance Of Focusing On Mental Health In The New World of Work 2.0
Welcome to Episode Forty Nine (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
This weekâs episode is a little different as it was a âliveâ with two of my fellow LinkedIn Changemakers Neil Laybourn and Sonya Barlow discussing how the world of work is changing like never before and what does version 2.0 looks and feel like. It was great to welcome lots of people from the ECJ community and discuss their questions with my fellow Changemakers.
Neil started his career as a Fitness Instructor/Personal Trainer however his life change...
EP#048 Thomas Dove | How A Headhunter Can Help Your Job Search
Welcome to Episode Forty-Eight (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Our guest in the hot seat today is Thomas Dove.
Thomas is one of the Co-Founders of Fraser Dove International who are a talent consultancy operating across the life science industry.
 Thomas has a background in Executive Search but he is proud to provide more than a traditional recruitment service. Frazer Dove has been providing cutting-edge talent solutions and insight to organisations at all stages of their journey since starting in 2013.
In this ep...
EP#047 Dr. Chris Walton | How to Clear Your Anxiety, Fear and Self-Doubt and Optimise Your Self-Belief and Confidence when Looking for a New Job
Welcome to Episode Forty-Seven (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Our guest in the hot seat today is Dr. Chris Walton PhD.
Chris is a Doctor of Integrative Medicine and a Performance Psychologist who Specialises in Personal Change and Peak Performance. Chris has trained 6 x World Champions, Olympic and Elite Athletes, and 100âs of Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders to Peak Performance.Â
He is also Best-Selling author of:
The Gamma Mindset â Create World Champion Self-Belief in 5 Minutes Per Day.
Peak Performance in 60 Seconds â The 4 Es...
EP#046 Jules Eustance | How To Become The Leader You Want To Be!
Welcome to Episode Forty-Six (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Our guest in the hot seat today is Jules Eustance.
Jules is the Founder of The Corporate Success Co. She creates leaders worth following, teams people want to be part of, and businesses people want to work for.
Jules works hard to UNLEASH THE POTENTIAL in PEOPLE.
In this episode you will discover:
The type of leader you are and the type of leader you want to be
How...EP#045 Matt Phelan | A Job You Love NEVER Feels Like Work
Welcome to Episode Forty-Five (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Our guest in the hot seat today is Matt Phelan.Â
Matt Phelan is a Co-Founder of the Happiness Index. Matt is on a mission to improve the way organisations treat people. Matt is the Founder of âThe Happiness and Humans Communityâ, host of âThe Happiness and Humans Podcastâ, and author of âFreedom To Be Happy: The Business Case for Happinessâ.
In this episode you will discover:
Leadership lessons we can learn from England Manager, Gare...EP#044 James Osborne | Learn To Love Your Recruiter...And Get More Out Of Them!
Welcome to Episode Forty Four (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Our guest in the hot seat today is James Osborne. James is the Co-Founder and Chairman of The Recruitment Network (TRN) and he helps recruitment organisations to drive performance and profitability with purpose.Â
Outside of TRN, James works as a Non-Executive Director to a number of fast-growing, market-leading recruitment businesses. James is also involved with a number of charities, and he is an Ironman Triathlete!
In this episode you will discover:
How (g...EP#043 Diana Wu David | Future Proof Your Career In The New World Of Work
Welcome to Episode Forty Three (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Our guest in the hot seat today is Diana Wu David. Diana is the Founder of Future Proof Labs, a âFuture of Workâ Strategist, Faculty @Financial Times, an Author, Keynote & TED Speaker, and Board Director.
A former Financial Times executive, Diana is a consultant on the future of work for boards andÂ
CEOs. Her clients have included JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, London Stock Exchange, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, Wharf, Exped...
EP#042 David Perry | How To âGuerillaâ Your Job Search
Welcome to Episode Forty Two (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Our guest in the hot seat today is David Perry. David is a recruiter, job search coach, author, and a sought-after business and career motivational speaker.
He has written seven books including Hiring Greatness, Executive Recruiting for Dummies, and Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters 3.0.
David teaches companies not only how to hire the right people (and keep them), but also candidates on how to make business decisions that will shape their careers.Â
I...
EP#041 Natalie Louise | Three Steps To Improving Your Life, Health and Happiness
Welcome to Episode Forty One (Season Three) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Our guest in the hot seat today is Natalie Louise. Natalie is a Registered Naturopathic Nutritional Therapist offering corporate wellness workshops and education on health in the workplace. In her previous life, she worked as a City Of London-based marketeer in the corporate world for 10 years and struggled personally with exhaustion, digestive issues, and migraines. She decided to make massive changes in her life to heal herself and now shares that experience with the people she works with. Â
EP#040 Rachel Power | How To Find Your Self-Confidence And Get Off Your Hamster Wheel
Welcome to Episode Forty (Season Two) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Our guest in the hot seat today is Rachel Power. Rachel is a Licensed Career Coach, an experienced Trainer & Facilitator, and Transformation Consultant. Rachel spent 20 years in corporate procurement and now she helps mid-career managers find the self-confidence to get off the hamster wheel at work and get the job satisfaction they deserve.
In this episode you will discover:
How you can get off the hamster wheel How to get clear on the starting point a...EP#039 Gary Wills | How To Come Out Of Furlough...Fighting!
Welcome to Episode Thirty Nine (Season Two) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Today our guest in the hot seat is Gary Wills. Gary is an experienced recruiter of over 20 years in the IT sector who found himself furloughed at the beginning of the pandemic. Gary decided to set up a non for profit initiative to improve the mental wellbeing of the job searcher and people on furlough. The project has since gone on to become recognised and awarded "The point of Light" by the UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson.
...
EP#038 Hannah Mason | How Can I Make My CV Stand Out In A Crowded Job Market?
Welcome to Episode Thirty Eight (Season Two) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Today our guest is Hannah Mason. Hannah is a CV Writer, Interview Coach and Job Search Strategist and Founder of The English Meeting Room. With a background in international recruitment, her passion is to help people land jobs they love. Hannah shares her job search and CV writing advice on LinkedIn where she has grown a following of over 590k. She was recently named a âLinkedIn Top Voiceâ for careers and job search advice and can also be found shar...
EP#037 Mark Badley | Why âWorking From Homeâ Could Spell The End For Our Cities...
Welcome to Episode Thirty Seven (Season Two) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Today our guest is Mark Badley. Mark is the Managing Director of Ronin who specialise in the recruitment of qualified Procurement and Sourcing professionals across the UK. Mark has worked in the recruitment industry for over 20 years and created Ronin to provide an innovative and progressive approach to traditional recruitment.Â
In this episode you will discover:
Why Zoom should never replace the traditional workplaceThe REAL impact of homeworking on our economy and our citiesWhat is...EP#036 Jessica-Leigh Suffolk | How To Be MORE Authentic and Avoid Being Seen As Fake...
Welcome to Episode Thirty-Six (Season Two) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Today our guest is Jessica-Leigh Suffolk. Jessica is an Accredited Business & Personal Coach using her years of experience in search and selection to set up the People & Culture practice with Tessiant a Business Change and Transformation Management Consultancy. Jess is an advocate of both lifelong learning and the âPeople, Purpose, Profit Movementâ and has recently completed a Sustainable Business Strategy course with Harvard Business School online.Â
Jessica advises business leaders on talent acquisition, retention, and team structure.
...
EP#035 Fiona Hathorn| How Women And Other Minorities Can And Must Get Into The Boardroom
Welcome to Episode Thirty-Five (Season Two) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Today our guest is Fiona Hathorn. Fiona is the CEO of Women On Boards UK â an organisation committed to accelerating women into non-executive director roles.Â
In addition, Fiona is an Advisory Board Member to Spktral (a technology company that helps organisations simplify the gender pay gap reporting process), advisor to Peel Hunt (mid-cap stockbroker), and Chair of Hanx's Board Nominations Committee (FMCG start-up). She is an expert in the areas of Governance, Regulation, and Talent Management who has sat...
EP#034 Dylan Roberts | Insights Into The New World Of Human Resources
Welcome to Episode Thirty Four (Season Two) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Today our guest is Dylan Roberts. Dylan is NOT your âaverage HR guyâ! Instead, Dylan works with founders of fintechâs and scaling technology businesses primarily to deliver a higher return on investment from their people. He works as a âChief People Officerâ or âPeople Partnerâ within these companies and provides them with proven expertise to realise their commercial potential through their teams whilst at the same time enhancing their peoplesâ wellbeing and value. Dylan is an accredited platinum member of HRi, t...
EP#033 Ben RainforthGott | Put The âHUMANâ Back Into Human Resources...
Welcome to Episode Thirty Three (Season Two) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast with your host, Andrew MacAskill!
Today my guest is Ben RainforthGott. Ben is an experienced Human Resources Director with over 20 years âin the trenchesâ on both sides of the table and across the globe. He is described as an âagitatorâ in HR because of his progressive approach to how employees should be viewed and treated in the new world of work. Like many people, Ben found himself in recent months considering âcontractâ and âinterimâ HR roles and consultancy and having to adapt his own skills to win th...
EP#032 Lola Brocklesby | Free Up Your Mind And Focus On What YOU Want...
Welcome to Episode Thirty Two (Season Two) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast!Â
Today my guest is Lola Brocklesby. Lola is a Career Change Coach and works with mid-career professionals who are great at what they do but have reached a point in their career where they no longer enjoy what theyâre doing and are now ready to find a career with passion and purpose! She helps people just like you to interview like a boss and land your dream job...
If you are maybe stuck in a rut in your current job or not...
EP#031 Alex Coates | How To Get The Best Out Of Your Recruiter!
Welcome to Episode Thirty One (Season Two) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast!Â
Today my guest is Alex Coates. Alex is an experienced Sales Consultant, Recruiter an now an Account Executive for JobAdder in the UK. Alex works with recruitment agencies to make the hiring process easier for their clients and candidates through technology.
Before Alex went to work with JobAdder he, like a lot of people, found himself without a job and back on the open job market. In this episode Alex discusses his experiences as a job seeker and transition to a different r...
EP#030 Special Episode | What Is âThe Great Resignationâ And What Does It Mean For You?
Welcome to the extra special episode number Thirty (Season Two) of the Executive Career Jump Podcast! There are many people talking about a large wave of resignations due to how people are feeling in their work post-Covid. In this recording of our LIVE broadcast we are going to discuss this red hot topic, âThe Great Resignationâ.Â
We have a panel of guests joining our host, Andrew MacAskill. They are:
Helen Joy of People Spark, a management and leadership consultancyBusiness âSat Navâ coach - Gill Gayk.Diversity, Recruitment and Leadership thought leader, author and speaker- Jackie HandyWe are...
