1. BUILDING CAREER
RESILIENCE

2. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO
BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?

3. DAVID KELHAM
PROFILE
 29 years Experience
 18 years in Industry –
UK and overseas
 4 years in Recruitment
 8 years own business
 Sector knowledge
 Retail
 FMCG
 Leisure / Hospitality

4. DAVID KELHAM
INTRODUCTION
 General management
 Sales
 Drinks –hard & soft
 Pubs Restaurants
 Executive Search
 Coaching
 Psychometrics

5. EXCELERATE
RESOURCES:
HOW IT WORKS?

7. WHO IS
EXCELERATE?
Experienced
Boutique
Networked

8. WHY
EXCELERATE?
Flexibilit
y
Long
term
Alignment

9. WHAT WE DO

10. WHAT WE ARE
PASSIONATE
ABOUT
Connectivity
Waste
Entrepreneurship

11. IT STARTED WITH A .....
..Conversation
 Search and Selection “People meeting
 Executive Coach Training People”
 Career Counselling
 Enterprise and
Entrepreneurship
 Networking
 Local Business
Organisation
 Secondary School
Governorship

12. CAREER RESILIENCE
&
CHANGE
“It is not the strongest of the species that
survive, nor the most intelligent, but the
ones most responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin

13. CAREER PLANNING
Fact:
There are
twice as
many sites
for New
Cars on
Google as
for New
Careers

14. WORK: IS THAT IT?
Historical ‘Job for life’ Modern ‘career ‘
20 years Post
Post
Retirement
Retirement
65 years
‘Walking
around time’ Work Work
Self Employed 50 years
Work
Work Work
Education
Education

15. SEVEN AGES OF MAN
Education
 Education, Education, Education
 Experience
 Personal Awareness
 Team
 Work Experience
 What are you good at? –Do it
 What do you enjoy? –Do it
 What you really want to be?

16. SEVEN AGES OF MAN
Early Work
 Education, Education
 Experience – Competitor;
Alternative; Variety
 Expertise
 International
 Man management
 Mentor

17. SEVEN AGES OF MAN
Later Career
 Deal with rejection
 Plan the Walking around time
 Networking
 Platforms
 Expertise
 Financial planning
 The bottom drawer: Self
Employment
 What you really want to be

18. SEVEN AGES OF MAN
Post Career
 Networking
 Stay fit
 Expertise
 Enjoyment
 International
 Volunteer
 Subsistence

19. WHAT DO EFFECTIVE
CAREER
CONVERSATIONS LEAD
Future direction
TO?
Self-insight
Information
Feel-good
Job move
On-going dialogue
Political
Development
Career skills
Contacts
Retention
Secondment
0 20 40 60 80 100
%
Source: Straight Talking: Effective Career Discussions at Work by Wendy Hirsh, Charles Jackson, Jenny Kidd.

20. FURTHER READING
http://www.johnleescareers.com/

21. GO FILL YOUR.....
... Bottom drawer
 David Kelham
 07976 976810
 david.kelham@excelerateresources.co.uk
 Website: www.excelerateresources.co.uk
 Twitter: Jobs_in_Drinks
 Facebook: jobsindrinks