The Seldon Rosser Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Welcome to the Seldon Rosser podcast. In this series our Directors, Graham Seldon and Katie Rosser, discuss important updates in the job market plus interview experts in marketing and business development and share their experience knowledge with you.
Seldon Rosser specialises in recruiting business development and marketing experts for professional services firms across the Asia Pacific region.
This podcast is part of Seldon Rosser's learn program, designed to help you build your knowledge and expand your career opportunities.
Find more ways to boost your marketing, communications and business development savvy at seldonrosser.com/learn.
Welcome back to our special podcast series, Careering.
In this series we speak with experienced leaders about the unexpected detours in their career journey. Speaking candidly about their experiences, our guest will inspire and motivate, offering advice and suggestions for how to re-route your career when it comes off the rails.
About our guest, Leesa Rawlings Leesa Rawlings is VP Talent Acquisition, Asia for Manulife. Since 2009, Leesa has worked in Singapore for major brands including Mercer, Google, Diaego and now Manulife. Prior to working in Asia, Leesa started her career in Melbourne, Australia. Leesa shares insights from both a personal and professional perspective as a leader in Talent Acquisition.
In this special episode, Katie Rosser & Graham Seldon answer your questions about finding work and advancing your career in the COVID-19 economy. This includes:
- Should I stay in my current role due to COVID-19, even though I feel ready to move on?
- How easy is it to find a senior role in the current job market?
- I was made redundant during maternity leave, will it affect my prospects of securing a new role?
- How do I progress my career in a larger firm if my experience is in a smaller firm?
Welcome back to our special podcast series, Careering.
In this series we speak with experienced leaders about the unexpected detours in their career journey. Speaking candidly about their experiences, our guest will inspire and motivate, offering advice and suggestions for how to re-route your career when it comes off the rails.
About our guest, Dale Bryce Dale Bryce is currently Director - Delivery & Commercial for specialist power & water consultants, Entura.
He started his career in public relations, working with Lloyds Register in the UK and later heading up communications for one of Australia's largest law firms, King Wood Mallesons.
He then took a seven year stint establishing and leading a global capability marketing team at Sinclair Knight Merz, which became part of the Jacobs Engineering Group - one of the largest engineering firms in the world.
Many listeners may also recall that Dale was once the President of APSMA, now ICON.
If you look at Dale's career path on LinkedIn, it's certainly impressive and at first glance looks flawless. But closer inspection shows a gap for a few months mid 2014 between leaving Jacobs and starting at Entura. We focus on this period for the podcast, where Dale went from running a global team and a business with 70,000 people to being without a role at all. How did he get his career back on track? This is Dale's story.
Welcome to the first episode of our special Seldon Rosser podcast series called Careering.
In this series we speak with experienced leaders about the unexpected detours in their career journey. Speaking candidly about their experiences, our guest will inspire and motivate, offering advice and suggestions for how to re-route your career when it comes off the rails.
About our guest, Jayson Williams Jayson Williams is the Asia Head of BD and Marketing for global law firm DLA Piper, based in Hong Kong. He has lived and worked in Hong Kong for six years. The past eight years of his résumé show an impressive career trajectory:
- BD Manager at a boutique law firm in Melbourne,
- Senior BD Manager, Corporate for Clifford Chance
- Head of BD for Hong Kong's oldest law firm, Deacons.
It sounds like a flawless career so far. But what many people don't know is before working in BD for law firms, he founded and ran a multi-million dollar business in Australia, managing a workforce of one hundred across many different sectors and industries. He was a self-made man by the age of 35, until it all went horribly wrong. The global financial crisis (and other factors) devastated his business. And within 18 months he had lost or sold on almost everything. How did he get his career back on track? This is his story.
Thanks to the City of Melbourne for funding this podcast through a grant.
In this special episode of the Seldon Rosser podcast, Katie Rosser and Graham Seldon discuss the 2020 salary benchmarks, and trends in the salary bands by role and region.
To learn more about what your role is worth, check out the 2020 salary benchmark data on https://seldonrosser.com/salary-benchmarks. Of course, these tables present just the data and it's important to understand that salaries differ between roles, regions, sectors, firms and candidates.
We invite you to contact us for a confidential discussion about your salary and potential earning opportunities.
There's a funny and informative show on ABC TV called "You can't ask that!" In this show, viewers anonymously ask questions (typically personal or potentially embarrassing) that many of us wonder about but never want to ask.
We love this idea, because as recruiters, we are frequently asked questions from candidates about a range of career issues, which sometimes they find a bit awkward. So, to help you learn more about the recruitment process for careers in marketing, business development and communications, we've put together this podcast.
You will learn:
- Why you should consider taking a contract role
- Why recruiters don't advertise salaries
- What to do when you want to be promoted from manager to senior manager
- Why you should never sign up exclusively with one recruiter
- How to present your CV when you've had 20 plus years of experience.
So, yes, you can ask us all of your career questions and we'll do our very best to answer them. And you don't have to wait until you're applying for a job - get in touch with Nanik, Graham or Katie and we'll be happy to help.
Welcome to this special episode of the Seldon Rosser podcast.
In this special episode of the Seldon Rosser podcast, we talk about the best job Sydney.
This flexible and dynamic role offers you the chance to:
- Make a difference to the lives of others
- Join a well-respected boutique agency
- Enjoy authority and autonomy
To learn more, speak to Katie Rosser or Graham Seldon.
Job titles are a contentious issue but do they really matter? Would you apply for a job if the title was technically below your current role?
In this podcast, Katie and Graham discuss nuances of job titles including:
- The importance (or lack of importance) of a job title
- Does a job title affect your ability to influence partners and clients?
- Should you apply for a job if you don't like the title?
- Why it's important to have the right job title to attract the best candidates
- Trends in job titles
To help you learn more about living and working in London, Katie Rosser interviewed our UK partners, Totem.
In this podcast you will learn:
- Which roles are in high demand
- Which firms are hiring
- How to get a visa to work in London
To learn more, read our Working in London career guide.
Interested in working in Asia? Listen to this podcast where Katie Rosser and Graham Seldon discuss the frequently asked questions they receive from candidates including:
- Why work in Asia?
- What jobs are available in Asia?
- How does working in Asia benefit my career?
- When is the right time to relocate?
- What is involved in relocating?
In Episode one of the Seldon Rosser podcast, Katie Rosser and Graham Seldon discuss the 2019 salary benchmarks.
Listen to hear Katie and Graham discuss:
- Salary trends in professional services marketing, communications and business development roles over the last two years
- What changes in salary to expect when you change roles or sector
- Frequently asked salary questions from candidates
To learn more about what your role is worth, check out the 2019 salary benchmark data. Of course, these tables present just the data and it's important to now salaries differ between roles, regions, sectors, firms and candidates.
We invite you to contact us for a confidential discussion about your salary and potential earning opportunities.
Join Graham Seldon as he talks to content and social media strategist, Jillian Bowen, about how to build and execute an online authority strategy for your firm.