Not Actively Looking Podcast series: Recent Episodes

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Welcome to the Not Actively Looking Podcast. Host Anthony Harling is joined each episode by experts in executive career management and transition.

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In this exclusive Not Actively Looking podcast, hosted by The CV & Interview Advisors, take you through how to use Personal Branding and Thought Leadership to…

• Significantly enhance your career prospects
• Attract better jobs at a higher salary
• Improve your performance within your current role
• Magnetically attract business and career opportunities

As an Executive, you will have some form of status and profile within (and maybe beyond) your industry. The more senior you become, the more important your Personal Brand becomes. Your status / profile is important when going about your day to day business activities, but it is also crucial for career development and job seeking.

This podcast will show you some simple steps you can take to nurture and protect your personal brand and harness thought-leadership to enhance your profile, reputation and career prospects.

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This 50minute podcast - led by headhunter Anthony Harling with our special guest Fiona Hathorn, CEO of Women on Boards UK - will provide leading-edge information on the realities and benefits of joining a board of directors.

Specifically aimed at experienced professionals and executives, this will be much more than a boring top 10 tips session – previous webinars have been described as “life-changing”.

This fast-paced and engaging discussion is for anyone who is considering developing their senior leadership career:
✔️ What do you need?
✔️ Financial literacy
✔️ Change programmes
✔️ Collaborative working.

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Join headhunter Anthony Harling and networking expert Stuart Lindenfield to learn how to better network with your professional peers.

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It’s all there for the taking. That sense of ‘might as well go for it’, ‘nothing to lose’, ‘if not now, when’. But many senior executives need guidance, honesty and accountability to move themselves forward in a secure and confidential bubble.

Amid the Coronavirus Crisis, Graeme Godrey’s coaching methods are defying the negative climate, bringing about powerful change and spurring action with an unprecedented outpouring of positive results in a short space of time.

It’s about finding your EDGE. Often the difference between winning and losing an opportunity is in the tiniest detail. Find your own unique winning formulae to get you over the line.

Just as a coach is an integral part of any top-level sporting professional’s team, as a Business and Executive coach, Graeme is committed to helping you, not only reach the top of your game, but also exploring and addressing many other areas including:
✔️ Money
✔️ Your Edge
✔️ Vision
✔️ Passion
✔️Energy
✔️ Mindset
✔️ Skillset
✔️ Strategy

His tried and tested techniques and methodology are ripe for these times. Graeme is “passionate about coaching ambitious, executives, entrepreneurs and professionals with a blend of strategic and mindfulness practices to bring about success, balance and growth – professionally and personally.”

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This 30-minute podcast - led by The Independent Executive, Simon Berry, who has worked with over 3500 people in your situation - will provide leading-edge information on interim management.

Specifically aimed at experienced professionals and executives, this will be much more than a boring top 10 tips session – previous webinars have been described as “life-changing”.

✔️ Do you enjoy a challenge, variety, change?
✔️ Do you long to do the work you really enjoy?
✔️ Would you love to be free of destructive corporate politics?

If this sounds like you, you may well be suited to interim management as the way forward in your career.

Expect to touch upon:
✔️ Your value proposition
✔️ Your target markets and how to get in front of them
✔️ The do’s and don’ts of going direct and through Interim Service Providers (agencies)
✔️ Interim CVs and LinkedIn profiles
✔️ Building compelling proposals

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This 25-minute episode - led by Bill Mann, The Keep Calm Guy - will provide leading-edge information on identifying hidden job opportunities.

Specifically aimed at experienced professionals and executives, this will be much more than a boring top 10 tips session – previous podcasts have been described as “life-changing”.

This fast-paced and discursive podcast will help you:
✔️ Identify hidden job opportunities.
✔️ Make a success of your job search.
✔️ Be in the strongest possible position to secure your next role.

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This 30min masterclass - led by executive coach Nathalie Metcalf - will provide leading-edge information about finding the perfect job for you.

Specifically aimed at experienced professionals and executives, this will be much more than a boring top 10 tips session – previous webinars have been described as “life-changing”.

This fast-paced and engaging episode is for executives who want to:
✔️ Transform their career in some way
✔️ Consider a new career direction or pivot
✔️ Find the right job for them. 

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This exclusive career workshop (podcast) is brought to you by Not Actively Looking, experts in executive career management and leaders on all things related to finding a new job and enhancing your career.

This podcast - led by headhunter Anthony Harling - will provide leading-edge information about how to create your career story, an objective narrative that will help you get more and better job opportunities.

Specifically aimed at experienced professionals and executives, this will be much more than a boring top 10 tips session – podcasts have been described as “life-changing”.

This fast-paced and engaging podcast will help you:
✔️ Get an objective view of your career
✔️ Turn this into a crisp narrative
✔️ Apply this across your personal brand
✔️ Utilise this at interview

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Don’t apply for another Interim, NED or Consultancy role until you’ve attended this webinar!

Join us for an action-packed live webinar all about developing ‘brand you’ and a winning-work strategy to make 2021 your best year yet.

This session is specifically aimed at Contractors, Consultants and Interim Managers and we’ll be covering everything you need to know to equip yourself for winning work including CV best practice for 2021, LinkedIn profiles, networking, thought-leadership and advanced interview technique.

This session will give you the definitive blueprint for winning work in 2021.

In this 90 min session, we will cover:

✔️ How to raise your profile, use thought-leadership and network into a role
✔️ How to excel in interviews, using advanced interview techniques
✔️ How to transform your CV into a powerful business case
✔️ Why you need a CV that is different to a permanent job seekers’ CV
✔️ How to use marketing principles to improve your CV and LinkedIn / online profile
✔️ How to use LinkedIn as a tool for lead generation and targeting decision makers
✔️ Our research on CV optimisation for Applicant Tracking Systems
✔️ Why you should consider having a website

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Do you want more interviews, for better jobs, with higher remuneration? This exclusive webinar, specifically for Executives will give you the blueprint for turbo-charging your career and maximising your income.

Hosted by The CV & Interview Advisors – international speakers and thought-leaders on personal branding, self-marketing and executive career enhancement, we will provide a unique and highly insightful twist on how to develop a complete job hunting strategy to help you sell yourself and secure a top paying job.

We’ll be covering the following:

✔️ The importance of Personal Branding and why ‘Brand You’ matters
✔️ The marketing techniques used by highly successful executive job seekers
✔️ The CV writing formula that is getting some job seekers a 500% increase in success
✔️ Creating a LinkedIn profile that magnetically attracts recruitment decision makers
✔️ How to network into a job and avoid over-reliance on recruitment agencies
✔️ Advanced interview technique and why 95% of people get interviews spectacularly wrong
✔️ How to raise your profile and use thought-leadership to turbo boost your career

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This exclusive career workshop (webinar) is brought to you by Not Actively Looking, experts in executive career management and leaders on all things related to finding a new job and enhancing your career. This 30 minute masterclass - led by headhunter Anthony Harling - will provide leading-edge information on unlocking your career story to make your job search more effective.

This fast-paced and engaging masterclass will help you:
✔️ Take an objective view of your career.
✔️ Make sense of your career story.
✔️ Reflect this through your personal brand.
✔️ And, at interview.
✔️ Make your job search more effective.

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This 60-minute webinar - led by executive coach Kenneth Andrew - will provide leading-edge information about becoming a Non-Executive Director (NED).

Specifically aimed at experienced professionals and executives, this will be much more than a boring top 10 tips session – previous webinars have been described as “life-changing”.

This fast-paced and engaging webinar is for executives who want to learn:
✔️ How to secure your first independent board role
✔️ How to get your personal brand right for NED roles
✔️ About the application and interview processes
✔️ How to take your career in a new direction

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Join executive coach Liz Woolman and Not Actively Looking's Anthony Harling as they explore how to leverage your professional network more effectively.

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This 60-minute webinar, led by experienced headhunters Anthony Harling and Christina Campbell, will provide leading-edge information on executive search and how to leverage headhunters to get more and better job opportunities.

This fast-paced and engaging webinar will help you:
✔️ Identify relevant executive search firms for your sector
✔️ Engage with headhunters effectively and build fruitful long-term relationships
✔️ Access more and better job opportunities.

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Now's the time to plan your career. But, how do you plan in times of extreme uncertainty?

Bill Mann, The Keep Calm Guy, will leads a one-hour masterclass on Career Planning in a time of extreme uncertainty.

During normal times you don’t know, for certain, where or when opportunities will arise – but you can see career paths and progression, and anticipate and prepare. In the current environment the future of businesses and whole industries is unknown. The only certainty is that we will get through this and the future will be different – a new normal. There will be opportunities - be prepared. Get In Position and be ready.

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This 60-minute monthly networking webinar, led by networking expert Stuart Lindenfield, will provide leading-edge information on effective professional networking.

Specifically aimed at experienced professionals and executives, this will be much more than a boring top 10 tips session – previous webinars have been described as “life-changing”.

This fast-paced and engaging webinar will help you:
✔️ Solve networking blocks
✔️ Expand your executive network
✔️ Leverage your professional network to further your executive career.

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This masterclass is aimed at the Executive who desires to move to a place beyond where they are now. Graeme Godfrey’s powerful coaching techniques and methodology are ripe for these times – turning the laws of success on their head. 

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This 60-minute webinar - led by The Independent Executive, Simon Berry, who has worked with over 3500 people in your situation - will provide leading-edge information on interim management. Specifically aimed at experienced professionals and executives, this will be much more than a boring top 10 tips session – previous webinars have been described as “life-changing”.

✔️ Do you enjoy a challenge, variety, change?
✔️ Do you long to do the work you really enjoy?
✔️ Would you love to be free of destructive corporate politics?

If this sounds like you, you may well be suited to interim management as the way forward in your career.

Expect to touch upon:
✔️ Your value proposition
✔️ Your target markets and how to get in front of them
✔️ The do’s and don’ts of going direct and through Interim Service Providers (agencies)
✔️ Interim CVs and LinkedIn profiles
✔️ Building compelling proposals

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This exclusive career workshop (webinar) is brought to you by Not Actively Looking, experts in executive career management and leaders on all things related to finding a new job and enhancing your career. This 60-minute webinar, led by executive coach Liz Woolman, will provide leading-edge information on reconnecting with your core values and purpose to make the right career choices for the future. Specifically aimed at experienced professionals and executives, this will be much more than a boring top 10 tips session – previous webinars have been described as “life-changing”. In this fast-paced and engaging webinar is aimed at leaders who have:

✔️ Been working remotely during Covid-19 and are feeling increasingly disconnected from their teams, colleagues and stakeholders
✔️ Reached a point in their lives, where they would like the opportunity to reconnect with their core values and purpose to make the right career choices for the future

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Did you know that 85% of recruitment decision makers will check you out on LinkedIn? Statistically, once you make it onto a shortlist for an executive-level job, 85% of hiring managers will want to have a look at your LinkedIn profile. LinkedIn now has over 675 million members, so recruiters and hiring managers naturally use it as one big pond to fish for and select candidates. As a consequence, having a great LinkedIn Profile is not optional, it is essential.

We will cover:

✔️ How to get your CV and LinkedIn profile working together
✔️ The right tone and style for a successful LinkedIn profile
✔️ The LinkedIn blueprint for driving interviews and job offers
✔️ How to create an attention-grabbing Headline and About section
✔️ What you should and shouldn’t put in the Positions section
✔️ How to develop 'Brand You' and sell yourself through LinkedIn
✔️ A recap on creating a high-impact executive CV
✔️ How to use Projects and case studies for maximum impact
✔️ The importance of social proofing

If you want more interviews, more job offers and a better salary, then investing one hour of your life watching this webinar is an absolute must.

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Many people think they are good in interviews, but how can you be good at something you have only done a few times in your life? It’s not just about being able to talk confidently and articulately! Being good at something requires coaching and practice, so Not Actively Looking ran this live online career workshop hosted by The CV & Interview Advisors (international speakers and thought-leaders on all things related to finding a new job), all about advanced interview skills. This one-hour recorded session will provide leading edge information on advanced interview techniques and is suitable for senior professionals and executives.

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This masterclass led by executive coach Kenneth Andrew will explore Non-Executive Director (NED) roles, the nature of their work, skillsets required and whether considering whether they might be right for you.

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This masterclass led by executive coach Kenneth Andrew will explore Non-Executive Director (NED) roles, the nature of their work, skillsets required and whether considering whether they might be right for you.

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Career consultant Christina Campbell and Not Actively Looking's Anthony Harling share key insights into executive search from their collective five decades of experience as senior headhunters. This masterclasses will help you identify relevant executive search firms, engage with headhunters effectively and build long-term relationships that will put you in the strongest possible position when you next come to look for a new role.

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Your position may not be coming back, at least not in a way that you want it. Now is the time to get focused on a re-imagined you, meaning, who you want to be and what you want to do moving forward. While that sounds scary, it is actually an exciting and invigorating time! This is an opportunity to focus your energy on self-discovery and new beginnings. You absolutely do have a choice how you want to show up tomorrow, and it starts with what you do today. This practical masterclass led by executive coach Rachelle Stone will help you take stock and re-focus your job search for success.

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Not Actively Looking's Anthony Harling, a headhunter with over 30 years' experience, leads this masterclass covering personal branding essentials. Expect to learn about: * Making sense of your career story * Getting your CV/Resume right & making it work for headhunter engagement * Optimizing your online profiles * Impactful cover letters * Coming across well at interview

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Are you looking to make your first step into the boardroom? Unsure about what to do next? This masterclass will take you through a career move into the boardroom. Led by Not Actively Looking's Anthony Harling and Heather White, CEO of Boardroom Ready By Smarter Networking, they will discuss:
The internal & external markets
Your motivation
Roles
Sectors
Sharing your ambitions
Your next steps.

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This 60-minute masterclass for senior leaders wil explore successful leadership in times of disruption. Led by executive coach Richard Torseth, we will cover how:

  • We are facing our greatest leadership challenge in generations. It isn't Covid-19 nor climate change; our biggest challenge is, will we adapt to thrive?

  • Our wicked leadership challenges are an ideal development platform

  • The path of mastery is the only road for building adaptive leadership capacity.

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Developing a clear and coherent Career Story should be a vital element of your job search. Nobody is going to hire you on the basis of your CV or résumé alone. People will hire you based on a Career Story that conveys who you are, what you have achieved so far, and what your ambitions are for this next stage in your career. Led by Not Actively Looking's Anthony Harling, a headhunter with over 30 years' experience.

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Developing a clear and coherent Career Story should be a vital element of your job search. Nobody is going to hire you on the basis of your CV or résumé alone. People will hire you based on a Career Story that conveys who you are, what you have achieved so far, and what your ambitions are for this next stage in your career. Led by Not Actively Looking's Anthony Harling, a headhunter with over 30 years' experience.

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Your position may not be coming back, at least not in a way that you want it. Now is the time to get focused on a re-imagined you, meaning, who you want to be and what you want to do moving forward. While that sounds scary, it is actually an exciting and invigorating time! This is an opportunity to focus your energy on self-discovery and new beginnings. You absolutely do have a choice how you want to show up tomorrow, and it starts with what you do today. This practical masterclass led by executive coach Rachelle Stone will help you take stock and re-focus your job search for success.

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Learn exactly how recruiters find you when there are over 690 million people registered, why you might never be found and how to practically use LinkedIn to raise your profile.

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Join executive coach Liz Woolman and Not Actively Looking's Anthony Harling for this dynamic masterclass that will explore how to leverage your professional network more effectively.

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Whether you are job seeking, considering a career change or not actively looking, an annual career audit will help you gain focus and traction in your executive career. This masterclass led by Anthony Harling, an executive headhunter with over 30 years' experience, will help you examine your current status, external factors, longer-term career objectives, and short-term actions.

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Career consultant Christina Campbell and Not Actively Looking's Anthony Harling share key insights into executive search from their collective five decades of experience as senior headhunters. This is the second of a series of 3 executive search masterclasses that will help you identify relevant executive search firms, engage with headhunters effectively and build long-term relationships that will put you in the strogest possible position when you next come to look for a new role.

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If you don’t know what you are looking for, you can’t find it. Join this dynamic live masterclass to gain valuable insights. Whether you are actively looking to change career paths or to find meaning in your work, this dynamic webinar for senior executives will take you through the process of taking stock of your career and finding meaning in what you do. Led by Bill Mann, The Keep Calm Guy, and Not Actively Looking's Anthony Harling, we will cover: Ambitions and goals, Finding direction, Who are you and what's your purpose?, Career alignment and Your needs

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This exclusive career workshop (webinar) is brought to you by Not Actively Looking and The CV & Interview Advisors; international speakers and thought-leaders on all things related to finding a new job and enhancing your career. This 60 min webinar will provide leading-edge information on creating a senior-level CV that will significantly increase interview rates and help you secure a new position. Specifically aimed at experienced professionals and executives, this will be much more than a boring top 10 tips session – previous webinars have been described as “outstanding” and “truly inspirational”.

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Not Actively Looking's Anthony Harling talks with networking experts Stuart Lindenfield and Heather White about networking in the current crisis.

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Not Actively Looking's Anthony Harling talks to Heather White from Boardroom Ready by Smarter Networking about preparing for the boardroom.

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Not Actively Looking's Anthony Harling talks with executive coach Christina Campbell about engaging with executive headhunters.

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Not Actively Looking's Anthony Harling talks with Matt Craven from The CV & Interview Advisors about how to success in an executive level interview.

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Not Actively Looking's Anthony Harling discusses the importance of social media for senior executives with Matt Craven from CV & Interview Advisors.

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Not Actively Looking's Anthony Harling discusses the importance to senior executives of having a clear career story with executive coaches Christina Campbell and Stephan Szugat. 

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Not Actively Looking's Anthony Harling discusses an agile career mindset with executive coach Helen Hanison

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Not Actively Looking's Anthony Harling discusses job search strategies with executive coach Christina Campbell

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Not Actively Looking's Anthony Harling discusses career transition with John Purkiss, author of Brand You and The Power of Letting Go and leadership coach Michelle O'Connor.