Position Ignition
Encyclopedia
Position Ignition is a Careers Guidance Service
that provides career support, advice and guidance to individual
s and organizations. It was set up to provide highly personal career consulting services to individuals similar to those provided to senior businessmen in other professions such as a literary agent
, talent agent
and a sports agent
. Although headquartered in London, United Kingdom, the company is a virtual business without any established offices. The business has created a modern virtual way of working and provides career advice to high level professionals in their homes and in open spaces. Position Ignition is the first UK company to call their career consultants career guides. They currently have 15 career guides
working with them.
placed Position Ignition’s career blog at No. 9 in its Top 10 UK Career Development Blogs. Later on that month, Cision also featured the blog in its Featured Blog Spotlight. Also in July 2010, the career blog placed at No. 3 Online Degrees’ 100 Career Advice Blogs.
, Changing Careers Magazine, Director Magazine, ShortList
and on iVillage
.
Interviews with North have appeared on Simply Business and FT.com. Position Ignition has also featured or been cited on Total Jobs, Management Today, Moneywise, Student Accountant Magazine, The Press and Journal, and in The Sydney Morning Herald
.
Category:Companies based in London
Careers advisory service
Careers Advisory Services in the UK are typically organisations that offer advice, guidance and counselling on careers. People may use these services for a number of purposes, such as jobhunting, changing careers, getting a promotion, building career skills, returning to work after a career break...
that provides career support, advice and guidance to individual
Individual
An individual is a person or any specific object or thing in a collection. Individuality is the state or quality of being an individual; a person separate from other persons and possessing his or her own needs, goals, and desires. Being self expressive...
s and organizations. It was set up to provide highly personal career consulting services to individuals similar to those provided to senior businessmen in other professions such as a literary agent
Literary agent
A literary agent is an agent who represents writers and their written works to publishers, theatrical producers and film producers and assists in the sale and deal negotiation of the same. Literary agents most often represent novelists, screenwriters and major non-fiction writers...
, talent agent
Talent agent
A talent agent, or booking agent, is a person who finds jobs for actors, authors, film directors, musicians, models, producers, professional athletes, writers and other people in various entertainment businesses. Having an agent is not required, but does help the artist in getting jobs...
and a sports agent
Sports agent
A sports agent procures and negotiates employment and endorsement contracts for an athlete.In return, the sports agent generally receives between 4 and 10% of the athlete's playing contract, and 10 to 20% of the athlete's endorsement contract, though these figures vary...
. Although headquartered in London, United Kingdom, the company is a virtual business without any established offices. The business has created a modern virtual way of working and provides career advice to high level professionals in their homes and in open spaces. Position Ignition is the first UK company to call their career consultants career guides. They currently have 15 career guides
Career Guide
A career guide is an individual or publication that provides guidance to people facing a variety of career challenges. These challenges may include dealing with redundancy; seeking a new job; changing careers; returning to work after a career break; building new skills; personal and professional...
working with them.
History
The business was established in 2009, offering services around the career transition process. Since its launch, the company has acted as a guidance service around areas including career planning, finding a job, getting promotions and choosing appropriate career directions. The career services provided all use a framework developed by co-founder Simon North, and run throughout the businesses main service streams. This 3 stage process has led enabled the business to provide career programmes that guide individuals from where they are through to the point of reaching their goal. In 2011, Position Ignition launched Position Ignition for Organisations, offering consulting and support to employers around working with and the management of employees.Honours
In July 2010, the global media intelligence provider CisionCision
Cision AB is a business and communication intelligence firm that provides media research, distribution, monitoring and communication evaluation, as well as target group identification and distribution of information for PR and IR purposes to public relations agencies, corporations, government...
placed Position Ignition’s career blog at No. 9 in its Top 10 UK Career Development Blogs. Later on that month, Cision also featured the blog in its Featured Blog Spotlight. Also in July 2010, the career blog placed at No. 3 Online Degrees’ 100 Career Advice Blogs.
Published Articles
Career articles written by Position Ignition co-founders Simon North and Nisa Chitakasem have appeared in The GuardianThe Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, Changing Careers Magazine, Director Magazine, ShortList
Shortlist (magazine)
ShortList is a free weekly magazine published in the United Kingdom which launched on 20 September 2007. The magazine has the biggest circulation of any men's lifestyle magazine in Britain with Martin Robinson as its Editor. Mike Soutar, former editorial director of IPC Media, editor of FHM in the...
and on iVillage
IVillageUK
iVillage UK iVillage UK is a British women's lifestyle website run by media company iVillage, owned by NBC Universal.-History:iVillage UK was established in December 2000 as a British branch of US website iVillage.com...
.
Interviews with North have appeared on Simply Business and FT.com. Position Ignition has also featured or been cited on Total Jobs, Management Today, Moneywise, Student Accountant Magazine, The Press and Journal, and in The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald is a daily broadsheet newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1831 as the Sydney Herald, the SMH is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia. The newspaper is published six days a week. The newspaper's Sunday counterpart, The...
.
See also
- Career counselingCareer CounselingCareer counseling and career coaching are similar in nature to traditional counseling. However, the focus is generally on issues such as career exploration, career change, personal career development and other career related issues. Typically when people come for career counseling they know exactly...
- Career developmentCareer developmentIn organizational development , the study of career development looks at:*how individuals manage their careers within and between organizations and,...
- Job huntingJob huntingJob hunting, job seeking, or job searching is the act of looking for employment, due to unemployment or discontent with a current position. The immediate goal of job seeking is usually to obtain a job interview with an employer which may lead to getting hired...
- Career GuideCareer GuideA career guide is an individual or publication that provides guidance to people facing a variety of career challenges. These challenges may include dealing with redundancy; seeking a new job; changing careers; returning to work after a career break; building new skills; personal and professional...
- CareerBuilderCareerBuilderCareerBuilder.com is the largest online employment website in the United States, with more than 23 million unique visitors each month and a 34% market share of help-wanted web sites in the United States. CareerBuilder.com provides online career search services for more than 1,900 partners as of...
- Monster.comMonsterA monster is any fictional creature, usually found in legends or horror fiction, that is somewhat hideous and may produce physical harm or mental fear by either its appearance or its actions...
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