RESOURCES
Practical guidance for considered career and hiring decisions
Senior career moves and senior appointments tend to involve more judgement than simply matching a job title to a CV.
SilverShoots Resources brings together practical guidance for experienced professionals considering what comes next, and for organisations looking to recruit them.
Use the sections below as a starting point. The aim is not to prescribe one route, but to help you ask better questions before making an important decision.
FOR PROFESSIONALS
Making a considered career move
A senior career move is rarely just about finding a vacancy with a more senior title. Scope, timing, working pattern, organisational context and the nature of the engagement can matter just as much.
These resources are designed to help experienced professionals assess opportunities more deliberately, present their experience clearly and decide what kind of work best fits the next stage of their career.
For Professionals
Permanent, Interim, Contract, Fractional or Consultancy? Choosing How You Want to Work
Different engagement models create different forms of responsibility, continuity, independence and commercial risk. For experienced professionals, the next career decision is not always about finding another…
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Reviewing a Senior CV: Make Scope, Context and Results Easy to Understand
A senior CV should make a complex career easier to understand, not try to preserve every detail of it. A senior CV becomes harder to write…
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Planning a Senior Career Move: What to Decide Before You Start Looking
Before applications and approaches begin to shape the decision, define what would make a move genuinely worthwhile. Senior career moves rarely begin with a perfectly formed…
Read moreFOR ORGANISATIONS
Recruiting experienced people
Experienced candidates are usually assessing more than whether they can perform the job. They are also assessing whether the brief is credible, whether the organisation understands what it needs and whether the opportunity warrants a significant career decision.
These resources focus on defining senior requirements clearly, choosing an appropriate engagement model and presenting opportunities in a way that helps strong candidates make an informed decision.
For Organisations
Presenting a Senior Opportunity: What Experienced Candidates Need to Know
Experienced professionals do not need a senior opportunity to be oversold. They need enough credible information to judge whether it merits a conversation. A senior opportunity…
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Choosing the Right Engagement Model for Senior Work
Permanent, interim, contract, fractional and consultancy models all have legitimate uses. The right structure should follow the work. When an organisation identifies a senior capability gap,…
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Writing a Senior Role Brief: Define the Mandate Before You Advertise
A credible senior recruitment process starts with clarity about why the role exists, what authority it carries and what success should mean. Senior recruitment problems often…
Read moreWhere next?
Resources are intended to help you make a more informed decision. When you are ready to take the next step, SilverShoots provides straightforward routes for both sides of the market.
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