Head of Tax
Cambridgeshire (some remote working)
Most people don’t know that there are actually two Olympic high-jump records.
The first one was set in 1900 by the US athlete Ray Ewry whose nickname was “The Human Frog”. His clearance of 1.65m has never been beaten. Then, in 1996, Charles Austin set the other one, jumping 2.39m which was a whole two and a half feet higher.
Why the huge difference?
The first record is for the standing high jump, where athletes jumped from a stationary position, with both feet together. The other one is for the high jump as we know it today, where the athletes can take a run up.
By now you may be wondering what all this has got to do with you being a Tax Specialist?
Why this, why now?
Making a successful transition to a higher level in your career is much easier when you take a run at it. Or, to put it another way; it’s so much easier to make a success of a promotion in a business where you’ve already gained some momentum.
Stepping up to any new role is tough. You need to seize your new responsibilities with confidence. When you’re doing it in a completely new environment, there are other challenges, like winning people’s confidence, understanding the company culture and making sure you don’t use Moira’s favourite mug.
Often, there’s resistance to someone new stepping into the well-worn shoes of the person who did the job before. The next person to take it on is often in a no-win situation through no fault of their own.
So, what’s the alternative? We’ve been retained to fill a Head of Tax role with a mid-sized practice that’s a chance to take a run up at a promotion.
About you
On paper, it looks like a sideways move. In reality, it’s anything but.
ACA/CTA qualified (or equivalent), you’d call on your all-round people skills and experience of providing tax advice SMEs. You’d report into the MD of a group of three offices that effectively run as their own successful small business.
You’d have the freedom to lead a small team spanning personal and corporate tax – budgeting, setting targets, improving the product suite and generally taking the strain off the existing partners.
Already, it’s a chance to shine. A shop window for your skills.
Now, let’s say one of the partners were planning to retire in the next couple of years. He’s bought the holiday home and dusted off his golf clubs. He’s ready to hand on the reins to someone new next year. The person doing this Head of Tax role would be in pole position to take over.
You’d effectively be the partner elect.
This is your shot at taking that running jump. A chance to succeed at a much higher level than you might otherwise have done.
Environment, Health & Safety Manager
Somerset
Apples are dangerous, aren’t they? History is full of examples…
Adam and Eve couldn’t resist eating an apple, which promptly ended their stay in Paradise.
A dispute over a golden apple between three Greek goddesses started the Trojan War.
And a row about Apple Corp allegedly split up The Beatles.
But you’d have to agree that sometimes the rewards outweigh the risks.
If an apple hadn’t fallen on his head, Isaac Newton might never have discovered gravity.
Steve Jobs wouldn’t have invented the iPhone.
And we wouldn’t have Thatchers cider.
The Thatcher family have been making cider at Myrtle Farm since 1904. Now, they’re looking for their very first in-house Health and Safety Manager. It’s what you might call a greenfield opportunity.
If you’re in a similar role now and frustrated by a lack of control, this is your chance to make your mark. Because this is a family-run business, there’s a refreshing lack of bureaucracy. And because they’re growing, they’re prepared to invest. So, if you have a good idea, they’ll back you. You can bring your own vision to life here.
What you can add?
Thatchers are open to new perspectives, so you don’t need drinks industry experience. You do need expertise in either Environmental Management or Health & Safety, backed by a NEBOSH level 3/Diploma.
There’s lots to do.
You’ll be leading a programme of continuous improvement, creating a company-wide culture where HSE is at the heart of everything. You set the strategy. You liaise with decision-makers. You deliver the training. You put in place the policies and procedures.
That’s why, above all, you need to be a doer, not a talker. Your CV shows that you’re practical: someone who can drive things forward and introduce new initiatives. Personally, you’ve proven you can convince and influence people to embrace new ideas.
Technical Principal Consultant
London
You liked DevOps before it was famous.
You’re a proper fan.
You remember DevOpsDays when there were just a handful of people there. You own at least one Kubernetes T-shirt (probably in black, to match your sense of humour). You still subscribe to the Arrested DevOps podcast (but you think their early stuff was better).
We’re the same as you
At Contino, our all-in dedication DevOps combined with some outstanding effort has taken us from being one of LinkedIn’s Top-25 start-ups to the UK’s leading DevOps consultancy, in just two and a half years.
We work with some household names in financial services, telecoms, retail and eCommerce and we're one of a handful of leading Hashicorp, Docker and AWS partners.
Join us and you’ll be part of a 300-strong global business: still small enough to think like a startup but large enough to keep pace with snowballing demand for DevOps expertise.
If you’re smart, sociable and looking for work with greater complexity and variety, you’ll be in great company here.
What you’ll enjoy doing
You’ll provide the method behind the magic, mentoring internal teams, checking technical specs and generally keeping projects on track. Whilst it’s not a client-facing role, you’ll be pretty much indispensable in helping customers make big transformations happen. So, when we celebrate a successful delivery, you won’t be the one asked to get the drinks in.
Wherever you’re working now – big consultancy or a smaller specialist – you’ll need the accomplished people skills to bring out the best in a multi-talented, switched-on team of technical engineers, usually dedicated to a specific client account. We don’t have a set tech-stack, but the more of the following you know, the better:
- Cloud implementation/engineering (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
- Containerisation & Orchestration (Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Sysdig, Mesos)
- Scripting or development (Python, Java, Bash, Go)
- Methodologies (TDD, BDD, Agile, Lean, DevOps)
- CI/CD (Jenkins, TeamCity, Travis, Bamboo, GoCD)
If there are skills on that list, you’d like to learn, this is an ideal move – you’ll get an annual budget of £5K to invest in personal development. You’ll find there’s plenty of room here to articulate your opinions and take the initiative and as long as you follow Wheaton’s Law, you’ll fit in just fine.
This office is by Liverpool Street, between Dirty Dicks and the Duck and Waffle. Ideal for celebrating your big wins. And everyone else’s.
Marketing Manager
Amsterdam
Are you comfortable with your sexuality?
We’re not talking about what way you swing (although we do sell swings), we’re talking about sex - because we’re comfortable with it.
But that’s easy for us to say because our client is one of the largest international adult omni-channel retailers and they’ve asked us to help them find a talented and progressive Marketing Manager.
It’s funny, but when the subject of sex turns up, a lot of people can feel a little uncomfortable. Some of those people might be your family or your friends – and you’ll have to tell them that you work in the sex sector. It’ll be your job to be able to explain, calmly, that’s not something to feel uncomfortable about.
It’s not just sex toys, it’s also lingerie and safe sex products - and if you can’t change your friends’ and family’s perceptions about what you do, how are you going to change the public’s?
Isn’t changing people’s perceptions fundamentally what marketing is really all about?
The role
As you’d expect, the marketing challenges in this industry are unique.
You’ll be targeting a large audience in a niche sector, so you’ll be picking up skills you’d struggle to find anywhere else. But you won’t be going into it unarmed because you’ll be using the power of this company’s well-known international brands.
There are also emerging markets in Europe, so you’ll get to build an entire corporation’s border-crossing marketing strategy. Imagine how impressive that’ll look in your portfolio?
You’ll enjoy working with industry experts but doing things your own way – which includes creating your own team. You’ll have the rare opportunity to work across several channels – and there’s the online stores as well as over 35 brick-and-mortar shops. And you’ll be given an enviable advertisement budget to play with.
About you
In short, you’re already a good Digital Marketing Manager and this role will help you become even better.
If you’ve got international retail experience digitally marketing a broad range of products, using SEO, PPC, and affiliate advertising, and guiding an international team of channel specialist you’re probably the one for this job.
You probably got into marketing because you’re the kind of person who is commercial, creative, and data-driven– and let’s be honest here - in what other sectors could you be as creative? And where else is your target market going to be as interested in what you show them and be part of creating that unique experience and help people have a great time?
Here, you’ll get a practically free rein to be yourself. They’re not the kind of company to blush and shy away from your ideas.
Without people like you, everyone’ll continue to recoil from sex. To associate it with smut. They’ll be missing out. Don’t make the same mistake.
If you were your employer, how would you treat yourself?
You’d probably pay yourself more, right?
That’s not arrogance. As a Support Worker, especially one who deals with individuals with complex or challenging behaviours, you deserve it for the hard graft you put in.
What about guaranteed hours, regardless of what work you actually did? Would that feature? It’d be nice, surely. What about holiday pay?
And how about the less obvious stuff?
What about more variety and a chance to develop your specialist skills?
What about escaping the office politics by not being stuck in one place?
If you could find an employer who’d treat you the way you’d treat yourself, would you move?
You spend all day looking after other people the best you can.
Isn’t it time to start looking after yourself the same way?
The big idea
Next Generation Nursing & Care are offering an above average pay rate with guaranteed hours, paid weekly, plus holiday pay.
In return, you’ll provide the support services you’re used to in supported living, residential care, and care homes in and around Plymouth. This would be vulnerable people and include those with learning disabilities, mental health needs, and acquired brain injuries.
You’ll have developed your skills in supporting those with complex and challenging behaviours and you’ll help with these cases as needed.
As a member of this transition team of support workers, you won’t be bogged down by any individual office politics. You’ll also get a variety of different experiences and challenges which will only, build on your portfolio of skills and knowledge.
What won’t be happening is you getting stuck in a rut.
You’ll receive other benefits too, like in-house training, company car or allowance, and schemes and programs we’ll run through with you to make sure you’re properly looked after.
About you
You’ll have a few years’ paid experience as a Support Worker and will have some experience with people with complex and challenging behaviours.
You’ll have a level 2 NVQ in Health and Social Care and are looking to be trained to level 3.
You’ll also need a driving licence.
Ultimately, you’ll feel that, because of your skills and the effort you put in, you deserve to be treated better and rewarded more fairly.
What next?
Treat yourself the way you treat others.
Caretaker Couple
Gold Coast
Imagine if you could design your perfect job on the tools.
Imagine what you’d choose.
Imagine if all your customers lived within walking distance of your house. And no other trades people did.
Imagine if you didn’t have to pay for raw materials, for tools or for transport.
Imagine if you didn’t have to chase invoices or write up ten quotes before landing a job.
Imagine having the time and motivation to do the best work you can, rather than just the most profitable.
Imagine no bodgers without experience or skills coming in and undercutting you.
Imagine your partner having the same customers but helping them with other aspects of their lives like cleaning and upkeep.
Imagine being able to work sociable hours, that you both choose.
Imagine coming home for lunch.
Now imagine you don’t have to pay rent or a mortgage. Or bills.
Read that line again.
It’s hard to imagine a job better than this one.
Pine Needles is an exclusive retirement village in Erina on the Gold Coast. We need a Caretaker Couple to keep life humming along nicely.
You’ll get paid $110,000 per year and all your accommodation and utilities is covered and you’ll enjoy a more relaxed pace of life while you build up your own retirement fund or nest egg.
If you and your partner are looking for a different lifestyle, we’re keen to hear more about you. You’ll need a trade, ideally a chippie or dunny diver. You’ll also need to be looking for a different pace of life, a different kind of customer and a different kind of job.
Imagine that.
