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Fintech career coaching to turbo charge your job search!

Leveraging our deep fintech talent expertise, we offer a range of bespoke 1-on-1 career coaching services that will dramatically increase the chances of you securing your ideal fintech career opportunity.

 
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We currently offer paid career coaching in 3 key areas to support your fintech job search:

 

Fintech Job Search Audit Power Call

Fintech CV (Resume) & LinkedIn Tuning

Fintech Job Search Action Strategies

 

There is also another option. If after reading the detail of these offerings you feel you’d benefit from all 3 areas, just a few parts combined from more than one or even something totally different, that’s fine too, simply book a call to discuss and we’ll arrive at a solution that suits just your needs.

UPDATE: Shawn only takes on a fixed number of career coaching candidates, and unfortunately he is currently at capacity, sorry about that. Similarly he is not currently taking orders for the 3 coaching packages (Power Call, CV, Strategies). So rather than book a call, can you please email him to register your interest and he’ll confirm if he might be able to assist you soon. Thanks.

 

 

Through a combination of our niche international fintech sector expertise, hiring prowess, career coaching competence and willingness to share inside recruiter and industry intelligence, we can help you gain clarity, focus and the knowledge to position yourself so you’ll have a significant advantage over other candidates. Ultimately this will de-risk your job search whilst accelerating the chances of you getting the role you want and deserve.

 

All these career coaching services are designed and delivered by Shawn Rutter, the founder of Excelsior Search. Shawn has over 25 years international fintech recruitment experience, delivering assignments in 17 countries across leadership, sales, service and technical roles. His fintech recruitment industry knowledge is unparalleled and on a 1-on-1 basis you have the opportunity to tap straight into this for yourself.

 

To make it a ‘no-brainer’ to sign up there are two other things you should know:

  • We offer a full money back guarantee.

  • If we place you for one of our client assignments within 12 months, we will refund all fees for any service you signed up for.

Couldn’t make it easier to sign up could we?

Email: coaching@excelsiorsearch.com


 
Fintech Job Search Audit Power Call

In order make your fintech job search easier and successful, this is the perfect starting point to gain clarity on what you need to focus on, in addition to exploring the job search opportunities and potential challenges for you. Whether you already work for a fintech or want to pivot your career to work for a fintech, have been looking for a while or just are about to start looking, from this deep dive you’ll come away with invaluable personal and fintech industry insight to set up your job search for success.

From a review of a pre-call questionnaire and an hour long 1-on-1 session, Shawn Rutter will spend time getting to know you, your experience, personal motivations and career objectives, from which he’ll conduct an ‘audit’ to share with you on this call. He’ll assess and share with you:

  • The clarity you need going into your job search.

  • What fintech’s will find attractive (or not) about your profile, and how to use this intelligence to your advantage.

  • A fintech industry fit assessment so you know where to focus your energy for success. You gain insight into which fintech companies and roles are most suitable for you, what the candidate competition for those roles is like, and know where you’ll have an advantage over others.

  • Potential ‘blockers’ you may need to overcome.

  • Remuneration considerations.

  • Ideas for developing your personal brand.

  • Initial collateral assessment (CV / resume, LinkedIn profile).

  • ‘The gamechanger‘, findings from one more essential assessment we’re not going to mention here, but you’ll need to know as it will really will be a gamechanger for getting the interviews you want.

You’ll certainly leave this session with clarity and confidence to approach your fintech job search.

Investment: £99

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Fintech CV (Resume) and LinkedIn Tuning

There are two essential pieces of collateral you need for your job search, a CV (aka resume) and LinkedIn profile, both of which must outshine those of other candidates competing against you.

The CV has one purpose, and that’s to demonstrate your relevancy for a role in order to secure an interview. Hiring managers, talent teams and recruiters will often spend just a few seconds reviewing a CV, so what jumps straight out from your CV really does count!  To enhance your CV Shawn Rutter will:

  • Conduct a 10 point check review process and provide feedback on your current CV. From this review tuning actions will be identified, or perhaps you’ll need assistance writing it from scratch.

  • Share with you example CV templates, paragraphs and sentences aligned to your role function.

  • Complete a round of edits to fine tune the CV for you.

  • Show you how to quickly and easily customize a CV to increase it’s relevancy for different roles.

Once both Shawn and yourself are happy with your CV, he’ll move onto your LinkedIn profile which has an additional function to your CV; to get you found!  Shawn will:

  • Conduct a 12 point check review process and provide feedback on your current LinkedIn profile.

  • Give you clear directions and help craft the changes that need to be made, not only to present yourself, but also how to optimize your profile so it is found by hiring managers and recruiters. Shawn will even take you through a demo of how recruiters search LinkedIn.

From this tuning process you’ll have a CV and LinkedIn profile with powerful relevancy so it really stands you out from the competition and will get you found!

Investment:  £149

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Fintech Job Search Action Strategies

You may well have a great CV (aka resume) and a highly polished LinkedIn profile, but without the right multi-channel job search strategy to get them in front of the right hiring managers, the chances of you finding your dream job diminishes.

From two action strategy sessions tailored to your own fintech job search needs, Shawn Rutter will share with you:

  • The power of relevancy and how to project it at the right times to ‘tip the scales’ in your favour.

  • Who your ‘avatar’ fintech company targets are, including some names and good research sources to identify more.

  • Ways to significantly reduce the number of jobs you apply for, focussing on quality over quantity.

  • How to apply to advertised roles in a way that makes you stand out and dramatically increases your chances of getting an interview over other applicants.

  • How to leverage the power of LinkedIn to get noticed.

  • How to identify, engage and keep on the radar of the best fintech recruiters and executive search consultants, so they come to you first.

  • The 2 most effective ways of tapping into the hidden job market.

  • How to maximise your personal brand perception dimensions to influence hiring manager decision making.

You’ll come away with clarity on where and how to focus your job search, increasing the chances of securing the role you want whilst saving yourself time and reducing career risk.

Investment: £149

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An introduction to Shawn Rutter, your fintech career coach.

Shawn Rutter is the founder of Excelsior Search, the market-leading, niche search company specialising in international executive search and recruitment solutions for financial technology (fintech), data and research providers to the global capital markets and investment industry.

Following graduation from Oxford Brookes University, Shawn was a Commissioned Officer in the British Army for seven years. On leaving the Army he worked for the international search firm MRI and then went on to establish Excelsior Search in 1999. 

With a distinct market focus recruiting only within capital markets and investment fintech, Shawn has over 20 years of international recruitment expertise in this sector across the Amercicas, EMEA and APAC. Thanks to his specialist experience in global fintech recruitment and career management, Shawn is able to provide valuable insight and expert knowledge from both fintech employer and candidate perspectives.

Driven by his passion for the capital markets and investment fintech industry, Shawn likes to contribute to both industry and career thought leadership, this includes:

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnrutter/

Email: shawn@excelsiorsearch.com

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Connect with Shawn on LinkedIn and follow him on Twitter.

Here are a couple of Shawn’s career related articles and his contribution to fintech industry thought leadership.