Helen Roberts
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Career Development Coach Expert
Helen Roberts Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Career Coach, Career Development & Guidance, Career Counselling, Headhunter, Entrepreneur Training & Development, Career Change/Career Transitions
- Best Sellers
- Working on it!
- Career Focus
- To become a billionaire. And to empower as many people as possible around the globe to achieve greater success in their career & life
- Affiliation
- Entrepreneurs Worldwide, CPG Executive Consulting, Career Development Coach, Trump Network, Connecting Executives Worldwide, Jobs Manager
Helen is a Career Development Expert, Executive Search Consultant, Coach, Mentor, Entrepreneur and Outplacement Executive with over 15 years experience. She has assisted companies and individuals Worldwide and has worked out of the UK, Ireland, France, Australia, US and Singapore.
Her philosophy is simple - she always encourages her clients to Find and Do something that they love. She encourages people to strive to be the best that they can be and achieve far greater success doing something that they love as opposed to working, doing something they hate, for a pay check.
Helen has assisted many of the world's leading investment banks, & other fortune 500 businesses & over 50,000 individuals throughout her career. She worked in house managing large scale recruitment contracts with JP Morgan, Citigroup and KPMG. She has helped people at all levels in their career. She worked with people and moved them on in the corporate world and identify business opportunities for people that wanted to go in to business for themselves and helped entrepreneurs develop their ideas to go in to business for themsleves. Her service is tailored to her client's specific needs to ensure she delivers on any task at hand.
Helen has a track record of success. She has risen to the top in every company she worked with. She is passionate about being the best that she can be and in turn driven by achieiving results. She was always the top performing consultant achieving above and beyond what was expected. She was headhunted to CPG in 1995. and was hired to build the Temp & Contract business and establish a Permament desk in the city in London. When she joined there were 5 employees and the company turnover was 1 million. In 3 years she built the temp desk from 37 to over 650 temps per week, she established a permanent desk which turned over 3 million per year and increased the staff to 65 employees. She drove the company results to over 15 million. Helen is truly an inspirational leader.
Being the Entrepreneur that she is, in 1998 at 25, she set up a business from scratch in Ireland. With one other assistant she built the business to a turnover 1 million in her first 14 months. The business grew from strength to stength where she now has offices and alliances around the globe. The services she offers have increased and now include:
Career Development, Executive Search, Coaching, Mentoring, Entrepreneurial Development and Outplacement. HR Services, Response Handling, Outsourcing, Psychometric Evaluation & Competency measurement.
Helen is Managing Director at CPG Executive who provide Recruitment Solutions across Banking & Finance, Accountancy, IT, Legal and Sales. CPG is a boutique providing Executive Search, Contingency Recruitment and a broad range of HR services. They work with many global fortune 500 businesses. The cornerstone of their success is building successful, long lasting client relationships without becoming complacent. They realise they are only as good as the last piece of business they execute. They constantly deliver high quality, calibre, individuals to their clients, time and time again. They enjoy tremendous success delivering on business critical roles, in a short time frame with 0% fallout. Their mission is to be the number one choice for customers requiring recruitment solutions.
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10 Common Mistakes For Entrepreneurs To Avoid
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Who And What In The World Inspires You?
During the week whilst giving an interview I was asked this question - Who and What in the world inspires me? It's a great question and always fun to think about what serves as my inspiration at any given time. I find not a day goes by without being truly inspired in some way. I seek out inspiration in so many people and things all over the place.
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Business Plan - A Work In Progress
One of the first things you learn as a business owner is that there's no such thing as "set in stone." Everything's a moving target, and adapting has to be part of the plan-even when it comes to your business plan itself. In fact, it's a good bet that the product or revenue model you originally start with will be worlds away from what you'll end up doing. If you fail to recognize what needs changing in time, the business can evaporate faster than you might think.r
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Training – an Expense or an Investment?
Training – an Expense or an Investment? Many entrepreneurs seem to view employee training and development as more optional than essential...a viewpoint that can be costly to both short-term profits and long-term progress.
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How Can You Give Yourself An Edge In A Difficult Job Market?
How Can You Give Yourself An Edge In A Difficult Job Market?
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Don't allow FEAR to stick you in the pits
FEAR is the number one reason that holds you back! Where in your life are you playing small and letting FEAR take over? Are you in a job that you hate and feeling unfulfiled and frightened to move on? Are you in a relationship that you know in your heart is not for you however you're frightened to end it and take the next step? We become paralysed by FEAR and often don't move forward as a result, we stay stuck. Don't allow FEAR to stick you in the pits I fondly remember a quote from Erma Bombeck, "If life is a bowl of cherries, why do I feel stuck in the pits?!"
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There are no secrets to success
The true formula to success, personal or professional, is seldom disclosed. Why? Is it because no-one really wants to acknowledge that there is no quick-fix to success, ove ight success, or Success for Dummies guide. World renowned golf player Gary Player is known for saying: “The more I practice, the luckier I get!” General Colin Powell shares the same belief. He said: “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.”
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What Is Your Business Model?
What Is Your Business Model? If you don’t have a business model; how can you expect to be successful in business. A Business Model is imperative to each and every business. It shows investors precisely how your business will create a profitable niche in the marketplace. Why do investors place so much emphasis on business models? What do they mean?r
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Mid Life Career Change – Unlocking Your Full Potential
I have always been passionate about what I do, and that’s why I do it. Even from the beginning of my career I made a pact with myself, that the day that I don’t enjoy what I do, is the day I’ll do something else. My philosophy is and has always been, do what you’re passionate about, what you love. Tap in to what your real life purpose is and pursue it and you will feel totally fulfilled. How many people do you know that absolutely love what they do? That can’t wait for Monday mornings? Or should I ask
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Live Your Best Life, NOW!
When last did you look forward to getting up for work in the morning? Better still, when last did you not experience that knot in your stomach on a Sunday evening as you began to dread the Monday grindstone? Is it just me or do you get the feeling that something is wrong with this picture? Many of us have been brought up to believe that work is not meant to be fun. It’s a place to earn a living to support your family. Fulfillment… what fulfillment? Rub the sleep out of your eyes and wake up! Or at least that’s what our grandparents would have drummed down our throats.
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Mid-Life Career Change
Mid-Life Career Change At the age of 40, Grant was a school teacher who merely existed from one day to the next. He didn’t dislike his chosen career path, but was becoming increasingly frustrated. The frustration made him feel irritable and he took it out on the people closest to him, leaving him even more isolated. Bottom line is that Grant wasn’t happy. He had achieved what he wanted to as a school teacher, but felt it was time to move on and achieve new things.
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New Year's Resolutions - Friend or Foe?
New Year’s Resolutions – Friend or Foe? Set Yourself Up For Success In 2012! Where are you at in your life? How was 2011 for you? What went well, what didn’t go so well? Where do you want to be this time next year? What are the top 5 things you want to achieve in 2012?
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Helen Roberts
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them" - George Be ard Shaw
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