Ep.22 How to Map Your Skills and Experience to a New Career - Nick Durrans - Programme Director

Management Consultancies, big or small, can be a really good fit for Emergency Service professionals. It's challenging, you need to be resilient, the ability to communicate and manage challenging and demanding stakeholders, remain calm under pressure, manage a high workload, advise and support clients, manage expectations, have challenging conversations and be results orientated. Any of this sound familiar? Nick Durrans is a former Royal Marine Commando and Officer who did 5 Tours in Iraq and Afghanistan completing 18 years military service before leaving for a Project and Programme Management career with one of the 'Big 4' Consultancies. Nick is now a Programme Director for Change and Transformation Programmes working with many national and high profile Public Sector organisations.  Whether considering management consulting, Project and Programme Management, or in fact, any move to a new role, whether mid-service or on retirement, this interview is absolutely crammed with information, hints and tips that will help you massively. It is an exceptional episode. We discuss mapping and evidencing your values, skills and experience into 'civvy street' and the selection process and what that entailed. We also talk about the most relevant courses for these types of roles and the importance of life-long learning. Nick also talks about how he felt as he was approaching the end of his service, having done nothing else, his worries, fears and concerns and that loss of identity that we feel. He also talks about 'imposter syndrome' and the importance of humility.  There is so much parity in what he went through and the feelings many of us have when leaving the Police or other services. If you're on shift and it's 'Q', have a listen! You can listen anywhere and whenever suits you best and they're all completely free!   Don't forget you can join our Private Facebook group at : www.facebook.com/groups/bluelightleavers  You can also visit the website and blog on www.bluelightleavers.com  Download my free guide to LinkedIn for Emergency Service Professionals via this link: https://www.bluelightleavers.com/pl/95723  If you like what you've heard, please subscribe, hit 5* and leave a review and share and come and join us in our Private Facebook Group.