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Blog: To be the best, you have to hire (and keep) the best

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  • 13/08/2010
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Imagine the scenario – it’s Monday morning and the alarm goes off like a claxon. In a bleary eyed state, you hide under the duvet and realise that it’s another week in the job from hell.

Another week with a boss that you despise, who appears to have about as many social graces as a farting rhinoceros at a tea party and insists that “no, the world really is flat and genius is spelt with two ‘n’s”.

Who hasn’t been there…or at least in a version of The Worst Job on the Planet?

Summing it up this week was one girl in America called Jenny, who decided to quit her heinous job in a decidedly novel way involving a white board.

It says a lot that this story went viral across the globe instantly, with more than six million hits in 24 hours and the likes of Sky News picking it up.

Ignoring the fact that this story turned out to be a very good hoax (more’s the pity), it seems that rather a lot of people wish they too could say sayonara to their bosses in such style. Perhaps even more so, because so many are clinging to their jobs just because they have to.

The kicker to the story? Jenny wanted to be a broker.

Ok, there’s nothing to say what kind of broker she wanted to be, but hey, even in the fictional world there are people wanting to get into the industry and surely that’s a sign for hope?

But just as no one wants a nightmare boss, no one wants an employee that makes them want to curl up in the foetal position.

And therein lies a major issue for the financial market as a whole – retaining and recruiting the best and brightest stars that will lead the industry into a new era after being pushed to its knees.

Recent research for Mortgage Solutions shows that hiring high-calibre candidates has to be a major priority for the mortgage industry, as lenders become ever-more selective about who their distribution partners are in the long-term.

And as such, that means the industry has to tackle the challenge of engaging potential aspiring brokers and not just concentrate on holding onto the job they have (hideous boss or otherwise), but push forward on professionalising the industry and training up the best that we already have.

Because no one wants to be the boss that receives a white board resignation.

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