Position Ignition


Position Ignition is a Careers Guidance Service that provides career support, advice and guidance to individuals and organizations. It was set up to provide highly personal career consulting services to individuals similar to those provided to senior businessmen in other professions such as a literary agent, talent agent and a sports agent. Although headquartered in London, United Kingdom, the company is a virtual business without any established offices. The business has created a modern virtual way of working and provides career advice to high level professionals in their homes and in open spaces. Position Ignition is the first UK company to call their career consultants career guides. They currently have 15 career guides working with them.

History

The business was established in 2009, offering services around the career transition process. Since its launch, the company has acted as a guidance service around areas including career planning, finding a job, getting promotions and choosing appropriate career directions. The career services provided all use a framework developed by co-founder Simon North, and run throughout the businesses main service streams. This 3-stage process has led enabled the business to provide career programmes that guide individuals from where they are through to the point of reaching their goal. In 2011, Position Ignition launched Position Ignition for Organisations, offering consulting and support to employers around working with and the management of employees.

Honours

In July 2010, the global media intelligence provider Cision placed Position Ignition’s career blog at No. 9 in its Top 10 UK Career Development Blogs. Later on that month, Cision also featured the blog in its Featured Blog Spotlight. Also in July 2010, the career blog placed at No. 3 Online Degrees’ 100 Career Advice Blogs.

Published Articles

Career articles written by Position Ignition co-founders Simon North and Nisa Chitakasem have appeared in The Guardian, Changing Careers Magazine, Director Magazine, ShortList and on iVillage.
Interviews with North have appeared on Simply Business and FT.com. Position Ignition has also featured or been cited on Total Jobs, Management Today, Moneywise, Student Accountant Magazine, The Press and Journal, and in The Sydney Morning Herald.