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Turning Points

• 08-05-2009 3:07 PM

  R KINDERSLEY Joined on 08-04-2009 Posts 1

  Turning Points Reply Contact OK.  I'll kick off this forum as I started it in the first place!  My own career turning point was when I found myself desperate to leave a job in publishing.  The job was everything I had imagined I wanted, but had somehow  ended up as a cauldron of office politics, favouritism and self publicity.  I approached Judy Farquharson of the eponymous JFL, as I remembered she had been very helpful to me as a raw graduate.  She had double booked our appointment with a lunch so we only had a few minutes together, but it gave her enough time to invite me back to consider a job in recruitment for publishing and PR.  Back then, aged 23, I still had aspirations to become a famous novelist or successful fiction editor but was lured by the opportunity to start a completely new career.  I decided to accept Judy's offer, joined JFL and quickly realised that she had become my mentor - to the extent that I took over the company when she retired. Earlier on today, before writing this, a colleague asked me if I were given the chance to live that day again, would I have made the same decision?  And I suppose that is what defines a turning point.  Yes. Ros Kindersley ros@jflrecruit.com

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