About Sital Ruparelia
Who is this “career management” guy anyway?
Sital Ruparelia provides solutions across two inter-related areas:
Career Management - 6FigureCareerManagement.com
Sital works with six-figure professionals, predominantly in financial services, who want to be more effective and achieve their career goals. This can involve help in earning more money, transition or promotion, working less or changing to find a more meaningful and enjoyable career.
Sital is a regular guest on BBC Radio offering career advice and job search tips to listeners. Being a regular contributor and specialist for several leading on line resources including eFinancial Careers and Career Hub (voted number 1 blog by ‘HR World’), Sital’s unique career advice has also been featured in BusinessWeek magazine.
Recruiting & Retaining Talent - AuthenticResourcing.com
Sital works with rapidly growing firms that struggle with recruitment & retention issues. He helps these businesses implement strategies proven to find, engage and retain the right people and so create more profit in less time.
He is the author of two leading e-books on small business recruitment which have sold across Europe, North America, the Middle East, China, India and Australia.
Background:
“They say failure is the best teacher, but I know better. The best teachers are the ones who have struggled and succeeded.” – Mitch Martin
Being the son of an Indian shopkeeper, Sital Ruparelia had one simple career goal as a child - NOT to become a shopkeeper - and he still failed! 
But now Sital is a much sought after and respected success, in one of the toughest and most volatile markets in the world.
He has built a reputation in the banking and financial services sector that has resulted in leading corporations such as Barclays Bank, BNP Paribas and SEI Investments calling on him for his honest advice and unique strategic input when it comes to the attraction and retention of their very best talent.
The leaders and managers of these types of companies also call on Sital when it comes to their own careers. As the owner of his own consulting and coaching company Sital is committed to helping professionals and executives within financial services to build careers that are more satisfying and fulfilling than they ever dreamed possible and in less time with less stress and hassle than he ever experienced.
Clients come to him because he brings an energy, passion and creativity that is inspiring and infectious – but with a laser-like focus on getting results.
One constant in Sital Ruparelia’s life has been CHANGE – his career over the last 15 years has been a representation of the upheaval and advancement that is the world of work today. Realising that early career expectations were not a match for his strengths and abilities, he embarked on a career path that had him leaving university with a fairly average academic record.
That still did not stop him taking on leadership roles for one of the world’s most respected retailers at the time, Marks & Spencer Plc. During his 7-year career with M&S, Sital led teams of various size and stature. He led talented teams during the great times when M&S were the most profitable retailer in Europe and a top 10 listed company – but then also led teams and managed change through Marks & Spencer’s toughest trading period in its 100-year history.
At the turn of the millennium Sital made a career change and transitioned into London’s financial district. As a specialist recruiter he found headhunting in this fast paced environment was a perfect fit for someone who could never sit still.
Post 9/11 saw a very different landscape, but one where Sital thrived due to his ability work so effectively in times of change. His ability to both search out opportunities and match talent, along with a consultative approach and trusted advisor mentality that served him well in the volatile market of 2002-03.
The call to entrepreneurship though was too strong, and in 2003 he launched his own career and talent management business specifically for the banking and financial sectors and the senior professionals employed in them.
Now as the global financial services market again enters a time of uncertainty and turmoil Sital will come in his own once more. And like an enlightened Indian many years before him Sital will embrace and welcome that change, because with it will come new and even more exciting opportunities.
“You must be the change that you want to see in the world”
– Mahatma Gandhi
Away From Work
Sital enjoys making stuff up - he is a trained comedy improviser from one of London’s leading theatre companies and has performed in a number of amateur improvisation shows. As a lifelong fan of Liverpool Football Club, he is desperately hoping this is the season Liverpool finally go on to win the league.
Sital loves hanging out anywhere that has really comfortable sofas - hotel lounges, bars, coffee shops and the like. But most of all, he loves sharing his awful jokes!
Giving Back
Sital is a passionate and committed supporter of youth initiatives.
He has been a mentor and trainer for non-profit organisations such as the East London Business Alliance (ELBA) whose innovative programmes help graduates from the high unemployment areas of London’s Tower Hamlets region to enter the job market.
Sital has worked alongside City institutions such as Credit Suisse, CitiBank and Morgan Stanley in equipping such individuals with the key skills and knowledge required to take the first steps into the corporate world and so become role models within their communities.
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