11 February 2016, 11 am
Our appointments panel of four sits round a table with the recruitment consultant, to do the “long-listing” for the next IPReg Chair. It is a small table in a very cosy room, because the recruitment consultant’s company is refurbishing its offices and this is all they have spare. They have laid on biscuits to compensate, but the sad fact is that with a plate of biscuits on the table, there is no longer room for pen and paper. The long list may actually have to be quite a short one. We go through the CVs of all the hugely successful Strategic Leaders. Ironically, we are less interested in executive roles (which involve getting on and making stuff work) than we are in non-executive roles (which involve telling other people to get on and make stuff work). We are particularly interested in people with “portfolio” careers, which means they have collected lots of different part-time non-executive roles each of which involves them turning up to meetings four times a year to tell other people to get on and make stuff work. If you have managed to gather together several such roles, all paid, and you have got away with it for more than a couple of years, then you are worthy of the title Strategic Leader and you are ready to go on our long list. Although, if you could not be bothered to proof-read your application, or to structure your covering letter around our list of essential criteria, or worse, if you thought you’d done both but had succeeded in neither, then we will be giving you short shrift however big your portfolio of strategically non-executive roles. Someone who cannot write accurately is in no position to tell patent attorneys how to behave.
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