Harness your skills and show you care
IF YOUR career background is in management, it is a useful skill to transfer to a franchise.
Christian Wilse and his wife Sally run the Seniors Helping Seniors franchise in Canterbury, Kent, employing older people to provide elderly care services.
And Christian, the UK master franchisor of Seniors Helping Seniors, is also recruiting UK franchisees with management skills and heart.
‘Over 95 per cent of Seniors Helping Seniors’ 300 franchisees across the globe left the corporate world to concentrate on doing something worthwhile with their skills,’ he says.
Seniors Helping Seniors franchisees match carers to clients and use their project management and operational skills for efficient scheduling and logistics.
Andy Boothman, a former management franchisee at a cleaning franchise who is considering investing in Seniors Helping Seniors, says: ‘My people skills will transfer well to Seniors Helping Seniors, and I will use my financial management and marketing skills. As a former franchisee I also know franchisors help you develop skills you lack.’
Christian adds: ‘We want to hear from people with management skills. The current investment required is £10,000 so it does not usually make too big a dent in a redundancy package or pension pot.’ Other management franchises include commercial consultancy Business Doctors, where franchisor Rod Davies says: ‘We want people with gravitas, presence, savvy, likeability and people skills.’ The franchise costs £35,700.
SENIORS Helping Seniors, 01227 454 900; Business Doctors, 0845 219 7077.