Until very recently, there was one name in franchising that franchisors turned to when they needed to fill a senior role and couldn’t afford to get it wrong: Shirley Hughes.
Over the course of a remarkable career, Shirley built the kind of deep industry relationships and personal networks that no job board could come close to matching. If you ever worked with her, you’ll know exactly what that meant in practice.
Shirley has now retired, and while we wish her nothing but the very best, we won’t pretend she isn’t a hard act to follow. Which is precisely why, rather than simply replacing her with another individual and hoping for the best, we’ve spent time finding a partner who can deliver the same quality of service.
That partner is Careertopia, a specialist franchise executive search firm whose entire focus is finding the right people for senior roles within franchise organisations.
What made Shirley’s approach so effective wasn’t just her experience, it was the fact that she understood franchising from the inside out, knew the people involved, and took the time to understand your business before ever putting a candidate in front of you.
Careertopia is built on that exact same philosophy.
Through our partnership, we can now offer you access to a team with deep franchise industry networks, a structured and confidential search process, and the ability to source candidates at every level of your organisation from Vice President and Director through to CEO, including roles in Franchise Development, Operations, Marketing, Finance, and beyond.
No inboxes full of CVs, and no long and pointless interview schedules. Just the right candidates to fit your business and help drive it forward.
How it works
The process is thorough, confidential, and designed to save you time rather than add to your workload. We work with you to define the role, Careertopia’s network identifies and qualifies the strongest candidates, and by the time anyone reaches you for interview, the hard work has already been done.
So, whether you need to fill a role right now, are planning ahead, or simply want to understand what’s available to you should something unexpected happen – and as Shirley used to say, it can happen in any business at any time…..
