Sital Ruparelia

Sital provides solutions across 3 areas:

Career Management

Sital works with individuals who want to be more effective in achieving 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. And a guest author to several leading online publications including eFinancial Careers, Career Hub (voted number 1 blog by ‘HR World’) and Fashion Capital.  Sital’s career advice has also been featured in The Financial Times and BusinessWeek.

Recruiting, Engaging & Retaining Talent

He also works with organisations that struggle with recruitment, engagement and retention issues. Sital helps these firms implement strategies proven to find, engage and retain the right people and so create more profit in less time.

Speaking

Sital delivers tailored workshops, seminars and inspirational key note speeches on a range of subject matters relating to the leadership, engagement and retention of talent along with how to effectively manage careers in the modern workplace. More details at this link.

The Back Story:

“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 build more satisfying and fulfilling careers in less time and with less stress.

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 18 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 (despite wanting to stay away from retail!). 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 recruiting 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 to help business find, engage and retain the right people – and also to help individuals become much more successful in their careers.

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 (and a foolish optimist), he is desperately hoping next season Liverpool finally go onto win the football league for the first time in over 20 years!