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Before I helped people get hired, I helped them get famous.

I cast 250+ episodes of reality TV for:

Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max.

Now I help overlooked tech talent get hired.
And help hiring leaders build teams they’d fight to keep.

I run a staffing firm that focuses on ERP and enterprise IT.

But my content?

It’s about giving you the playbook no one’s handed you:

✅ Job Search Strategy
↳To get hired faster, without burning out

✅ Career Frameworks
↳To find roles that fit you, not just pay you

✅ Hiring Insights
↳To build teams that scale with purpose

✅ Dad-Level Real Talk
↳ To explain ‘the cloud’ isn’t where planes live

If you’ve ever felt stuck, ghosted or burnt out,
or if you’re just ready for better…

➕ Follow for tools to make your next move your best one.
🔔 Click the bell so my toddler doesn’t get mad.

Jonathan  Whipple

The right people always recognize your value.

The wrong ones never will.

If you feel ignored, it's not you. 
It's the room you're in. 

Some jobs reward politics over results.
Others confuse seniority with skill. 

When you step into the right room:

1. Your ideas get oxygen
2. Your effort turns into trust
3. Your potential finally has runway

Your value isn't invisible.
It's just waiting for the right place to shine.

Agree?
Let me know in the comments. 👇

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♻️ Repost to your network their value isn't negotiable.

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AI rewrote the rules. 

Most resumes never updated.

Half of resumes read like it's 2010:
❌ Dense walls of text
❌ Duties instead of wins
❌ Zero keywords

Those resumes don't make it past AI filters.

Modern resumes aren't about flashy design.
They're about proof you can deliver results.

Here's the difference:

1.
❌ Old: Text blocks everywhere
↳ They look impressive, but no one reads them.

✅ New: Short bullets with results
↳ Clarity beats clutter every time.

2.
❌ Old: Responsibilities listed
↳ “I was responsible for X, Y, Z…”

✅ New: Wins highlighted
↳ “Cut costs 20%” gets remembered.

3.
❌ Old: One-size-fits-all
↳ Same resume sent everywhere.

✅ New: Tailored for the role
↳ A custom resume shows you want THIS job

4.
❌ Old: Fancy formatting
↳ Pretty fonts that ATS can’t even read.

✅ New: Simple, scannable design
↳ Pass the filter, then impress the human.

5.
❌ Old: Buzzwords with no proof
↳ “Team player. Strategic thinker.” Empty words.

✅ New: Keywords with context
↳ Mirror the job post and back it with examples.

6.
❌ Old: Education front and center
↳ Degrees treated like the headline act.

✅ New: Impact leads the page
↳ Results mean more than where you studied.

Hiring managers don't need a history lesson.
They need a reason to call you back.

Your resume isn't a timeline.
It's your highlight reel of proof.

What outdated resume line do you see too often?

Let me know in the comments. 👇

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Old vs New Resume by Jonathan Whipple

You can teach skills.

You can't teach kindness. 

Skills can be taught, and experience can be gained.

But kindness, empathy, positivity? 

Those rarely can.

After placing hundreds of candidates, I've watched brilliant resumes crumble under toxic behavior.

And I've seen average ones shine with humility and emotional intelligence.

The truth is: hiring the wrong attitude is far more costly than hiring less experience.

Skills compound.
But toxicity spreads.

Agree?
Let me know in the comments. 👇

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♻️ Repost to remind your network that kindness is foundational.

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(h/t @Steven, for sharing this experience)

Marc Burgess

4mation Partners

We deal with the robots, you deal with us!

I am assisting 4mation partners from the top down and bottom up, to #winthewarontalent.

As a contingent staffing business within the technology area, my aim is to focus on working with our partners to bring their conversion ratios across all hiring processes of technology contractors, to at least 3:1.

CV sent > Interview.
Interview > Placement.

This is the true measure of success and failure within this industry.

Managing Partner

Dialectica

Supporting Dialectica's customers with advisory services.

https://dialecticanet.com/

Consultant

VAT Recovery

Sales & Marketing

K2 Partnering Solutions

Sales highs whilst at K2:

- Total Net Fee Income (NFI) $23.7m, as of July ‘22.
- Total revenue in excess of £66m GBP.
- Headcount high of 147 contractors, as of Nov ‘21.
- Headcount high of my account team at my customer, 198, as of Dec '22.
- 613x contract sales placements / 78x permanent sales placements.
- Average new deal margin of 20.28%.
- Average daily client bill rate of £676 GBP per day.

5x Incentive trip winner (Cape Town, Da Nang, Mykonos, Roatán, Dubrovnik).

Business Development Director

Since the 1st placement in 2017, I have grown from scratch K2 EMEA's largest customer through our staffing services, with the following numbers:-

January 2017: 29 contractors
*82 contract placements, €976k personal NFI
January 2018: 41 contractors
*110 contract placements, €1.34m personal NFI
January 2019: 58 contractors
*98 contract placements, €1.56m personal NFI
January 2020: 75 contractors
*123 contract placements, €1.46m personal NFI
January 2021: 84 contractors
*119 contractor placements, €2.56m personal NFI
January 2022: 198 contractors. 

I passed the reigns of this customer to my colleagues in January 2022 in order to focus on a new strategic position within the K2 EMEA team, as above.

Regional Account Executive

Senior Account Executive

Principle Sales Consultant

Learnt best practices from K2's global and forward thinking academy.

Trainee Recruitment Associate

British Army

4 years as a fully trained infantryman, as part of the 3rd Battalion, the Royal Anglian Regiment, affectionately known as the Steelbacks.

-Combat Infantryman Course.
-Cambrian Patrol Gold Medalist

*Part of a Gold medal winning team on Cambrian Patrol 2010. 
Arguably the hardest patrol competition in the world, Cambrian Patrol is a 60km reconnaissance patrol over the Black Mountains and Sennybridge Training Area in Wales.
The Patrol is conducted over a period of 48 hours with no sleep, across demanding terrain, during rough weather and carrying 50kg upwards, whilst completing a series of tactical missions and tasks along the way. 
I was tasked as the 'point' man for the patrol, reacting to pressure situations first and maintaining a pace for our Section of 8 infantrymen to arrive at task as quickly, efficiently and as orderly as possible. 
My ability to lead from the front with determination, fitness, humour and sheer-willpower was just one of the reasons our Reserve Section got awarded the Gold medal standard. 

Stands include:
-First Aid and casualty evacuation under fire (CASEVAC).
-Navigating a minefield.
-Dealing with improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
-Intelligence gathering and observation.
-Reacting to and handling Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) threats.
-Crossing 75+ metres of open water (cold) tactically with all equipment.
-Close target reconnaissance (CTR).
-Defensive shooting whilst under attack.

Two year placement with East Midlands Officer Training Corps.
-Military Leadership and Development Program Module 3.
-Exercise 'Airborne Student' an insight into the TA Pre-Parachute Selection Course, culminating in partaking in P-Company Test Week (All Arms), passed.

Infantry Soldier - Reservist

University of Leicester

Acted as a relations coordinator between new students and the students union

Fresher's Representative

Tech Staffing Partner #winthewarontalent

#winthewarontalent

Phone: +44 7540542540
Email: m@4mationpartners.com
Email 2: marc@caddy.cloud

I have extensive experience providing technology freelancers across the globe.

Applications
Data
Cloud

My team can help you in any of the above.
Myself, I know #SAP #Salesforce #ServiceNow and any #DataAnalytics.
An entire network focussed on the above, contact me if you need help finding these people.

I am a highly motivated and experienced former Infantry Reservist, Ultramarathon Runner and Salesman.
I have successfully completed 24x marathons, 1x 100km race (finished 7th) and I have ran for 86 miles in a time of 19 hours. 

My obsession with never giving up is what drives me to succeed, always.

Co-Founder

For some reason my algorithm is filled with the usual 4-day a week garbage and "I only work till 5" - ironically from recruiters and those trying make it to the top (if not why would you be in sales).

Quickly scratching those off the list of ones I will try and headhunt to join me at 4mation Partners (FYI we're hiring now).

Well let me tell you a story.

I didn't do a sales deal for 12 months in my 4th year into my career.
I then picked up a lead after pitching a minimum of 7 people per day.
Made a placement with a large tech consultancy in month 12 of this dry spell.

What followed was a slow rise.
In the 1st year trading with them, less than 20 deals.
The next year, was around 50, third 65, fourth, over 100, fifth, more and so on and so forth.

When I met the main POC at the end of the first year she said:

"When I message you, you reply. Anytime, before everyone else. Even before the rest of the UK is at work."

Or something along those lines.

Anyway, as Ingvild Borge loves me saying, 

"The extra mile is an often vast and unpopulated waste land".

There is always a better Marc Burgess out there.

Don't let him beat your hunger or drive.

and that starts quite simply with doing anything to win that business ethically.

Like being so monumentally on top of your work that you will do anything but fail.

and if you don't agree - that is absolutely fine too - you will just help me #winthewarontalent even more than I already am.

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