Andy Cox

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I'm Andy Cox and I'm managing director of Hewitt in the UK and Ireland, I joined Hewitt in 1990 prior to which I'd done a two or three year's actuarial training at an insurance company. Five or six years ago I started moving from the pure client work towards some more management type work.

Three years ago I went into a global role spending a year with a lot of travelling around the place and then about 14 or 15 months ago I came over and started the managing directorship of the UK and really running the UK operation.

The whole remit of managing the business falls under my wing; the good news is I have a fantastic team of people that are really doing the on the ground managing of the UK. A lot of my responsibilities is pulling them together, meeting with them, and that is why the vast majority of my life is spent in meetings rather than doing real work for the want of a better description.

I do also though spend a fair amount of my time out in the market place and I still do some advisory work for half a dozen of the largest clients that we have in the UK.

It cant have been lost on any of the severity of the current economic crisis it really has been an economy where financial markets have taken themselves the brink of very near collapse as it looks today hopefully have survived to come out the other side but this has been a real shock to the system that we shouldn't under estimate.

We are actually really fortunate in the UK we've got a type of business that we are involved in on the consulting side that is not as severely affected by the economic situation as other particularly financial organisations that are impacted, we are an organisation that has continued to grow through the economic crisis we cant tell what will happen from here and we have to be honest with ourselves about that but overall we are comfortable that we are in a business that has managed to survive very well through the very turbulent times that the economy has faced.

As you start your careers just think about every time you come across somebody new in an working environment, go the extra mile in the first bit of work that you do for them because that impression will last and will result if you do a good job in them coming back and asking you to do more and more work for them and it's a fact of life that first impressions really do matter so concentrate on those.