Look at my client's career achievements!
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A Decision Support Manager was offered a new job as IT Director by prepping for her interview, knowing her worth, and negotiating her salary and perks.
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A banking Director evaluated her career, identified her skill gaps, and pivoted to Product Development within her company.
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A client was promoted from Financial Analyst to Financial Manager to Procurement Manager for a 30%+ salary increase with interview preparation, salary negotiation, and confidence coaching.
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A Backend Software Developer achieved a promotion to engineer at a Fortune 500 company with a few weeks of using her new resume that more clearly listed her technical skills and accomplishments.
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A Network Engineer received an offer from the first job they applied to after using their new, streamlined (and MUCH shorter) resume!
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An assistant at a startup moved to Executive Assistant to CEO of a major insurance company after clearly defining her many skills and accomplishments she had achieved by taking on additional responsibilities.
My Coaching Philosophy and How I Can Help You
I believe that job seekers sometimes need a little help getting unstuck—from an experienced coach and professional who can offer candid and straightforward advice. As your strategic partner, I’m here to help you overcome your career challenges, whether it’s translating technical skills to convey your business worth, strategizing your next career move, preparing for an interview, evaluating a job offer, and more.
I never use off-the-shelf programs. Instead, I offer flexible and one-on-one sessions tailored exclusively for you, ensuring a focused experience aligned with your unique career objectives.
I'd recommend reaching out to Lisa Dupras at Elev8 Coaching for an IT resume review. She provided excellent guidance and helped me craft a standout resume for my job interviews. Her attention to detail and understanding of industry trends really made a difference. She not only helped me polish the content and presentation of my resume but also provided invaluable assistance in enhancing the technical aspects. She meticulously reviewed my technical skills section, ensuring it accurately reflected my proficiency level and included relevant keywords to pass through applicant tracking systems. With Lisa’s expertise, I now have a resume that truly highlights my technical abilities and sets me apart from the competition. ~Software Engineer
My Career Coaching Process
Coaching is a 1:1 personalized approach that focuses on helping you understand yourself, your needs, and career goals. Many clients have experiences, knowledge, or passions that make it helpful to identify their career change. They often just need help to analyze, support, and confirm their choices. My career coaching follows the following process:
EVALUATE
CHOOSE TARGET JOB
MAP & GAP
EXECUTE PLAN
JOB SEARCH
1 Evaluate strengths, abilities, and job needs - We start by completing a Career Wishlist, Passions Inventory, SWOT Analysis and Target Job Questionnaire. We work together assemble helpful information about career dreams and aspirations, talents, areas that need improvement, and the your likes/dislikes around a potential job. Personality tests are offered if there is a desire to understand how aptitude and personal styles may impact a potential career change.
2 Choose a potential career & target job - We work together to research and analyze requirements and responsibilities around different professions and industries that may match with your interests, experiences, family/life goals, abilities, and appetite for additional training/learning/education. Sample job postings, salary research, and job outlooks are reviewed before a target job is chosen.
3 Identify Skill Gaps/Create a Learning Plan - Target jobs are evaluated for their requirements, learning outcomes and expectations so that the client can successfully meet them and gain employment. A process called 'mapping and gapping' is completed to evaluate the client's current skillset, where they meet the requirement and where they do not. Any gaps are researched for how they can be met. A jobs/learning plan is developed with a timeline to achieve.
4 Execute the Learning Plan - Every person's learning plan is different and is tailored to the client and their career goals. This could include training, certifications, being mentored, work experience, attending school or classes.
5 Job Search - This may includes creating a new resume, updating a LinkedIn profile, networking, searching for a job, fact-finding meetings, researching companies, commenting and growing your brand, and more.
It typically takes about 4 coaching sessions to work through a complete career pivot but every person has different needs.
I Offer Flexible Hourly Career Coaching!
As a Certified Life and Career Coach with extensive experience in HR and recruitment, I bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to help you achieve your professional goals. My background as a Compensation Analyst, Benefits Administrator and manager of performance review systems uniquely qualifies me to guide and mentor you through complex career decisions and negotiations.
Job Searching Coaching
Searching for a job has become a full-time job! Frustrations with ATSs, ghosting, non-responsive recruiters, keen job competition, longer recruitment processes, fewer first interviews, scams, and more is extending job searches by months. LinkedIn more difficult to find 'real' jobs, and many services require LinkedIn Premium. I can provide help and clarity to make your search more focused and efficient. I work one-on-one for tailored help with:
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Resume updates that focused on your target job and accomplishments.
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LinkedIn Profile updates that help recruiters to find you
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How to effectively use LinkedIn and LinkedIn Premium
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Tailored job search session evaluating companies and finding target jobs
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Coaching on how to network efficiently
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How to use LinkedIn to grow your personal brand.
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A detailed job search plan personalized just for you.
Interview Preparation - I've been manager of people AND recruiters and understand the types of questions recruiters will ask. As an HR Manager I wrote many job descriptions and postings and have a wealth of knowledge about all types of positions and jobs, including IT. We can work together to craft stories that speak directly to your target position and ability to bring value to future employers.
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Person-to-person mock interviewing
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Craft and practice delivering responses that showcase value
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Video Mock Interviewing
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Interview prepation tips
Salary and Job Offer Coaching Drawing on my experience as a Compensation Analyst, I am able to assemble comprehensive market research, strategic negotiation tactics, and thorough evaluations of job offers to ensure you maximize your earning potential and benefits. You'll receive actionable insights and strategies tailored to your needs.
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Salary Market Research
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Salary Offer Negotiation
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Job Market Research
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Job Negotiation Mock Practice
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Evaluate Job Offer Benefits
Career Planning
Are you having trouble asking for what you want at work? I offer tailored goal-setting sessions, accountability support, and career transition planning to help you navigate your career path with confidence and clarity. We can work together to set long or short-term goals, or talk about immediate concerns.
• Career Goal Setting
• Personal Goal Accountability
• Workplace Goal Coaching
• Retirement Job Transition Planning
Performance Development
With a keen understanding of job market demands and performance metrics, I can help you understand yourself and you skillsets and abilities better to enhance your professional development.
• Target Job Skill Gap Analysis
• Skills Assessment
• Personality Profiling/Testing
• SWOT Analysis
Performance Review Management
Leveraging my HR experience managing and counseling employees, I offer in-depth coaching and documentation services to prepare you for successful performance evaluations. Sessions can focus on specific aspects of your performance review process, or preparing your documentation to support the annual review process.
• Performance Review Coaching
• Performance Review Documentation
Business Services Consulting
I can provide guidance on launching and managing a consulting career on LinkedIn. This would include working with you to identify and launch freelance, consulting, or side gig opportunities. Sessions are tailored to identify opportunities and strategies for enhancing your online presence, attacting clients, and leveraging SEO for more visibility. .
• Side Gig or Freelance Opportunities
• Creating a LinkedIn Service Profile
• Creating a LinkedIn Company Profile
• LinkedIn Keyword Optimization
With my diverse background and flexible approach, I am committed helping you meet your career goals. Career coaching doesn't need to be a long drawn out process and expensive process, it can be hourly, focused meetings that address your specific needs.
Let's work together to help you get what you need.
