TOOLS, RESOURCES & STRATEGIES USED
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Resume Writing Templates
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Top Interview Questions
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LinkedIn Optimization
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Professional Pictures
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Cover Letter Templates
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Compensation Negotiations
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Application/Interview
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TrackingNavigating Career Change
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Job Searching Best Practices
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Job/Career Paths Planning
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Interview Preparation
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Multi Offer Letter Analysis
Resume Writing
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Create (Revise) a Unique Professional Resume
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Conduct a Phone consultation with myself to discuss experience
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Utilize proven resume formats that gets employers’ attention.
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Keyword optimized to get through Applicant Tracking Systems.
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Personalized draft turned around within 3-5 business days
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Make up to 3 rounds of comprehensive revisions
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Your final resume emailed to you in Word & PDF
Application & Interview Tracking
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Utilize our Tracker/Journal Template during your job search process to:
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Stay organization when tracking every job you've applied to
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Organize your interview notes in real time to reference back to compare when making your decision
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Journal your post-interview thoughts, feelings or additional questions for the next interview
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Make sure nothing falls between the cracks like a follow-up thank you email.
LinkedIn Optimization
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LinkedIn is the largest online professional network, with over 400 million members.
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According to LinkedIn, having a picture makes your profile 14 times more likely to be viewed! ​
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Knowing how to build and present a snapshot of you in a profile is essential to all career progression.
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70% of employers find their candidate on LinkedIn
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90% of all recruiters/ hiring manger's will review your LinkedIn prior to calling/meeting you for an interview
Job Searching Best Practices
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Resources & Methods to Job Hunting
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Best practice for finding & matching with the best opportunities for you
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Utilizing professional connection as "Centers of Influence" to enhance your effort
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How to leverage LinkedIn and other job sourcing website
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Set up specific alert for you
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Get employee to start finding you
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Career Fair & Networking Groups
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How to ask a connection to put a good word in for you
New Professional Picture
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We will take new pictures (if necessary) with editing to create the best professional image of you
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Having and updating a Professional Picture is a must in today culture. ​
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Cropped or cell phone pictures are a poor representation of you and what you can provide.
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90% of Employers will look you up on LinkedIn or Google prior to an interview, which mean they are creating a perspective of who you are before you even meet
Ideal Job | Career Path
You've probably thought about your idea job, but have you ever took to time to review personality assessments, past positions/companies and actually put into writing your ideal job description?​
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Review your Strengths & Weaknesses | Industries are you targeting
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Do you want to Manage people | How much travel do you prefer
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What type of Company Culture & Values are you best aligned with?
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Do you work best; by yourself or in a team?
Cover Letters | Follow-Up Letters
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Your "Cover Letter" gives you the ability to "tell your story" and compliment your custom resume
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It articulates your experience and how you'd add value to the company
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It expresses specifically how your past experiences are aligned which the position to great maximum value
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It elaborate on why you'd be the best person for that position and a great culture fit
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"Thanks You Letter" are another necessary step after every interview which we'll help you customize
Interview Preparation
Weather you're brushing up on your interview skills or about to have a interview for your dream job, you can never be over prepared
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1-hour coaching calls to talk about and/or role play around
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Handling a phone, 1on1, panel or day-long interactive interview
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Best question to ask during an interview
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Dress code for all interview types
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Compensation | Benefits Negotiation
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How to articulate your ROI and achievement to potential employers
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Analyzing/ Reviewing your current compensation vs market value
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Answering past compensation interview questions to maximize your future offer
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How to appropriately and effectively make a case for a pay increase during an annual review or whenever justified
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Insight into how corporate policy and pay scales actually work
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Leveraging other offers to effectively increase your comp.
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Building a core belief as to what you're value is
Multiple Offers Analysis
In this market, it's very common to get multiple offers, including a counter-offer from your current employer.
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Use us as a sounding board to Analysis each opportunity by:
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Role & Responsibility compared to your wants
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Salary vs. average hours worked (Effecting pay dilution)
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Bonus history, Benefits cost & quality
TOOLS, RESOURCES & STRATEGIES USED
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Personal Summary Website
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Top Interview Questions
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AssessmentsBehavioral
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Interviewing Company Bio
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Annual Goal Planner
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Navigating Career Change
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Types of Interviews Prep
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Branding & Business Cards
Professional Summary Website
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Creating a personal online website which showcases you, experience summary and achievements and contact information​
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Recommended for anyone at a Director or higher level
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Creates an e elevated of professionalism to employers
Annual Goal Planner
Creating and tracking your personal, profession and financial goals is the foundation to anyone who's ever been successful. ​
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A goal planner will keep you on focused on hitting your weekly, quarterly, annual goals
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Successful professionals:
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Plan their daily the night before
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Review their goals and progress daily/weekly
Interview Questions Preparation
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77% of recruiters see typos or poor grammar as dealbreakers, 35% feel the same about unprofessional email addresses.
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39% of the candidates leave a bad impression due to their overall confidence level, voice quality, or lack of a smile.
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33% of interviewers decide whether or not they want to hire a candidate during the first 90 seconds of a job interview.
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Body language can constitute more than 50% of what we are communicating to our interviewer.
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Over 75% of hiring managers use behavioural interview questions to test soft skills
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47% of interviewers say they wouldn’t choose a candidate who has little knowledge of the company.
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71% of interviewers will pass on a candidate who isn’t appropriately dressed.
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90% of people who use an interview coach get a job offer as twice as fast as job seekers who don’t prepare
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74% of HR managers prefer structured interviews.
Navigating a Career Change
Changing Jobs let alone Career takes a lot of reflections and analyses! Ask yourself:
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What do I like most about my current or past roles?
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What do I not like?
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What drives me beyond industry, perks, or day-to-day responsibilities in my current job?
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What kind of growth opportunities do I want to see in my career?
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What’s missing in my role or industry, and how would a new industry help find that?
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Consider what (and who) motivates and inspires you.
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Take stock of your current skills and those you will need to develop.
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Create a resume focusing on Skills vs. Experience
Personality Assessments
Understanding your own character traits can be a powerful tool when deciding your career path. Additionally, this self-awareness could give you an advantage when being assessed by potential employers. Taking a personality test could help you to:
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Understand your own skills and interests
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Be aware of potential challenges in a given work role or environment
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Identify promising career paths
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Present yourself positively to employers
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Identify ideal work environments and relationships
Preparing for all Types of Interview
Just knowing how to answer "Interview Questions" aren't enough!
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Employer are listening how you sound over the phone, present over video or what you're attire/background look like.
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In person one on one interview will be your 1st in person so they're evaluating you and making a judgement within the 1st 30 seconds.
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Lastly, panel interview are meant to trip you up and see how you handle the pressure of several sets of eyes and ears on you simultaneously!
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The only way to be fully prepared with great answers while remaining calm, collected & confident is practicing through "Mock Interviews".