Popular Coaching Topics

What will we work on? The choice is yours. Coaching is a great way to get your life moving forward. Maybe you came here because of a problem, setback, or simply feeling stuck. We all experience these circumstances and want to find a path for something new to happen. Here are some coaching topics that are popular with my clients. Of course, we can explore any topic you’d like to bring and we aren’t limited to just this list. I work in Seattle and SF and we can use Zoom to meet anywhere. Clients join me from all across the U.S., Canada, and other English speaking countries around the world for video career coaching and leadership coaching.

Contact me now for a free no obligation phone call to discover if we have the right chemistry for coaching together.

Career Coaching for Job Search – Planned or Unplanned Career Transition

Between jobs or looking to make a leap? We keep up with the latest hiring trends so you don’t have to. Having worked with hundreds of job seekers all across the U.S. and Canada (as well as Europe and Singapore) you know we have extensive experience with technology companies and how to best position yourself with recruiters using our Recruiter Ready methodology. Our team specializes in tech careers, yet these approaches have made a difference for job seekers in retail, administrative, finance, legal, and healthcare. If an organization has a professional recruiting staff, we will help you with the keys to unlocking the job you want.

We’ll remake your resume to align with Applicant Tracking Systems
Update your LinkedIn presence
Share best-practices on your job search
Create cover letters and recruiter pitches for LinkedIn
Develop your interviewing and networking point of view
Behavior based interviewing practice and skill building with a professional performance coach
Proven salary negotiation techniques that allow you to drive a bargain without upsetting any of the parties involved

Who’s it for? Professionals of all backgrounds who want to master job-seeking in today’s hiring environment. If you haven’t looked for a job in the last four years you might be surprised how many new, hidden steps are in the process. We help people get jobs every day, even in Covid, and have the up to the minute feelers on the job market and how to get noticed, navigate the process, and land the job.

Here’s what you get:

Pre-Kickoff – We start the Resume Refactor and LinkedIn Feedback (and we’ll write a draft About section for your LinkedIn, too)
A Series of Four One-Hour Zoom Meetings covering a Unified Job Seeking Approach: Resume Development and revisions including using Jobscan to maximize your resume content, Job Search, Job Tracking, Cover Letters, Recruiter Correspondence, Interview Prep and Interviewing Mindset, and whatever is showing up for you around the job seeking process. This gets us moving quickly. You’ll get a summary of what we’ll cover in each meeting, so no guesswork, though you always can bring your own questions and concerns to every meeting and we’ll address them. The first two meetings are weekly, then we agree on the right pace for you.
A Series of Six 30-minute Bi-Weekly Zoom Meetings to answer questions, check in, and keep us accountable and to address whatever might be happening in your particular search. This gets us to four months – if we need to keep going, then we’ll schedule four more check-ins (existing clients always get priority).
Whenever a job opportunity starts to “get real” you will be able to schedule special 30 minute meetings for interview prep, post-interview download, negotiation tactics, salaries, etc.

As you can see from the list, our focus will be to get your ‘marketing’ in order, then address things that emerge like specific interviewing prep, post-interview review, and discussing the details of job offers and/or negotiation tactics. In every case you have my guarantee that we are 100% committed to whatever it is that you want and all of us at CTG are your allies in helping you achieve that goal. We work together until you accept a new position, you decide to stop looking for some other reason, or we have worked together for 6 months. Though finding a new role can be affected by many things (including the impact of the current Covid-19 pandemic on the job market), most have a new role in four months or less. $989 Flat Fee Package. We are here to partner with you in your job search.

What’s it like to work on Career Transition with me? Check out this video webinar on Resume Optimization I did with Jobscan on YouTube.

What’s Next In My Career, Career Shift, or Changing Industries

Not sure what you next act might be? Need to find your Career Trajectory? We all suffer from “The Drift” – a career that has evolved naturally along the lines of the opportunities where we said “yes.” That first break in your current field may have defined the types of jobs you’ve been able to get for your whole professional life. If you’re ready to take charge of your career and assess your skills and experience, you could choose your next role rather than going after the same sorts of jobs you’ve pursued in the past. We’ll take stock of where you are, what you want to do, and what steps to take to go after a role you are qualified for and really want. Some clients like to do this series before signing on for a Career Transition Package. Consider it an exploration of your Career Trajectory.

Four coaching sessions with unlimited email support. Sessions will be conducted by video chat or telephone.

Four Sessions: $785 – One Session: $196.25

Easily schedule a free 20-30 minute career conversation. All details are confidential.

“Tim was instrumental in helping me gain solid ground and ultimately land an excellent high paying job when I was going through career transition. Tim’s ability to genuinely and attentively listen gained my trust instantly. Through precision questioning Tim was able to assess my current career situation and future aspirations. We built an actionable road map that I could follow through for success. Tim provided guidance in the form of actionable ToDo’s while saying little but sharing a lot – a skill I value. I am grateful our paths crossed as Tim’s guidance was both timely (in that it helped me to score a great job) as well as timeless. I keep using Tim’s advice effectively even though it’s been more than a year since our last session.”

– A.L., Principal Technical Program Manager

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“Tim is a strong coach. Whether by phone or in person, Tim asks insightful questions, which allow you drill down into the tricky issues, pull them apart to see them from several new angles, and figure out the next steps that are the right fit for you.

Tim is really good at paying attention not just to what you say, but how you say it, to help uncover hidden assumptions about a challenge that you’re facing, which then allows you to take a different approach. He does all of this with a great sense of humor. I always leave coaching sessions with a renewed sense of what’s possible.” – Angela Knox, SVP of Engineering, Cloudmark