TRADITIONAL CAREER SERVICES

CAREERPILOT SERVICES

1. Focus on past jobs: duties and responsibilities, rather than current skill sets, knowledge and experiences. 

1. Getting to know yourself…  Comprehensive Career FITness evaluation, an interpretive process that expands personal skill vocabulary, AND Learning to express yourself… effecting a positive change in awareness and self-confidence.  Enables pro-active communication.

2. Focus mainly on past job titles or roles. The objective becomes “re-employment...” simply getting a job.

2. Exploration of both old jobs and choices, identifying the right work and new options… help in navigating the “challenging waters” of career transition. A more strategic approach to identifying and taking appropriate next steps.

3. Help with cover letters & resume + an intro to Internet Job Banks…  key job-hunting tools. 

3. Self-presentation and unique marketing materials, both written and verbal are key job search tools.  Using the Internet to leverage both time and productivity, developing high tech-high touch savvy in personal marketing.

4. Job Change Campaign focused mainly on applying to numerous ads and other postings (where 100% of job searchers are looking at that 25-30% portion of the jobs).

4. Creation of and execution of a well thought out, Personal Market Plan… focused mainly on research and person-to-person contact making, supplementing traditional avenues.  Exposure to BOTH Job Markets.

5. “Generic Networking”: asking all your contacts if they know anyone who has a job that “fits” you… who’s hiring?

5. Focused networking efforts, utilizing proven strategies and tactics throughout your Market Plan Implementation.  Helps to identify high quality “job leads,” and secure actual interviews with desired employers.

6. Primary interview training:  job interviews.

6. Primary interview training:  Referral activity leading to interaction with key contacts, which build connections to Hiring Authority without waiting for “openings” to occur.  These conversations also train candidate for actual job interviews.

7. Coaching compensation negotiation:  waits for the offer at the end of the job search

7. Coaching on the handling of salary questions given at the beginning of the search...  An irreplaceable verbal skill.  Actual salary negotiations coaching at time of the offer, a structured approach.

9. Career Consultation finished at time of new job or promotion.

9. Client continues to build visibility and credibility in his/her chosen field starting with a “Landing Letter.”  5-year goals established as well as care-and-feeding of the network that has been built in the job search.