One-size-fits-all career work does not work. The players in complex and competitive labour markets are judicious and expectations are nuanced. You need to brainstorm openly, research and make consequential decisions, pitch your documents, adjust your personal brand, and adapt your interviewing content and style to each target and set of circumstances, and launch into job hunting.
This area of career work can include:
- analysing the situation that you are in
- assessing your existing or transferable skills
- exploring your passions and interests and ‘can’t-do-without’s
- forming and evaluating your aspirations
- unpacking what you see as potential barriers or obstacles
- finding out who can help you: mentors, referrers or those with insight
- researching industries, job roles and trends
- thinking about entrepreneurship or self-employment
- considering further training
- creating a life that further develops specific soft skills
- updating any required digital literacy
- boosting your confidence using CBT techniques
- writing and tailoring all your career collateral
- boosting your personal brand including your online presence
- optimising and polishing your interviewing
- learning how recruiters and other intermediaries work best
- building both labour-market and ex-labour market strategies:
- developing a networking and speculative engagement strategy
- developing a job search strategy via recruiters and head-hunters
I am dedicated to helping professionals, managers and executives get clarity and generate interview offers.
Once settled into a brand-new role, industry or workplace after extended time out, many professionals have to step up and perform on a whole new level. For many, there is an overwhelming sense of consequence that comes with the extra responsibility or ownership of a function.
Part of this is facing senior management teams. This can trigger long-forgotten performance anxiety – feelings of panic or being blocked or frozen, when trying to communicate.
I have very high success rate in supporting clients manage performance anxiety, by helping them understand what is happening, working with their systems of belief, alleviating the symptoms by reshaping responses to unwanted thoughts, and reframing the experience of relating to and engaging SMT.
"Tony provided me the most helpful coaching support whilst I was transitioning careers. His ability to quickly understand my needs and help me redefine my skill-set for a new career path was exceptional. He is quick, professional and kind. He guided me to effectively re-tell my career-story."
"Inspiring - Tony has patiently guided me along a path to career enlightenment. Enabling me to achieve clarity and define a vision for my future. He has set mechallenges which ultimately helped me understand my core drivers and the value I can add."
"Tony's guidance as a speech and presentation coach were transformative for me. He helped me understand my motivations and inhibitions. At the start he told me his goal was to make himself redundant as fast as possible. He helped overcome the blockages with impressive speed and insight. I have already recommended Tony to several colleagues."
"Tony showed me how to demonstrate my strengths in a format employers recognise. He helped in every aspect of the process, from the way to behave, to having solid answers to questions I was likely to be asked (and they really did come up!)"
