Executive Coaching
Personal/Life Skills Advice
Personal Habits/Skills
Helping you focus on specific areas of your Career or Personal life is a rewarding and effective method of improving and accelerating the likelihood of you securing the Job you want and dealing with Life issues.
Some of the areas you might want to address might include:
How to develop positive personal habits in your personal and professional life.
How to improve your management of people, your leadership skills and how to relate to people more effectively.
Being clear on your career motivators, values, skills and strengths.
Developing a strong personal brand demonstrated through your CV and LinkedIn profile.
Learning how to network effectively and deepen your professional relationships.
Learning how to succeed at recruitment exercises such as interviews and assessment centres.
Building confidence and assertiveness through out the job hunting process and at work
How to deal with stress and improve your confidence at work and through life.
I can help you if you want to get more from your Life and your career, whether this is changing jobs, a full career change or dealing with issues in your personal life. I can provide expert coaching, based on personal experience and current thinking; Personal, one-to-one coaching sessions (either face to face or over Zoom); and focused interventions to help you develop strategies and plans boost your confidence and tackle the issues you need to address.
These are some of the specific, focused areas where I can help. Each of these can be addressed individually or as a combined package
Self Assessment and Self Awareness - Understanding your strengths, weaknesses and values, Assessing your transferable skills, Obtaining feedback from friends and colleagues. Self reflection and self analysis. Identifying those skills that you particularly enjoy using and use well and developing tangible evidence for these skills.
Identifying your career options and career choices - Understanding your skill and competencies, Defining your talents and motivations, Assessing what would be a good career for you. Assessing the type of change you could make. Defining your ideal job or career. Getting feedback to refine your choices. Career assessment and options evaluation.
Personal Development - Improving your self confidence. Developing positive habits. Dealing with Stress. Improving confidence and communication skills. Dealing with others and developing relationships. Addressing and developing your weaknesses and learning points, How to embark on a process of self development, Self Coaching and getting constructive feedback. Improving your self confidence.
Planning your Job Search - Creating a realistic activity plan to achieve your goals. Understanding what to target and how to target the Marketplace. Understanding both the advertised and unadvertised Job Markets. Preparing effectively for each job application. Keeping your plan on track and maintaining momentum.
Increasing your Network - How to build a powerful network, How to use friends and family to expand your network, Using Linked in and Social Media effectively, How to set up and manage referral meetings. How to use your existing contacts to expand your network. How to use your network to improve your Job search and access the unadvertised job market.
Developing a powerful CV - Making you CV stand out from the crowd, Developing a personal statement, and cover letter that will get you noticed, Tailoring your CV for maximum impact, Use of keywords and search phrases. What to include and what to leave out.
Improving your Interview Technique - Interview preparation, Interview practice including face to face situations that you will encounter - including interviews and offer meetings. Refining your approach, Managing salary discussions and getting the best deal, Increasing your confidence at interviews and dealing with difficult questions.
Marketing yourself - Making yourself stand out above the competition, identifying the right head-hunters and recruiters and directly approaching selected organisations, Using Social media and Linked-in to drive forward your job search or career change, How to make direct approaches to Organisations.
Techniques
There are many tools and techniques that can be used to help with your self assessment, career-planning and personal / life skills development.
However, only a few will give you the practical insights that will enable you to take charge of your situation and form a clear plan that you can own and implement successfully.
Some are very practical - they will involve exercises to practice and test out in safe situations. These can bring rapid results and significant improvements to your approach that you (and others)will notice.
Some will require you to think and plan, to create a vision for the new 'you', your new job or career choice and creating an action plan for 'making it happen'.
Using the right mix of techniques and methods, coupled with a tailored approach to match your personality and learning style, we will, together, enable you to address your issues, seek out a new job or embark on a new satisfying and rewarding career.
The first step is starting on the journey.
Contact me by email
david@careersolutionsltd.co.uk
Contact me by phone
07972 560 939
David Hilliard
Career Solutions Ltd is a Company registered in England and Wales with Company Number 12836056