Job Search Strategies
When seeking a new role are you:
- Needing a supportive and positive process because your role will be disestablished?
- Unable to clearly articulate your key strengths, achievements and drivers?
- In need of help with your current CV to ensure that it is well positioned for the market?
- In need of strategies for promoting yourself in the job market?
- Lacking confidence in interviews and looking for confidence and strategies to perform well?
We deliver the following individual modules via workshop and/or coaching session(s).
Self-Awareness
Understand what drives and fulfils you in work and career
Through the process of undertaking a range of self-awareness exercises and discussions we will assist you to identify your:
- Strengths – those skills which you are good at and enjoy using
- Values – the beliefs and motivators that provide you with purpose and meaning
- Areas of competence and interests
- Achievements – how you make a difference to your organisation
- Work/career targets that you want to pursue
- Industry/sector and organisation preferences you have
- Key work considerations and factors that bring enjoyment for you
Curriculum Vitae Development
Market yourself well
A well written and succinct CV is important for both internal and external applications.
A number of key considerations are important to take into account. We will assist you to:
- Identify key information to be positioned on the front page of CV. This ensures that your CV attracts attention and invites the reader to turn the page to find out more
- Highlight key strengths and how these would benefit the organisation
- Provide focussed achievements that demonstrate ability, experience and motivation
- Include additional relevant information that will support and promote you
- Ensure your CV is written in a succinct and focused manner and is checked thoroughly
- Ensure your CV is appropriately laid out to allow easy reading
Networking and Approaching the Market
Increase your chances of identifying vacancies
When entering the market place, whether by choice or through the effects of job re-structure, a range of key factors are vital to ensure a successful job search.
We will assist you to:
- Understand how the job market operates and know where to tap into opportunities
- Review and refine your work targets
- Complete a marketing plan
- Work effectively with recruiters to target particular organisations and/or positions
- Complete a letter promoting you to accompany your curriculum vitae
- Gain strategies to network in the “hidden” market (networking through referrals)
Interview Strategies
Promote yourself confidently and positively
Both internal and external interviews can be quite daunting. Often people feel very nervous and as a consequence don’t promote themselves as well as they could. Interviews are usually where a prospective employer first meets the candidate and forms their initial impressions of this person. Therefore it is vital to go into the interview well prepared. This means having high self-awareness, a very good knowledge of the organisation gained through extensive research and being convinced of the good match between both.
We will assist you to:
- Know the importance of preparation and research in demonstrating confidence in the interview
- Know the importance of first impressions and body language
- Be able to clearly articulate ability, willingness and “fit” to the role
- Understand the best way to answer behavioural and other questions that can sometimes be problematic
- Prepare key questions to ask in the interview that demonstrate interest and suitability for the position
- Handle salary questions
We offer an option of videoing a mock interview with you. This allows you to assess your competence, your body language and your reactions. Experience has shown that people can be very unaware of their idiosyncrasies.
First 90 days in your new role
Plan for success
We will assist you to:
- Develop key strategies to be successful on your first day, your first week
- Manage your career successfully
- Make some quick wins
- Know what you should be thinking about in your first month
- Review your progress regularly
Our job search strategies will:
- Assist you to confirm or identify your on-going career/work interests and provide you with strategies that will enhance the process of searching for a job
- Identify where you are at in the job search process and what the potential barriers are for you
- Identify what you would like to achieve as a result of our sessions
- Assist you to use the key factors above to confirm/identify the right work pathway for you
- Identify a range of options including industries and potential organisations to consider
- Provide you with the tools and strategies to write a good CV and promote yourself to employers
- Assist you to develop a marketing plan that will enhance the success of your job search
- Provide you with a range of strategies that will widen your approach
- Identify and assist you to work through any potential barriers
- Provide you with the key strategies that will enhance your confidence and impact in an interview
- Identify other issues that are relevant to your job search
Workshops: 2-4 hours depending on the module selected
Coaching: Is in hourly sessions with the number of hours dependent on individual requirements.
Related services:
Career outplacement (transition)
Networking and approaching the market
Financial options on redundancy
