Career Transition Services

Strategic Job Search

Wouldn’t it be nice to feel a sense of direction and control over your career moves? When you start a job search in a rush, without preparing, you dramatically decrease the likelihood of landing something you really want and deserve. 

When you pursue or explore job opportunities, you are joining the market for talent and that means that you will usually be in competition with others for jobs and it means selling your offering to buyers, aka decision makers. In all cases, your job is to induce someone to say yes to you and ideally, you should have a specific idea about who that someone is. 

In fact, there are significant risks to not being market ready for your career transition. One of the problems with career transitions is that for many people, they have to happen Now! And that means entering the job market or the promotion shoot-out with being sufficiently prepared. Urgency is sometimes unavoidable, but when urgent replaces common sense preparation, there is a long list of risks you run into including: 

• Little or no response to your resume
• Poor interviewing performance
• Not being able to go for what you really want, or not knowing where you fit and what you want.
• Feeling like you don’t have choices and saying yes to the wrong opportunity (usually the first thing that comes around) and then spending months and years feeling trapped in the wrong job.
• Saying no to the right opportunity because you weren’t clear about your true values were or where you really fit.
• Precious time wasted.
• Longer job search, and perhaps a longer period of unemployment.
• Settling. Not getting your true value.
• Confidence crisis. 

8 Career Transition Steps to Get You Ready for Market


The 8 Market Ready Career Transition Steps form the foundation to effective career transitions. After conducting thousands of interviews, reviewing hundreds of thousands of resumes, and working personally with hundreds of clients, I can tell you with great certainty that effective job search is very much about good process. 

Successful job search and career change to a large extent is about good process. Following proven steps increases the likelihood that you will be in a situation where you feel like you are choosing, rather than settling for something that you really don’t want. 

As an executive, senior manager or senior professional, you are familiar with strategy. So, what is your strategy for your next move? If you don’t have a strategy, don’t false start. The biggest and most common issue in career transitions is a lack of preparation, forethought, strategy and focus. 

We have three ways to work together.

The Candidate Package

Candidates on an Executive Search or other senior hiring opportunities often need help immediately to enhance their candidacy with a stronger resume, improved interview strategy and sharper value proposition relative to the opportunity. As a former executive search consultant, Ian Christie understands how to successfully navigate the hiring process.
…..$1097

Strategic Job Search Package

This solution is designed for job seekers who know what their next move will be and who want to partner with an expert strategist to support, guide and advise through the process. You will work with Ian Christie from the start of your transition to successful completion. We will be there to help you qualify and strategize on leads and keep you on track. The focus of this package is on getting you ready to enter the market in a fully prepared, strategic way so that together, we have put the probabilities on your side for a successful transition.
…..$1997

Career Transition Retainer Package

The full process packages take you from the very beginning of your transition, with a strong, strategic start, through your execution / campaigning phase and ultimate achievement of your transition goal.
…..$3997

How We Work Together

Collaborate, Plan & Communicate: We are proud to use Basecamp as our online project management tool. As a client, you will receive your own, private project site where we will plan our work together, post files, manage tasks and milestones, and communicate via messages. And of course, we will use Email.

1-1 Meetings: The highest value hourly activity that we engage in together are the 1-1 meetings. These normally occur over the phone unless you happen to be local. We are proud to have clients from all over the US, Canada as well as from Europe and Asia. These meetings are pre-scheduled and typically have a specific agenda attached to them.

Homework: You will have homework to do. Some of it will be working through the worksheets / workbooks that we provide you with.

Our Side: Depending on the package you choose, we will write or edit your resume and cover letter for you, critique key documents like a draft reference letter, research and recommend search firms, or perhaps design a powerful Powerpoint deck or website for your brand.

Ad-hoc Phone Support: On-call telephone support is included meaning you are able to phone at any time should you have an immediate need (surprise interview).

Your Execution: Of course, the real magic happens when you apply the work we do together to the real world.

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