Job Search Coaching
Did you know that 38% of all jobs never get posted to a job board at all? Use career coaching tools like executive access and networking genius to land jobs on the hidden job market.
Ensure Your Success
with Our 5-Step Job Search Process
1
Clarify Your Brand
2
Formulate Your Action Plan
3
Master Executive Access
4
Get Coaching & Mentoring
5
Receive Multiple Offers
Become the Inside Candidate -
Land the Best Opportunities for Your Career
Your career is more than a series of jobs. It's the path you chart across your professional life to achieve your personal goals. Our coaching helps you identify and work toward achieving those goals.
Our program (offered at Professional, Executive, and Federal level) includes ...
- Expanding your network of advocates
- Getting in front of decision makers
- Gathering information to strengthen your negotiating position
- Presenting yourself as a highly valued contributor
- Positioning yourself for rapid advancement, while maintaining healthy and rewarding professional relationships
What Our Job Search Coaching Offers
Cover letters and resumes are perfect for landing cold opportunities if you can fall in the top 2% of applications. But the average job receives hundreds of applications. To compete effectively for these jobs, and be sure you’ll land in a good place, you’ll want to get career strategy coaching.
Coaching sessions help you determine where you’ll be happiest and how to land your dream job using multiple strategies. Breaking into warm and hot opportunities—ones where you become a known, respected resource—will put you in front of more employers and their recruiters.
Stop missing out on jobs on the hidden job market (38% of the total). Break into new opportunities with our coaching that’ll help you uncover or create your dream job, while positioning yourself as the perfect resource for it.
How Job Search Coaching Benefits You
Whether you are an executive or an individual contributor, there are thousands of hidden jobs on the market that you aren’t aware of. Since this hidden job market is less formal, working it enables you to get high-paying jobs faster—with less competition.
- Understand yourself and get strategies tailored to your personality.
- Get more interviews using our persuasive cover letter and resume.
- Determine your criteria for and identify organizations where you will thrive.
- Get coached on how to build and implement your plan to get your dream job.
- Prepare yourself mentally to receive the perfect job for you (the inner game).
- Build a network of people who can hire or refer you. Become a networking genius.
- Bypass HR and get in front of decision makers with our executive access strategies.
- Be prepped to get more offers using our Interview Aikido training.
- Relax, knowing this package includes a guarantee that you will get an offer.
Why People Love Us
At YES, each client gets the VIP treatment. Depending on the package you choose, you will be assigned a client success manager, career coach, interview coach, resume interviewer, resume writer, and one to two resume editors—all dedicated to ensuring you get results.
When the opportunity arose for me to move jobs, YES was right there. From how to interview to how to negotiate.
Brian S.
Senior Cybersecurity Risk Analyst
I became more effective in reaching out to people and enlisting advocates after working with Michael. I thought the whole team was integral to my success.
Annette K.
Sr. Director
Thanks to YES services, I landed my dream job today! I cant thank you enough for the help YES has been to my career.
Becky Z.
Clinical Operations Executive
Michael’s sessions were really useful. My favorite was ranking what I value most in my career. It helped me land the job I wanted through networking.
Ayana P.
Senior Manager
Rapid Success Packages
Those who want complete job search support and/or a job offer guarantee will choose a Rapid Success Package. In addition to a client success manager, resume interviewer, resume writer, and one to two resume editors, you will also have an interview coach and Certified Career Coach—ensuring you get results.
Career Rocket Fuel
For 0-2 years of experience only
What’s in it:
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- Dream Job Triple Accelerator Guide
- LinkedIn Profile
- Raining Recruiters Guide
- Interview Coaching
- Interview Guarantee
Benefits:
$1247
financing starting at
$12 / month
Career Strategy Rocket Fuel
For 0-2 years of experience only
What’s in it:
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- Dream Job Triple Accelerator Guide
- LinkedIn Profile
- Raining Recruiters Guide
- Interview Coaching
- Career Potential Report
- 8 Career Strategy Sessions
- Offer Guarantee
Benefits:
$2294
financing starting at
$23 / month
Career Transformation Rocket Fuel
For 0-2 years of experience only
What’s in it:
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- Dream Job Triple Accelerator Guide
- LinkedIn Profile
- Raining Recruiters Guide
- Interview Coaching
- Career Potential Report
- 12 Career Strategy Sessions
- Offer Guarantee
Benefits:
$2794
financing starting at
$28 / month
Career Rocket Fuel
What’s in it:
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- Dream Job Triple Accelerator Guide
- LinkedIn Profile
- Raining Recruiters Guide
- Interview Coaching
- Interview Guarantee
Benefits:
$1397
financing starting at
$14 / month
Career Strategy Rocket Fuel
What’s in it:
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- Dream Job Triple Accelerator Guide
- LinkedIn Profile
- Raining Recruiters Guide
- Interview Coaching
- Career Potential Report
- 8 Career Strategy Sessions
- Offer Guarantee
Benefits:
$2444
financing starting at
$24 / month
Career Transformation Rocket Fuel
What’s in it:
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- Dream Job Triple Accelerator Guide
- LinkedIn Profile
- Raining Recruiters Guide
- Interview Coaching
- Career Potential Report
- 12 Career Strategy Sessions
- Offer Guarantee
Benefits:
$2944
financing starting at
$29 / month
Executive Career Rocket Fuel
What’s in it:
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- Dream Job Triple Accelerator Guide
- LinkedIn Profile
- Raining Recruiters Guide
- Interview Coaching
- Interview Guarantee
Benefits:
$1647
financing starting at
$16 / month
Executive Career Strategy Rocket Fuel
What’s in it:
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- Dream Job Triple Accelerator Guide
- LinkedIn Profile
- Raining Recruiters Guide
- Interview Coaching
- Career Potential Report
- 8 Career Strategy Sessions
- Offer Guarantee
Benefits:
$2694
financing starting at
$27 / month
Executive Career Transformation Rocket Fuel
What’s in it:
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- Dream Job Triple Accelerator Guide
- LinkedIn Profile
- Raining Recruiters Guide
- Interview Coaching
- Career Potential Report
- 12 Career Strategy Sessions
- Offer Guarantee
Benefits:
$3194
financing starting at
$32 / month
Federal Career Rocket Fuel
What’s in it:
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- Dream Job Triple Accelerator Guide
- LinkedIn Profile
- Raining Recruiters Guide
- Interview Coaching
- Interview Guarantee
Benefits:
$1725 - 1925
financing starting at
$17 / month
Federal Career Strategy Rocket Fuel
What’s in it:
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- Dream Job Triple Accelerator Guide
- LinkedIn Profile
- Raining Recruiters Guide
- Interview Coaching
- Career Potential Report
- 8 Career Strategy Sessions
- Offer Guarantee
Benefits:
$2772 - 2972
financing starting at
$28 / month
Federal Career Transformation Rocket Fuel
What’s in it:
- Resume
- Cover Letter
- Dream Job Triple Accelerator Guide
- LinkedIn Profile
- Raining Recruiters Guide
- Interview Coaching
- Career Potential Report
- 12 Career Strategy Sessions
- Offer Guarantee
Benefits:
$3272 - 3472
financing starting at
$33 / month
Job Search Coaching Success Stories
Job Offer Guaranteed
You get a better job or get back to work, guaranteed. Assuming you do your part, we'll keep coaching you until you get an offer you want. Then, after we help you with salary negotiation, how to celebrate? Champagne? Dinner with your sweetie pie? A massage? A vacation before your start date? We can’t wait to give you your edge for success.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Almost everyone—whether you are an individual contributor or an executive leading other professionals —can benefit from career coaching. In the following section, we will cover a broad range of scenarios where you can benefit from engaging an executive or career coach. (The title of the coach just depends on where you are in your career.)
Here are some scenarios in which career coaching services can have a significant impact on your career:
Setting yourself up for a promotion or new job
Olympic champions hire coaches because their goals and ambitions in sports go way beyond people who just dabble in a sport. Similarly, if you are serious about your career goals compared to other individuals at your level, you need to do what it takes to set yourself apart. Someone with a long career in coaching can help you assess where you are, where you want to get in your organization, and what is the best course of action to take. They will also stay with you as an accountability partner to make sure you keep your eyes on the prize.
Long-term career planning
Similarly, you may be looking beyond your current position or even profession and are wondering what kind of work will get you excited. A career or executive coach can lead you through a process of determining this. Once you decide, you’ll need to know what will be required not only to make a transition but also to excel in your new profession, and a good career coach can help with both.Or, if you are seeking a higher-level role in your existing profession, you’ll want to determine how to achieve that. Again, engaging someone with a successful coaching career can help you stay focused on those goals and navigate around the challenges you will encounter. That is how a career coach can help not only with your plans but also with making sure you achieve your goals in record time, while enjoying that journey of growth.
Managing up
According to Harvard Business Review, managing up is about “being the most effective employee you can be, creating value for your boss and your company.” Engaging a career coach can help you turn your daily work into a healthy, successful, and rewarding endeavor. This endeavor will not only benefit everyone involved but will also inspire them to become your champions who advocate for your rapid career success.
Leading people to achieve goals
President Eisenhower defined leadership as “the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” A career coach can help you master this art, applying it to your self-mastery, as well as to motivating others to fully support the achievement of your goals.
Resolving interpersonal conflicts at work
Becoming emotional about personal conflicts drains your energy, and the first casualty of that energy drain is your ability to creatively resolve conflicts to everyone’s benefit. Your career coach can help you step back from the stress of those conflicts and discover new perspective on how you can get what you want—not at the expense of others but with their full support.
Working effectively with people of different styles
One of the first benefits of career coaching is an appreciation of your own personality style—your strengths and pitfalls. Your career coach will help you develop a keen eye on how to observe these traits in your daily activities and how to act in a way to fully leverage those strengths. But even more importantly, your career coach will help you become more aware of other people’s styles. The benefit of this is that instead of approaching differences emotionally, you can leverage those differences to build a high-performing team to work with.
Taming a toxic workplace
As a team leader or an executive, there can be nothing more frustrating than inheriting a toxic work environment. Your career coach or your executive coach can help you introduce the practice of talent optimization to such a workplace. Using scientific people data, you will not only quickly determine the roots of dysfunction but can also implement strategies to overcome them. If you are an individual contributor, your career coach can give you ideas for presenting your leadership with talent optimization solutions. These solutions will help them transform a toxic workplace into a harmonious one or an under-performing team into a high-performing one, and you will be the hero who inspired this.
Growing from feedback
Becoming aware of our blind spots is a good start, but proactively leveraging that awareness is essential for growing as a professional. Someone seasoned in career coaching will introduce you to new strategies to leverage feedback in a constructive way, even if it was delivered in an unconstructive way by a manager or colleague.
Harnessing your strengths to overcome obstacles
Our career coaching practice is provided by professionals seasoned in coaching careers who are armed with scientific people data. Harnessing this combination leaves no guesswork in charting a path where career growth equates with daily happiness, as well as financial rewards. Every obstacle will become another fun opportunity to sharpen your skills and expedite your career success.
Cost-benefit analysis on getting more qualifications
Should you invest tens of thousands of dollars, not to mention invaluable hours, in training, certifications, or a higher degree, or are there better strategies to accelerate your career success? Your career coaching partner will leverage years of experience working with other executives and professionals in your situation, as well as objective data to help you make this decision. They will help you conduct a realistic trade-off analysis as to what path would make the most sense for your unique situation.
Career coaching is an umbrella terms that covers various coaching programs we offer. Career strategy coaching and career coaching in many instances are similar. The exception is when someone hires a career coach not because they want to get a new job at a new employer but rather to reach their career goals, like becoming a better leader, getting promoted faster, and/or otherwise doing a great job at their current company. This latter example of career coaching is referred to as career advancement coaching or even executive coaching, depending on the current stage of one’s career.
Conventional job search coaching is typically focused on coaching someone to make sure they are clear about what they want in a new employer, advise on one’s marketing documents like resume and cover letter, determine what jobs the client should apply for, and how to apply for them on job boards. Career strategy coaching, in addition to all the activities we mentioned about conventional job search, trains you on how to build a network of advocates that can help you get in front of employers for the 38% jobs that are not advertised. It also includes advanced interview coaching, which trains you on how to gather better information to get more offers and be armed with arguments to use in salary negotiation. Using career strategy coaching, you may end up competing with far fewer competitors and even become the “inside” candidate!
Career coaching may not be worth it if you have not clarified your goals and why those goals are important to you. On the other hand, you can work with a career coach to discover what is really important to you and become fully aligned with the prospect of achieving those goals. When you are in that state, career coaching will be priceless, because you will live your life excitedly and in anticipation of what you have defined as most important to you. When you get excited about your goals, a few things happen: your focus sharpens, you operate in the flow, and rather than dissuading you, obstacles challenge you to be more creative in pursuing your path. Is it worth it to live a life of excitement as you continuously reach and set higher goals that bring you happiness?
- Prior to the first session, you complete three items: personality assessment, Career Strategy Assignment 1, and your career worksheet.
- Using this information and our conversation, we identify your strengths and weaknesses, career preferences, skills, timeline, etc.
- For clients who are considering a career change, you use our proprietary tool to narrow down the best options, based on the above criteria.
- Using your personality information and your goals, we jointly agree on your branding strategy and an implementation plan that works for you.
- We teach and coach you on our Executive Access and Networking Genius techniques to break into positions that are not even advertised.
- We identify where you are stuck, make course corrections, and use our Inner Game technology make sure you remain motivated to succeed.
- We teach you what to ask and listen for in your interviews to get data that help you negotiate better compensation.
- We discuss your performance in interviews and how successfully you applied our Interview Aikido techniques.
- When you are offered a position, we review the offer and plan your negotiation strategy to get the best deal.
- When you are starting your new job, we coach you on strategies to position you for job satisfaction and rapid promotion..
Yes. We have had clients all over the world; location makes no difference. Career coaching services are typically done by Zoom, and we have both noon-time and evening times Eastern available to accommodate different time zones.
Yes, we do! The service includes a video, written guide, and 90-minute mock interview with coaching by President Katherine Akbar—the world’s only Interview Aikido coach—and is 397. Check our reviews to see how much people love and benefit from this.
Of course! We’ve had many clients sponsored by someone who cares about them. We recommend that that person be involved in the consultation to give us information and think about what they most need. If you have a limit on what you’re willing to spend, we can limit the conversation to those services, or we can discuss pricing separately if you want to keep it secret.
If your LinkedIn profile is search engine optimized for the kind of position you want, recruiters/headhunters will find you there when they have a job that seems right for you. Our clients who get our LinkedIn service are contacted by 8 recruiters on average! While contacting recruiters/headhunters isn’t usually a great use of your time—unless they specialize in your field—we do give you contact information for at least 14 of them in the guide we provide with your drafts. While our coaches are not recruiters, you will receive career coaching from professionals with a minimum of 8 years of coaching career. Our senior career coaches have had even longer coaching careers and in addition to careers in coaching most have had decades of experience as executives and business leaders. So while we do not place people, your career coach may have recommendations regarding specific companies and individuals to reach out to.
Yes, there is, if you get a career coaching package that gives you all the tools you will need.For smaller packages, you receive a satisfaction guarantee. If you require any changes to your resume, cover letter, or LinkedIn profile to make them perfect for the job you provided as a sample, we will take care of those for free.You will receive these guarantees in writing in our Professional Services Agreement. To get started, schedule your free Career Success Consultation here.