Clients and Their Stories

We work with high potential managers, technical or creative professionals, administrators and support staff who want to be in charge of their careers and their destinies. Here are recent examples of clients, their challenges and the results they achieved. through Career Power Coaching and Career Transition Services.

#1: Career Decision: Stay or Go

Because of a change in the company’s strategic direction, a project engineer, with 22 years tenure, was facing potential termination unless he could find another position within a nine month time frame. Also, part of the package was a substantial bonus to continue at his present job until the “bitter end”. The results:

• A decision to stay as long as he can and seriously look for internal opportunities.
• A strategy for networking and self-marketing to other divisions, departments and plants.
• A lateral position, without a reduction in salary, was accepted. He said, “You need to decide if the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t know out there.”

#2: Career Transition: Surprise! Surprise!

A young professional architect, diagnosed with a chronic disease, had to come to terms with her inability to continue working in a project team environment that required 60 to 70 hour workweeks. She first stepped down to a less demanding position with a lesser salary. Then she examined her short and long term career, health and financial options. The results:

• Re-assessment of career motivators using now her skills of client relationship management, marketing research and creative expression.
• A decision to remain in the real estate / construction industry but in a different capacity – from design and production to business development.
• A new job with a $40,000 increase in salary which lead to the realization that having a chronic disease is not a disability but an impetus for a new beginning.

#3: Career Change: A New Industry and Position

A mid-level finance professional, after receiving his Executive MBA, wanted to transition from corporate finance to investment management. This required leaving a 10 year employment with an information services company and finding a new position in the banking industry. A revised resume, strategic networking and a highly motivated presence led to:

• Increased confidence to go out into the marketplace and compete with “younger” MBA graduates.
• A position with a firm that appreciated his background and maturity and therefore quickly moved him up the career ladder.
• The sense that a career transition and subsequent job search does not have to be a stressful, demoralizing experience. “I prepared now for the future, whatever it brings.”

It’s Time To Invest In Your Future!

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Thank you for helping me deal with my career dilemma: To remain with the company, as it reorganizes again, or to move on. You’ve done your job, now it’s time to do mine.