When I say, "Speak like a human", I mean speak like yourself. There are two headspaces I notice clients get into. The first is what I call "Super-Proving!", where they are compelled to over-explain their background in a way that is hard to follow and results in the message getting muddled. The opposite end of this is "Under-Proving", where clients don't even know how to say anything about their experience. This results in having no message at all. In both cases, clients are not speaking like themselves. Humanizing the job search experience is a key take away in the work I do with my clients and helps them to easily communicate what they do and have to offer.

Working with me, we shift the perspective from someone looking for a job to someone who is an expert at what they do who is looking for clients. It is shifting from "I want to be your employee. Please hire me!" to "I'm a consultant who would help your company/project to kick-ass.”

My aim is to give you a resume that showcases your leadership...period. I have had clients come to me with four versions of their resume that highlights different accomplishments in a variety of formats and none of them really showcase the person's leadership. This is not to say two separate resumes might be appropriate, but rather to say, regularly overhauling your resume for each job is a crazy-making activity. I don't suggest it.

This is the big trick of the job search experience: it often makes people feel like they simply will never get hired. This fear is woven in. I have worked with hundreds of clients and every single one of them had an amazing skillset, including both hard and soft skills, that any company would be lucky to have. You are no different from previous clients I've had who got jobs very quickly after working with me.

I include this fifth statement not even as a belief but as a fact. My clients come from a variety of backgrounds, in all manner of industries and life circumstances. You are not the only one struggling to verbalize what you do. You are not the only one looking to make a huge career transition. You are not the only one who hasn't worked for several years. You are not the only one who got laid off due to Covid. You are not alone and I am here to help.