Career Coaching Services
Look at my client's career achievements!
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A Decision Support Manager was offered a new job as IT Director by prepping for her interview, knowing her worth, and negotiating her salary and perks.
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A banking Director evaluated her career, identified her skill gaps, and pivoted to Product Development within her company.
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A client was promoted from Financial Analyst to Financial Manager to Procurement Manager for a 30%+ salary increase with interview preparation, salary negotiation, and confidence coaching.
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A Backend Software Developer achieved a promotion to engineer at a Fortune 500 company with a few weeks of using her new resume that more clearly listed her technical skills and accomplishments.
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A Network Engineer received an offer from the first job they applied to after using their new, streamlined (and MUCH shorter) resume!
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An assistant at a startup moved to Executive Assistant to CEO of a major insurance company after clearly defining her many skills and accomplishments she had achieved by taking on additional responsibilities.
My Coaching Philosophy and How I Can Help You
I believe that tech job seekers sometimes need a little help getting unstuck—from an experienced coach and professional who can offer candid and straightforward advice. As your strategic partner, I’m here to help you overcome your career challenges, whether it’s translating technical skills to convey your business worth, strategizing your next career move, preparing for an interview, evaluating a job offer, and more.
I never use off-the-shelf programs. Instead, I offer flexible and one-on-one sessions tailored exclusively for you, ensuring a focused experience aligned with your unique career objectives.
Elev8 RISE Career Coaching Framework
Build a Tech Career Strategy That Gets Results
The ELEV8 RISE Career Framework helps you uncover your unique value and craft compelling stories that form the foundation for all your career materials—resumes, LinkedIn profiles, interview prep, and more. This framework positions you to confidently pursue targeted opportunities that accelerate your professional growth. My career coaching framework the following process:
REVEAL
ILLUSTRATE
STRATEGIZE
EXPLORE
Reveal your unique value proposition (UVP) - Identify the skills, strengths, and achievements that set you apart, creating an authentic personal brand that serves as the foundation for your career strategy and professional growth.
Illustrate your measurable impact - Translate your accomplishments and experiences into results-driven STAR narratives that demonstrate measurable outcomes and highlight your professional impact.
Strategize and build your career narratives - Align your resume, LinkedIn, job search, and interview strategies with your goals and target opportunities, ensuring consistent, compelling documents for recruiters and hiring managers.
Explore aligned opportunities - Focus on companies, roles, and industries that align with your values, strengths, and career goals, making your search efficient, rewarding, and positioned for growth.
It typically takes about 4 coaching sessions to work through the program.
The RISE Career Clarity Series
Session Objectives, Deliverables, and Results
The ELEV8 RISE Career Framework provides you with foundational and integrated information for all phases of your job search:
Session 1
Reveal Your Unique Value
Objective:
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Engage in discovery and assessment to uncover core strengths, differentiators, and success patterns that form your career foundation and professional brand.
Deliverables:
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Articulate your Unique Value Proposition (UVP)
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Identify key themes from past success stories using STAR framework.
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Build a personal brand positioning aligned to your voice and goals.
Method:
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Guided storytelling through coaching
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SWOT Analysis
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Value mapping exercise
Sample Results:
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Voice: Strategic, business-focused, no-nonsense.
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Brand Statement: “I translate operational complexity into enterprise growth strategy for pharmaceutical organizations."
Session 2
Identity Target Job/Career Stories
Objective:
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Identify target roles/industries through job exploration. Develop compelling accomplishments and career stories the support effective positioning and align with new personal brand and strategy.
Deliverables:
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1–2 target job titles/industries
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3–5 STAR-format aligned stories
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Branded elevator pitch
Method:
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Job analyses
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Target job to client's transferable skills & accomplish.
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Career brand storytelling framework
Sample Results:
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Target Role - Mid-career Software Engineer exploring transition into a Machine Learning Engineer role
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STAR Story - “Leveraged Python to build and deploy automated data cleansing tool, reducing file load prep time by 30% and reducing load errors to 0
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Transferable skills - Python, automation, applied analytics
Session3
Deliver Your Strategic Career Plan
Objective:
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Assess your skills, identify gaps, and create a tactical growth plan with market-aligned compensation expectations to your target job.
Deliverables:
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Self-directed growth/learning plan and skills list
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Compensation expectations and negotiation range.
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Personalized job search strategy including networking, resources, potential employers, industry targets.
Method:
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Target Job to Resume Gap analysis (skills, experience, credentials)
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Priority-learning planning matrix
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Compensation benchmarking
Sample Results:
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Skills/Experience Gaps – “Needs exposure to enterprise-level initiatives”
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Learning Plan – “Enroll in Prosci change management certification”
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Compensation - “Salary of $145K - $160K are in range of $156K average compensation for NJ”
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Job Search Strategy – “Target mid-sized healthcare drug companies in Boston area...
What You'll Gain from My Career Coaching
An Aligned Job Search Foundation
This section outlines the valuable career coaching outputs that clarify value, messaging, and direction to support resume, LinkedIn, Interview Prep, and job search efforts.
Resume:
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Clear articulation of your core value proposition and accomplishments that form the basis for your resume.
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STAR-format examples of your measurable impact and and business results.
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An inventory of skills and achievement language aligned to your target role(s)
LinkedIn Profile:
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Career stories and job accomplishments ready to showcase your expertise.
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Keyword and skills strategy ready to leverage in your profile
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An optimized profile with personal brand positioning and key messaging for your profile
Interview Preparation:
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Practiced and confident responses aligned to bring measurable impact for interviews.
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Understanding of your skill and career gaps.
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A ready list of STAR stories that demonstrate your skills and impact.
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Understanding of your worth and compensation benchmarking data.
Job Search/Networking:
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A personalized job search guide that can help you search effectively and with confidence.
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A targeted, efficient, and tightly aligned search strategy for companies, roles, and industries.
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An elevator pitch positioned for networking conversations.
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Strategic job search direction based on your goals and market fit.
A Career Strategy Success Story
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The Client: Chidima was working as VP of Sales and Client experience at PNC. She was interested in understanding how her skills, experience, and accomplishments could be leveraged for her next career move.
The Objective: Analyze her skills and experience and map which could be applied to her potential next jobs. Analyze any gaps and put together a plan to address those gaps.
The Solution/Outcome: We identified three potential career pivots that Chidima could pursue with varying degrees of additional education.
The Result : After reviewing potential next career steps, Chidima decided to stay at her company and pursue internal job opportunities that met her career goals.
Quote: "Lisa took me through a detailed process of self-discovery and helped me identify which jobs would best meet my personal and professional needs."
Personalized Coaching Services
As a Certified Career Coach, I provide focused, one-on-one support to help you clarify your goals, understand your strengths, and accelerate your professional growth. My background as a Compensation Analyst, Benefits Administrator, and manager of performance review systems uniquely positions me to guide you through complex career decisions with confidence. I'm a certified Strong Interest Inventory Administrator, and can provide career insights backed by decades of vocational psychology research. The services I offer:
1:1 Targeted Career Coaching
Tailored, one-on-one sessions deliver actionable insights and support to help you navigate your career path. Core coaching services include:
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Career Goal Setting
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Workplace Goal Coaching
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Retirement Job Transition Planning
Career Assessments & Insights
Gain a clear understanding of your strengths, motivations, and skill gaps to create a targeted, actionable career strategy.
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Strong Interest Inventory - Leverage one of the top career assessment tools in the world to identify core interests, motivations, and ideal role alignment for career changes, pivots, or the next position.
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Skills & Career Assessment – Evaluate current skills, uncover gaps, and map achievements to target opportunities for advancement.
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SWOT Analysis – Pinpoint strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to inform a focused and strategic career plan.
Let's work together to help you get what you need.
