Jobseeker support
A campaign of opportunity
At some stage in your career, there comes a point where you become clear about where you want to go next. This moment of clarity can come through self-reflection or by working with Career Analysts to help you make that decision – perhaps through our career guidance, career crossroads or career development programmes.
We understand that getting to where you want to go isn’t as easy as it seems. Moving to a new career requires planning a career change. Jobseeker Support is the tool that will help you get to your destination.
We work closely with you to plan your personalised self-marketing campaign. We do this by guiding you through a simple 3-step process:
Step 1 – Planning your campaign
This is the preparation stage of your self-marketing campaign. Together, we will help you set your goals, identify your key strengths and create your target list. We’ll do things like:
- Take stock of your career options
- Set your objectives for the future
- Identify target companies and roles
- Write your CV identifying themes and key strengths
- Unravel the right routes into the job market whether that’s through unadvertised or advertised roles, personal networking, or working with the right recruitment consultants
Step 2 – Launching and monitoring your campaign
Now you’re ready to take aim and launch your self-marketing campaign, targeting the right people in your network, and the best-matched companies. We’re with you every step of the way, and we’ll guide you through techniques such as:
- Finding suitable vacancies including advertised posts, using the internet, using recruitment consultants, personal contacts and making direct approaches.
- Writing compelling approach letters
- Completing applications the right way
- Targeting CVs at specific job applications
- Developing self-marketing options
Step 3 – Interviews and landing your new role
Once your campaign succeeds in getting you in the door, you need to be ready for your interview. We use effective one-to-one interview techniques coaching to get you prepared – and relaxed – for any interview, including panel interviews. Some of the skills we work on are:
- Preparing effectively
- Using body language in your favour
- Delivering a great follow-up
- Honing your telephone skills
- Getting comfortable with panels or multiple interviewers
Are you ready to create your Self-Marketing plan?
Let’s talk. You can register online any time, or you can ring us on 020 7935 5452 to talk some more about how we can help you move up to the next step of your career.
We run the Jobseeker Support programme in two formats – one more expensive than the other due to the amount of consulting time required.
Option 1 Extensive Self-marketing
10 hours of one-to-one career counselling following the 3 step process outlined above and including a comprehensive multi-purpose CV writing service.
This takes place over a number of sessions spread out over a few weeks. It is a hand-holding programme guiding you through the process and meeting specific milestones along your journey.
Option 2 Intensive Self-marketing
As option 1, but showing you how to achieve the aim yourself rather than helping you every stage of the way. This option is still one-to-one but is conducted in an intensive three hour session. The reference books are still provided for you to keep and use throughout your campaign and a CV will be produced using email and telephone contact.
It is still a very useful exercise but less expensive than the Extensive programme.