At Career Horizons, we stand ready to help with any aspect of your career or job search you might have questions around—whether this involves exploring new employment directions, updating your resume and LinkedIn profile, boosting your lead generation efforts, or mastering the dynamics of the modern interviewing process.

As for the types of individuals we’ve supported, we’ve assisted professionals in almost every occupational niche and industry imaginable.  While far from a complete list, a quick breakdown of the client categories we’ve assisted to date includes senior executives (CxOs, VPs, Directors), line managers, individual contributors, entrepreneurs, HR professionals, career changers,  veterans, return-to-work candidates, and college students / new graduates.

Below you’ll find further information around all of our privately-paid coaching options and if you’d like to receive a full brochure outlining all of our programs and pricing in detail, please don’t hesitate to e-mail us here!

While answering the question “what should you be when you grow up?” (or “now that you HAVE grown up?”) is always a challenging one, we routinely assist individuals in assessing their career journey to date, evaluating their marketable strengths, and analyzing the possible new career paths that might be the best fit.  Our approach involves using a blend of both guided questioning, along with powerful modern AI tools, to help a person uncover a relevant array of occupational options — and then coaching them, if needed, on the best methods for conducting informational interviews and starting to pursue the new direction, if desired.

For individuals who need help developing a resume from the ground up, or who are wondering if their current resume is portraying their qualifications in the best possible light, we stand ready to help.  Drawing upon over 30 years of experience, we pride ourselves on helping people “cut through the confusion” that exists today in the resume world and on explaining the principles most likely to lead to success in today’s hiring process.  If needed, we can either draft a new resume completely from scratch or simply provide the needed edits to an existing document — and all of our work is done in-house, versus many services which utilize outside subcontractors.

Despite the LinkedIn website being around since 2004, and attracting over a billion members, very few people (in our experience) have a true understanding of the site’s awesome capabilities and how to leverage it most effectively in a job search capacity.  As a result, we’ve spent 20 years teaching people of all skill levels how to get the most mileage out the site, in addition to writing/editing thousands of profiles geared toward helping people become more “findable” by the audiences they’re seeking to target.  So whether you’re a novice user or already have a pretty good handle on LinkedIn’s capabilities, we’re confident we can show you a few tricks of the trade that will enhance your networking success and take your LinkedIn presence to the next level.

Given the sea of AI-generated cover letters which are now glutting the job market, a truly authentic and well-crafted letter can help a candidate stand out from the crowd more than ever and give them an edge over the competition.  If needed, Career Horizons can help you draft a rock-solid letter that portrays your capabilities in the best light and that can be easily modified for all types of roles, going forward, in order to improve your chances of landing interviews.

While many people tend to assume that a lack of job search success hinges mainly on one’s resume, the reality is that “what you do with the resume” typically plays an even greater role in the eventual outcome.  Far too many job hunters, in our experience, are pinning all of their hopes on simply applying to published openings — which are extremely competitive and often rigged behind the scenes — instead of engaging in the diverse mix of networking, company outreach, and recruiter contact approaches that can greatly improve their odds of success.  As a result, we stand ready to coach people on a number of advanced job lead generation strategies and help them come up with the game plan most likely to generate consistent interviewing activity.  Clients of the firm also gain access to numerous propietary tools we’ve developed, such as our one-of-a-kind J.A.W.S. (Jobs Across Washington State) database that tracks open opportunities at over 10,000 employers around the region.

While many people are naturally good presenters, there’s a fine art to putting one’s best foot forward in the pressure of an interview scenario.  On top of this, we find that many job hunters aren’t factoring in the reality that the competition level in interviews has risen and become significantly greater than it has been in decades past.  Given all of this, many job hunters benefit greatly from receiving expert objective feedback about their interviewing skills and participating in a handful of mock interviews where they get candid feedback on how they come across and can potentially improve.  Our work in this area goes far beyond the basic tips that traditional books and websites offer — covering numerous advanced strategies/approaches we’ve found effective for job hunters at all levels.  Additionally, we specialize in teaching clients how to effectively “talk money” with employers and negotiate the best possible compensation package when the time comes.

Granted, while most of our clientele comes to us seeking immediate tactical help with finding a new opportunity, we also have spent many years advising ambitious professionals on how to proactively manage their careers — and on the steps they can take to continually improve their marketability, stay a step ahead of layoffs, and position themselves for long-term success.  So if you’re a working individual looking to help bulletproof your career for the future and/or establish yourself as a thought leader, we stand ready to share the best practices we’ve learned from over 30 years of watching people both succeed and struggle in the modern market.