Job Search Coaching
With Understanding for Introverts, HSPs, and Neurodivergence
Job searching can be draining and disheartening — endless applications into a black hole, rejections, bad fits, the pressure to keep smiling, or worse. It’s easy to start second-guessing your worth or direction.
If you’re ready for this to go much better, you can have an expert in your corner so you can navigate the process with more clarity, ease, and confidence.
When it’s time for the job search nuts and bolts, my job search expert, Marci, can help you refine your job search strategy and maximize your impact.
Marci understands how to align the approach with your introversion, high sensitivity, or neurodivergence (specifically autism and/or ADHD).
Marci was amazing! She was able to holistically organize my search results and tackle the topics I wanted to discuss. She was an amazing resource, especially because I’m neurodivergent, and she was able to help me stay on track.”
~ IT consultant
Job Search Coaching - How It Works
The standard 8-session package with Marci usually covers these essential job search needs:
- Specifying job wants and needs, including timeline planning.
- Job possibilities expansion — ideas related to your interests that you might not have known about.
- Creating a clear, comfortable way of talking about yourself and your wants, as useful for networking and interviewing.
- Résumé review and guidance to optimize for humans and automated screening systems.
- Interview prep
- Reviewing and understanding how to use 3 methods for job search – online search, networking, employment agencies/ recruiters.
- LinkedIn profile optimization and how to use LinkedIn for job search.
- Reviewing results and making strategy refinements.
You can also customize your sessions by swapping topics or adding sessions to focus on:
- Negotiating salary, job responsibilities, and benefits.
- Negotiating accommodations.
- Refining interviewing skills.
- Mock interview practice.
- Making networking easier and more effective.
- Finding more ease in your current work situation.
You’ll also learn how AI tools can help with any of these areas.
Is This for You?
This job search support service is a good fit when:
- You already have a general sense of jobs you’re seeking.*
- You are open to having the support of a caring, knowledgeable guide.
- You show up to appointments.
*If you’re not yet clear about your general career direction:
It’s time to get a little clarity first, and then the search becomes a lot easier. I can help with career clarity for introverts and/or highly sensitive people.
About Val - Career Coach
I’m Val Nelson. As a career and business coach for over 15 years, I help introverts and HSPs to find their clarity and confidence for what they have to offer and what they want.
Some of my career clarity clients choose to explore self-employment and I help with that too. Others choose the employment path.
Because job search has become more complex and ever-changing, I chose to hire someone who stays abreast of the latest, and who I trust to take good care of you. Enter Marci Shaffer, job search strategy coach!
About Marci - Job Search Coach
Marci brings 25 years of experience helping people navigate the job search maze with more ease and confidence. She is highly skilled in working with clients representing a variety of industries, job functions and levels up to Sr VP/Director.
She has a gentle spirit and a way of breaking things down into manageable pieces so that this bear of a project can finally get some traction. I have gotten to know Marci over time and she has helped some of my clients already and I consistently hear rave reviews.
She brings an additional expertise in supporting neurodivergent clients, specifically those who identify as autistic and/or ADHD, and how these affect career decisions and the job search process.
I cannot say enough good words about Marci! She is absolutely outstanding!!! Helped me so much, I could not have done it without her – thank you!”
~ principal scientist in a job search
Standard Plan
8 sessions
The sweet spot
that works for most people.
$1750
Abbreviated Plan
4 sessions
For those who want
a bit less for now.
$1000
Frequently Asked Questions
This job service is not a placement agency where someone does some of the search for you, but Marci can discuss whether and how to use those kinds of services.
Our services are about guiding you along the way so you can get things done with more ease and confidence. No more navigating alone in a dark tunnel.
If you have a sense of the field(s) of interest and a general idea of positions you might be interested in applying for, you’re ready for this. For instance, you already know you want to do something like project management in fields such as sustainability. It’s OK if you don’t know exact job titles or other related fields.
It’s OK if some parts are foggy. Marci can help you get more specific and open up additional possibilities that could also fit for you.
If you feel like you aren’t sure about the general direction, check out this Career Roadmap for Sensitive Souls – a free class, which can help you start to understand more about the factors to decide and what is a good next step for you. You are also welcome to pop me a note below, tell me more, and I can help you sort out a good next step.
When you get a little more clarity of direction first, the job search becomes a lot easier. Val can help with career clarity for introverts and/or highly sensitive people.
You’ll immediately get an email confirmation with instructions to begin the process of scheduling and preparing for your first session.
I’m sorry if that’s happening, and sadly it can so easily happen when considering job search, whether you’re searching by choice or not.
Marci and I both know how to be with the feelings, and our work tends to naturally help you find more confidence and hope even in such uncertain times. It also helps you discover new avenues that you hadn’t seen before.
If you’re not sure about your situation, feel free to pop me a note below with questions and I’ll reply with my honest thoughts.
That’s a valid question. Both Marci and I have helped people find their way during down economic times when it seemed like layoffs were everywhere. We continue to see this now.
We have discovered:
- Even while some places are laying off, some other places are growing, and we can help you navigate to find those gems.
- When you gain the clarity and confidence that comes out of this kind of support, you’re more able to shine as a good candidate.
- It might take longer in a down economy but it’s not a hopeless case.
- Even if you need some kind of “bridge work” for now, when you work on that goal in a strategic way, it can be just the thing for getting you closer to your dream work.
Yes, the job search package sessions are with Marci.
If something arises that Marci thinks might be best addressed by Val, we could discuss options such as swapping out one of the sessions so you could meet with Val.
Nearly 98% of employers use an automated tracking system (ATS) for applicants. This means your resume needs to be written and formatted in such a way that machines can understand it easily and know whether there’s a fit or not.
Marci guides you in creating a high impact resume that works with these systems.
Any Questions? Concerns? Feedback?
Use the form below to send me a note. I’ll get back to you shortly. Thank you.
