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 helped me take what felt like a disjointed career story and shape it into a clear, compelling narrative—both on my resume and in interviews. She validated my strengths in a way that felt both genuine and uplifting, and she guided me in bringing them to the forefront. I now answer interview questions with ease.
Her deep knowledge of the current HR landscape, paired with a warm, enthusiastic energy were both motivating and empowering. She was able to spot where I was feeling stuck or uncertain, and offered insightful tools to help me move through those blocks with confidence. I can’t recommend Marci highly enough.
~ non-profit leader and HSP
Job Search Coaching - How It Works
What you actually cover in each one-hour session is customized to where you’re at and your current needs.
Some common topics for sessions:
- 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.
Samples of other topic possibilities:
- Assessing the potential of better options within the current workplace. (Even if just for stress reduction in the meantime.)
- Gaining more clarity on what you have to offer and what you want, such as more understanding of your strengths and transferrable skills.
- Negotiating salary, job responsibilities, and benefits.
- Negotiating accommodations.
- Mock interview practice.
- Making networking easier and more effective, to fit your personality.
You’ll also learn how AI tools can help with any of these areas.
Two Ways to Access Job Search Support
- Val’s coaching clients have the option to swap out a session or two to meet with Marci on job search needs. We will decide together when it makes sense to do so.
- You can book a session directly with Marci using the inquiry form below.
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 collaborate with 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 over 20 years of experience helping people navigate the career and job search maze with more ease and confidence. She is diligent about staying up-to-date on today’s job search.
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 many 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.
She is highly skilled in working with clients representing a variety of industries, job functions and levels up to Senior VP/Director. She is familiar with non-profit and for-profit roles.
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
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
You can start or send questions by completing this no-obligation form and we will be in touch as soon as possible. (Some frequent questions are answered below the form.)
Your information will be treated with respect and confidentiality. Thank you for sharing what you can so we can understand where you’re at now.
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.
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 us a note below with questions and one of us will reply with our honest thoughts.
That’s a valid question. We 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 Marci 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, that could be built into a long-term strategy for getting you closer to your more preferred work.
- Sometimes contract work or other types of self-employment thrive more in down economies. (You can explore the self-employment option here.)
