Career Transition Services

TCI offers a comprehensive career transition program that uses The 5 Elements of Success as natural steps to contextualize and leverage typical tasks in a (voluntary or involuntary) career transition.

Our clients are more likely to create a more satisfying new career that puts their "core gifts" to work for them, is congruent with their values, best suits their real needs, and makes them most happy with a reasonable kind of balance in their life and work.

SPECIFIC CAREER TRANSITION SERVICES:

1. Core Identity and Values:

• Determine your "Core Gifts" (what you innately do well; the best you)
• Discover and articulate core values
• Establish confidence, self-value/esteem
• Develop a stronger center of internal balance, confidence, calmness; learn centering techniques
• Answer vital questions: What are non-negotiable principles and ethics; what most important to you in next job)
• Learn how to connect with intuition and wisdom
• Decide what would create eudaemonic (purpose-driven) happiness for you
• Learn about yourself (elemental profile, typologies, career assets and liabilities)

2. Vision: 

• Examine your hopes and fears, the future you can see, what inspires you, where you are optimistic vs. pessimistic, inspired vs. bored 
• Look at your espoused beliefs and worldview - then test what's real, what's not
• Shift mental focus to the future you want to create,  one that uses your best gifts and reflects your hopes
• Generate and research many career option based on your gifts and hopes: the sky's the limit
• Conduct informational interviews to generate and sort options
• Conduct research to determine viable options and clarify those of most interest

3. Mission: 

• From the many options generated in the Vision phase, use your Core Values and Identity criteria to decide priorities for next career phase and your selection of next job/workplace
• Choose and commit to next direction 
• Create a public statement
• Write or rewriting resume/bio/capabilities statements so targeted for new direction
• Focus work search on new direction
• Exert passion and committed leadership in own search

4. Interactions: 

• Make connections and find contacts that support your new career direction 
• Network with clarity and focus; follow up on conversations and leads
• Take care of emotional health during ups and downs of career transition
• Pay attention to how you feel (about a lead, a job possibility, the people interviewing you)
• Find recruiters who support your career direction 
• Practice and polish interview skills
• Interview only for those jobs that are aligned with your mission, vision and core values
• Select and develop enthusiastic good references
• Pay attention to internal emotional compass so you stay on course

5. Structure:

• Develop and maintain good work search & life habits (e.g., steady schedule of hours allotted to career tasks, daily exercising, improving eating habits, plus setting aside regular time for fun)
• Stay the course; working steadily
• Steward resources to sustain search over the time you need to achieve your career goal
• Refine final job criteria (compensation, benefits, organizational culture, hours, commute, job responsibilities, diversity issues, physical workplace)
• Negotiating terms for job
• New Beginnings -- Start new job with new life and work habits solidly in place