Job Search Coaching

Land Your Next Role Faster

Our clients consistently secure interviews faster, receive stronger offers, and report higher confidence throughout the hiring process.

We combine up-to-date knowledge of recruiter behavior, HR practices, macro and industry-specific hiring trends, and AI-assisted best practices with a deeply human, accountability-driven coaching model.

Stop Guessing, Start Progressing

Looking for work is a lonely experience. It’s just you, your keyboard, AI bots, and the whole of the Internet.

Maybe you don't know where to start. Maybe you're stalled out. Or maybe your burned out and looking for a reset.

You're wondering “Am I doing it right? Can I get a better response?”

Yes, you can.

Get out of the maddening cycle of maximum effort with minimal reward.

Whether you're a recent graduate, a mid-career professional, and aspiring manager, or an accomplished executive, we can supercharge your job search.

What Our Job-Search Coaching Covers

You'll work with a multi-certified, masters-degreed coach one-on-one to sharpen all aspects of your job-search and keep you on track.

• Personal Branding -- It's easy to lose sight of your story. We'll help you recover an authentic human-sounding narrative that unifies your work history, whatever path you've taken and challenges you've faced.
• Job-Search Strategy & Execution -- Stop playing the numbers game. No more shooting in the dark. Let's be intentional about who you're targeting and how. We'll guide you in building a plan and work alongside you to execute it.
• Networking & Lead Generation -- The most successful job seekers don't apply to jobs; they create opportunities. We'll show you how to network comfortably, both online and offline, including exploiting insider hacks on LinkedIn.
• Connections & Contacts -- We may already know people in your field or at your dream companies who can shortcut you to the front of the line. And if that's not an option, we'll help you find those people who can open doors.
• Market Insights & Trends. -- Based in San Francisco/Silicon Valley, we've got our finger on the pulse. We can give you up-to-minute insights into how you're performing relative your peers, who's hiring, what's possible, and what's not, in this climate.
• Accountability & Action -- Successful job searches require continuous movement, experimentation, and adjustment. We'll keep you on task and making progress. We'll both challenge and support you.

Don’t Be One in a Million. Be in a Class All Your Own.

It's likely you're doing the same thing everyone else is doing -- searching for open jobs, using AI to tailor your resume and cover letter, applying to as many jobs as you can, and… getting lost in the shuffle. Or maybe you're networking but it's not panning out as you expected.

We'll help you work smarter, not harder to keep your energy up, restore hope, find people, start conversations, and reach the light at the end of the tunnel.

Tailored to Your Needs

We can work with you across several months or team up in a single power-packed session.

If you're eager to jumpstart our convesation, consider completing our self-paced Job-Search Success Course, which has the greatest impact when paired with a 2 hours of coaching.

Total investment: $225/hr

Interview Preparation Done Properly

Talk through your answers with us so we can refine your approach. You're probably doing a lot of things right but one wrong move and it can cost you the interview. We'll make sure your presentation is perfect.

Never go into an interview in a reactive mode. Always have an agenda – a message you want to convey with a carefully thought out value offering that will ensure you are remembered for all the right reasons.

No More "Gotcha" Moments

Once you have your story straight, it's easy to answer trick questions. We have some great strategies to equip you to handle whatever they throw at you.

Your story needs to be detailed, compelling, and believable. The people on the other side of the table need to see themselves in your future. Let's put them there.

Ace Any Interview

Whatever your concerns, you can be the candidate they want.

• Answer the toughest questions
• Explain sticky points in your history
• Enjoy networking and interviewing
• Pass behavioral/situational interviews
• Satisfy recruiters so they work for you
• Learn what interviewers are thinking
• Address panic, rambling, and blanking
• Build rapport and create a dialogue
• Negotiate a great salary

Come Out On Top

You already have all the elements of a good story. We just need to pull it out of you and remind you of all the great things you have to share, in a way that builds empathy, hope, and excitement in you as well as in your interviewer. That's how you win the game.

Total investment: $225/hr

How Are You Using LinkedIn?

LinkedIn has become synonymous with "job search."
Recruiters find potential employees through LinkedIn keyword searches; employers post LinkedIn job listings; HR screeners check references through LinkedIn; and millions of professionals are using LinkedIn to share ideas, research companies, and open up possibilities for themselves.

Whether or not you use social media on a personal basis, the benefits of LinkedIn are relevant to you as a job-seeker:

• Jump to the top of the applicant pool
• Get on recruiters' radar
• Avoid getting dinged for keyword stuffing
• Find out where your profile is failing
• Start conversations with VIPs
• Understand the AI ontology of LinkedIn

Enter LinkedIn Bootcamp

LinkedIn keeps changing the game. And the algorithm. And their AI strategy. We can catch you up because it's our business to know these things.

As Nationally Certified Online Profile Experts (NCOPE), we're trained in LinkedIn specifically. Better still, all NCOPEs attended monthly webinars to learn the latest and greatest about the platform. And we're here to share that info with you.

Promote Your Story

We've written hundreds of LinkedIn profiles and done extensive research to figure out what works and what doesn't in terms of appeasing the AI engine and getting our clients noticed. 

We'll coach you on building a white-hat, keyword-rich profile that both bots and humans can parse through easily. Having seen the back-end that recruiters use, we'll show you the ins and outs of where to put keywords and how to position yourself so your profile gets found.

Multiply Your Impact

We will demystify the ever-evolving platform of LinkedIn and give you a few a-ha moments, so you can better leverage its capabilities and increase the opportunities that come your way.

Total investment: $225/hr

Learn The Most Effective Job-Search Methods in Today's Job Market

Job-seekers are getting rejected en masse. Rejection emails come within 24 hours, sometimes in just minutes. It's the most frustrating thing in the world.

In this economy, with so many people out of work, with companies getting hundreds of applications per week, with the growing distrust of unknown applicants (due to AI-generated applications), and with the increasingly impersonal nature of the hiring process, you have to be sure you're doing everything right.

Change the Game and You'll Change Your Outcome

We’ve come up with a fresh job-search model that will change your way of thinking, create opportunities, and fill your day with things you actually want to do.

We introduce a networking strategy that’s comfortable, practical, and, dare we say, enjoyable. It’s common lore that no one likes networking, but you might just find that you do when you try it the BrightSide way.

In using the BrightSide Job-Search guide, you'll:

• Experience more success with less effort
• Convince more people to respond to you
• Beat the inside hire at top companies
• Be able to be your authentic self and win

Don't Waste Time... Or Energy

Our job-search coaching has helped thousands of people go from being unheard and unseen to being discovered, appreciated, and (most notably) called back. More importantly, it's designed to prevent burnout.

You’ll know exactly what to do when you wake up in the morning (hint: it’s not scrolling job boards and hating your life).

Everything You Need In a Step-By-Step Guide

All of our advice for conducting a proper job search can’t fit into a single 1-hour conversation. That’s why we’ve packaged it up into a video series: 5 modules, 19 lessons. Between each lesson, you’ll have very simple to-do items which will build upon each other as you go through. Our intent is to hold your hand through the process, and if you need even more support, you can go with the Course + Coaching option to get some undivided attention. Either way, we’re going to change your perspective. And your outcome.

What you Get

• 19 Video Lessons
• Online & Offline Networking Tips
• Communication Templates & Prompts
• Hooks, Subject Lines, & Convo Starters
• Informational Interview Guide
  (you're doing it wrong)
• Cover Letter Package
• Action Packet Workbook

Plus Some Bonuses:

• Our Favorite Job Search Tools
• "Productive Procastination Cheat Sheet
• Our BrightSide "Unstuckerizer"

*For some personalized attention, consider adding an hour of job-search coaching.

Total investment: $175