DESCRIPTION & OVERVIEW

 

Bespoke career/life coaching programme for new graduates targeting careers in blue chip companies in the following sectors: Engineering, Investment Banking, Finance, Consulting, etc. As a starting point excluding the free discovery call, the programme will include 9 tailored sessions to meet your requirements.  The programme as a minimum will be:

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• 30 minutes initial consultation (Free discovery call) to see if coaching is right for you.  This will involve looking in depth at where you currently are in your personal journey in getting your career started.

• 10 hours of one-to-one contact time (one hour a week)

• Unrivalled blend of career coaching and career consulting 

• Tracking work progress of each session 

• Email mentoring between sessions

 

SUGGESTED PROGRAMME STRUCTURE

 

The proposed programme structure will consist of a 4 stage strategy framework.

 

 Stage 1: Creating an Impact

 

• Personal brand: what it is and how it can be used to your advantage. 

• Self-awareness: understand your strengths, skills and preferences. 

• Confidence: overcome your skills gaps and stretch your comfort zone. 

• LinkedIn: how to use it to support your career journey. 

• Application strategy: create an initial plan to keep you focused and on track. 

• Networking: learn how to do it (and love it) on your own terms. 

• CV essentials: high level advice and feedback

 

Stage 2: Quality Applications & Online Tests

 

• Research: how to conduct focused and thorough research.

• Career and firm motivation: how to properly articulate your motivation for pursuing your chosen career and for wanting to join a particular firm. 

• Skills and competencies: how to draw key skills and competencies out of your professional, academic, extracurricular and voluntary experiences and articulate these effectively.

 • Feedback: detailed verbal feedback on your draft CVs, cover letters or applications.

 • Psychometric tests: introductions to different types of tests, advice on how to approach these and recommendations of which resources to use to help you succeed. 

 

Stage 3: Interview Success & Rejection

 

• Content and structure: get to know yourself and your experiences so well that you can structure answers effectively, without having to memorise lengthy responses. 

• Commercial awareness: practical advice to help you develop commercial awareness within the role and company you are applying to.

• Delivery: manage your nerves, body language and delivery to improve your impact. 

• A graduate recruiter’s perspective: how to avoid common interview mistakes. 

• An experienced interviewee’s perspective: how to answer difficult or unexpected questions whilst remaining composed. 

• Mock interviews: simulated competency, strengths or motivation interviews, including detailed verbal feedback. 

• Rejection: How to deal with inevitable setbacks such as rejection, and how to take away crucial learning points from any failure.

 

Stage 4: Starting your new job? Hit the ground running

 

 • Once you’ve secured an internship or graduate role, you will need to learn how to efficiently manage your workload, as well as effectively interact with your manager, peers and senior directors. You will also want to demonstrate initiative and enthusiasm and successfully tackle the tasks you are set. 

• Use in-depth coaching sessions to explore the challenges you are likely to face and discuss how you can overcome them.  These sessions will be additional and whenever required.