Lisa Jacobson is a leading career consultant and coach. Her client base spans CEO’s to college students across the United States. With a 20-year background in human resources management at Fortune 100 companies and an advanced degree in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, she distinguishes her approach to career advising with real-world pragmatism and academic rigor.
ONE-HOUR CAREER CONSULTATION | $300
- Answers to any and all of your job or career questions and concerns
- You create the agenda. I answer your questions and give on-the-spot advice
- You receive a $300 credit if you decide to move forward
CAREER DISCOVERY PROGRAM | $1500
A comprehensive program model for first and second career decisions and job market strategies
Client Career Questionnaire
Completion of a career questionnaire to determine which services and assessments you need and want.
Assessments
Completion of selected online personality and strengths assessments for my review prior to our first meeting together.
First Session
Objectives: Discover Your Strengths, Desires and Interests
A 2-hour personal or Skype consultation
- Results of your career questionnaire and selected career assessments
- Understanding your personality and signature character strengths and virtues
- Validating your personality strengths
- Understanding how personality differentiates us from others
- Raising awareness about how you spend your energy and what you pay attention to
- Your natural preferences via Myers Briggs Personality Type
- Setting career decision goals
- What you’re naturally good at and how that translates into viable career options
Second Session
Objectives: Matching strengths with viable career choices
A 2-hour personal or Skype consultation
- Who you are + what you love + what you are good at = your best career options
- Owning, using and managing your strengths
- Matching strengths to the job market and career options
- Understanding your dominant personality traits; using them to make career decisions and/or advance in your career
- What others with similar personality, interests and talent typically do for a living
- Viable career options
- Crafting a specific strategy or a 1-3 year plan
- If you have a dream job, a strategy to get there
Third Session
Objectives: Designing Your Best Career Strategy
A 2-hour personal or Skype consultation
- Refining your resume - designing it to get noticed and spell-out how you add value
- Creating your pitch – Ready to answer who you are, what’s special about you and what you want
- Defining your brand – Differentiating yourself from others
- How for overcome networking apprehension
- How to use your career placement office to your full advantage, even after graduation
- Internship planning and strategies
- Interview coaching for prescreen telephone interviews and secondary interviews
- Employment objectives, goals and strategies
- Social media strategies
- Approaching individuals about shadowing or informational interviews
- Conducting informational interviews
- Setting realistic short and long term goals
Forth Session
Objectives: Follow-up
A one-hour meeting holding you accountable to the goals and objectives previously established plus unlimited email and telephone support for one year
