Watch Andrew introduce the complete Career Strategy & Job Change course
Are you in or about to enter the job market?
Are you unsure about what you want or are qualified to do next?
Do you want to identify the skills you will need to succeed in your chosen job market?
Does the thought of entering the job market now make you anxious?
This course is for you, if you answered "yes" to any of those questions.
This course offers you three complementary ways to access our content through your career transition:
1 In one online course it bundles together all our courses on Career Strategy, Networking, CV/Cover Letter writing, Interview preparation and lot's more. You can access the videos, exercises and tools when you need them to go from developing your own career strategy to the practicalities of successfully landing your next role.
2 Online group coaching circles: live collaborative workshops in which to get your questions answered and learn from the questions and answers of others.
3 You can ask Andrew anything through the online discussions or privately. Andrew shapes the agenda for new modules and circles based on the questions you are asking.
The circles are held on zoom and last 1-1.5 hours. We record the circle content not the discussion so you can catch up on the insights you missed. Take a look at the curriculum below to see what is available now.
While you are subscribed, you will have access to the archive of all prior circles & the supporting materials, and can join as many circles as you like.
Introduction to Andrew Jones, Executive Coach
Andrew Jones has been coaching leaders and professionals from MBA to C-level in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa for 12 years. He has lived and worked in Asia for over 30 years – based in Singapore since 1998. You can read more about his experience, credentials and client recommendations on his LinkedIn page
Andrew is a very experienced interviewer and career coach. He leverages both to give you a challenging interview experience and maximize what you can learn.
Andrew subscribes to the Ashridge Business School Code of Conduct for Coaches. He will follow this Code in all terms including Responsibility, Competence, Confidentiality, Management of Work, and Public Statements.
You can learn
- How to use this module (7:38)
- Failure to plan - and the methods we recommend to plan & hold yourself accountable on this course
- Procrastination - and the methods we recommend to plan & hold yourself accountable on this course
- The Bandwagon Effect
- Authority Bias
- Discounting
- Impostor thinking/ Low Self-Confidence
- Confirmation bias
- Contrast effect
- The Fear of Missing Out
- The Focusing effect
- The Framing effect
- Impact bias
- Loss Aversion
- Sunk Cost Fallacy
- Mere Exposure effect
- Availability Heuristic
- Recency Bias
- Wishful Thinking
- Stereotyping
- Halo effect
- Resistance to Change & Fear of the Unknown
- Narcissistic thinking/Over Self-Confidence
- Cynicism
- Busy-ness: Motion ≠ Progress
- Learning Objectives
- Preparing to make a distinct career change or reinvent your career
- Developing Career Strategy to fit your Context (3:01)
- You cannot separate Work & Life
- Specialise or Generalise?
- Move faster or slower? (2:34)
- Making long-term assumptions (2:53)
- Making short-term assumptions (2:43)
- Determinant vs Emergent career strategies (4:13)
- Determinant career strategies (4:51)
- Managing your Determinant strategy: Career Pathing (3:10)
- Emergent career strategies (3:11)
- Managing your Emergent strategy: Career Optimisation
- Conclusion: FOMO and the agony of choice (5:03)
- Reflection & Coaching
- Learning Objectives
- Defining what you want from your next career choice (2:04)
- Visualisation techniques
- Values (7:51)
- Motivation (13:44)
- Interests, Flow, Passion & Purpose (3:45)
- Preferences - What culture and work environment are the right fit for you? (5:16)
- Habituation: How our interests & preferences may dim over time
- Job satisfaction
- Edgar Schein's Career Orientations Inventory
- What do you Want today? (1:57)
- Hedonic treadmill: The consequences of getting what you want
- Reflection & Coaching
- Learning Objectives
- What professionals need to know about personality (8:43)
- Preparing for the Psychometric assessments for career choice module (4:01)
- Interpreting your Five Factor results
- Openness to New Experience (2:00)
- Conscientiousness (1:52)
- Extroversion (1:56)
- Agreeableness (2:31)
- Neuroticism/Negative Emotionality (1:16)
- The application of your personality preferences to the career/job change process
- Other Assessments: Hogan Leadership Forecast Assessments
- Other Assessments: DISC
- Reflection & Coaching
- Learning Objectives
- What is Available in the job market today? (1:36)
- What’s your career Goal today? (4:08)
- Reconciling your Goal with Availability in the Market (4:23)
- Refining 1 Target Job into 100 New Options
- Job-Crafting: How to Redesign your own Job
- Job-Sculpting: Collaborating to Redesign your Job
- Alternative career paths to management
- The Entrepreneurial route to employment: Proposing new products, markets or businesses
- Mid-Career Internship
- Family Business v Employment
- Entrepreneurship v Employment
- Active or Passive Job Search?
- Can you keep your Job Search a Secret?
- Plan & Track your Job Search
- Reflection & Coaching
- Learning Objectives
- What are you Capable of today? (1:13)
- Am I ready?
- Who decides if I am ready?
- Am I ready? Action Plan
- How do you get experience if you do not already have experience?
- From Individual Contributor to Manager
- What got you here, won't get you there
- Assessing your Capabilities (4:02)
- Transferable Skills (12:49)
- Transferable Skills Gap Analysis
- Self-initiated Education & Professional Development
- Reflection & Coaching
- BETA TEST module - all your comments, questions & content ideas are very welcome!
- Understanding what constitutes a Promotion
- Understanding the formal & informal aspects of the Promotion Process
- Are you ready for promotion?
- Motivation: Do you want promotion?
- Making a plan to achieve Promotion
- Active or Passive promotion campaign?
- Aiming for your Boss's Job, Deputising & Acting up
- Should You Tell Your Boss?
- Volunteering, stretching & non-promotable tasks
- Influencing Talent Committees and other Decision Makers
- Peers, competitors and other interested parties
- Responding to failure to get a promotion
- How do promoted professionals adapt to the new role?
- Learning Objectives
- Preparing for the Personal Branding module
- What is Personal Branding? (3:11)
- Self-Authoring, Personal Narratives & Personal Branding
- How does Google present your Personal Brand? (3:39)
- Auditing your Social Media (5:08)
- How is your Personal Brand perceived? (3:15)
- The Personal Branding process (5:31)
- Personal Branding action plan (3:29)
- Build your Personal Brand statement
- Reflection & Coaching
- Learning Objectives
- 7-day LinkedIn Action Plan
- Using LinkedIn for your active job search
- Using LinkedIn for your passive job search (2:48)
- The elements of the LinkedIn profile (14:37)
- Linked keywords
- Headline, Headshot & Banner
- Writing your 'About' statement
- The 'Experience' section
- Skills, Endorsements, and Recommendations
- Education & Certifications
- Posting, Commenting & the Featured section
- Following & Joining Groups
- Making Connections
- How your LinkedIn profile supports your personal brand (3:24)
- Use LinkedIn data to advance your job search (8:23)
- Tuning your LinkedIn profile to your objective (6:28)
- Reflection & Coaching
- Learning Objectives
- Defining terms: CV, Resume and Cover Letter
- Adapt your Model CV for each application (1:17)
- CV Rapid Action Plan
- How to analyse a Job Description or Job Ad for CV writing
- How Employers Use your CV
- Tuning your CV for algorithms
- CV layout - Stand out & Fit in (2:52)
- Chronological or Skills-based CV?
- Summary & Objective statements (1:24)
- Demonstrating your capability with your prior experience (5:29)
- The Team's Results are the Manager's Results
- How Team Members Demonstrate Individual Impact
- Show Don't Tell: Demonstrating soft-skills without directly stating them
- Achievement language: Active, Assertive Verbs
- Achievement language: Quantifying your Impact
- Education & Languages (2:00)
- Personal interests & other experience (1:44)
- Professional language: adverbs, adjectives & clarity
- How your CV is used for pre-employment screening
- 3 ways to review your own CV & check for common errors
- Keep your CV Up-to-Date
- Introduction to Cover Letters (5:35)
- Why use a Cover Letter (3:51)
- The opening paragraph (5:45)
- Andrew's Cover Letter format & tips (2:42)
- The Cover Letter ends with a Call to Action (3:50)
- Reflection & CV Review
- Learning Objectives
- The case for Networking (8:57)
- What does it take to be a good Networker?
- Types of Networking: Event v One-to-One & Offline v Online
- Types of Networker: Bridges, Brokers & Beyond
- Types of Contact Behavior
- Plan, Track and Measure the Value of your Networking
- Overcoming your resistance to Networking
- Map your Network
- Don't let your network go cold
- Is your Professional Network ready for you to start a job search today?
- Networking with potential hiring managers
- Networking with Incumbents & Competitors
- Should I network with Head Hunters? If so, what do I say?
- Should I network with HR professionals?
- The Informational Interview or Coffee Chat
- How do you invite someone for a coffee chat? (5:00)
- Coffee-chat invitation templates by connection type
- Professional purposes that can increase your invitation's chances of success
- Planning informational interviews
- Building rapport & starting a relationship
- What will you say during a coffee chat? (3:45)
- Following up after a coffee chat
- Networking with Alumni
- How to network at conferences & other events
- Working the Room & Moving from Group to Group (41:58)
- Starting, sustaining & ending useful networking conversations
- Following up after a conference or networking event
- How to keep your network warm
- Create your own Networking Event
- Reflection & Coaching
- Learning Objectives
- How to use the interview preparation guidance
- What you will need
- Preparing for your Interview or mock interview
- How to analyse a Job Description or Job Ad
- Answering the 'Tell me about yourself' question (5:54)
- Answering the "You seem to change jobs frequently..." questions
- Illustrating your aptitude and attitude (5:42)
- Preparing to talk about your achievements (4:00)
- Over/Under-qualification concerns
- Answering behavioral questions to help the interviewer (6:57)
- Why is this the right job for you? (1:37)
- Why are you the right person for this job? Why should we hire you? (2:54)
- What salary/package are you looking for and more risky questions (4:27)
- Why do you want to leave your last employer?
- Questions about the longer-term: motivation, intention and interests (4:16)
- The leadership style question
- What is your strategy/action plan for this role?
- Being vulnerable in the interview (3:40)
- The Failure question (2:27)
- The Weakness question (3:11)
- Questions about ethics
- Questions about Education & Internships (4:58)
- Building Rapport with the interviewer
- Taking the Interviewers perspective: Show & Tell (7:23)
- How to respond to the interviewer's behavioural queues & apparent biases
- How interviewers dig deeper for fit (9:47)
- Self-Confidence & showing Confidence in interviews (10:14)
- More questions
- Asking questions at the end of an interview
- How to close the interview (4:09)
- Types of interview (5:43)
- After the Interview
- Reflection & Coaching
- Learning Objectives
- How to make a difficult career decision
- FOMO & Intuition influences on your evaluation (1:12)
- When I receive an offer, what options do I have? (5:03)
- When should I choose? (4:59)
- Designing & applying my evaluation criteria (6:07)
- Choosing between Employer Brands
- Choosing between Cultures
- Evaluating a Startup
- Evaluating job offers (4:58)
- Managing competing offers/opportunities
- Reflection & Coaching
- Learning Objectives
- Preparing for salary & contract negotiation
- Objective: What are you negotiating for? (6:34)
- Bargaining (9:31)
- Negotiating (8:13)
- Market data (3:16)
- Negotiating and clarifying Probation terms
- Bonus/Promotion eligibility, timing and process
- Negotiating with a Startup
- Clarifying objectives and how they are evaluated
- Accepting an Offer
- Declining an Offer
- Reflection & Coaching
- Learning Objectives
- What is a Performance Improvement Plan?
- Minimising the risk of a Performance Improvement Plan
- Potential Legal and ethical traps
- Navigating a Performance Improvement Plan
- Warning signs
- PIP Closure Meeting
- Managing Negative/Unexpected PIP Outcomes
- Managing positive PIP outcomes
- Reflection & Coaching
- BETA TEST module - all your comments, questions & content ideas are very welcome!
- Learning Objectives
- Termination/Redundancy: Preparing for the worst while expecting the best
- Responding to the termination of your job
- Termination questions
- After termination
- Crafting your narrative after termination
- Next steps
- When is it time to quit?
- Evaluating Stay or Go?
- Planning to resign
- Communicating your Resignation
- Resignation Letter
- Handling your manager's response to your resignation
- Responding to Counter Offers
- Communicating your resignation
- Between resigning and leaving
- Handing over
- Exit interview
- Next steps
- Learning Objectives
- Between signing and joining - Action Plan
- Common mistakes new joiners make and gaps in company onboarding processes
- What is your planning horizon? (6:46)
- Day 0 to Day 90 Action Plan (6:21)
- Managing your Personal Transition
- Managing your Network through Transition
- First meeting with you manager
- Managing your Probation period for confirmation
- How big is your change challenge? (4:50)
- Introducing: What will you say first? (10:20)
- Culture
- C-Level priorities in the first 90 days
- Leader of leaders' priorities in the first 90 days
- Middle Management priorities in the first 90 days
- New Manager priorities in the first 90 days
- What else do you need to learn? (4:13)
- Identify & meet your key stakeholders (7:32)
- Managing Unexpected Probation Outcomes
- After Completing a Successful Probation
- What's next? (1:58)
- Reflection & Coaching
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a waiting period between subscribing and joining the first workshop?
No. Once you have subscribed you can join a workshop immediately. We close the participant list for each event 24 hours beforehand to prepare the call logistics.
When does the course start and finish?
The the complete Career Strategy & Job Change course is an open program without a start and finish. You can subscribe at any time and pace yourself towards your own objective.
How long do I have access to the content?
You will have access to all the course modules, current and prior workshop recordings & materials until your subscription ends.
How much time should I plan to spend on this course?
Your time commitment depends on your own career objectives and by when you want to achieve them. We will encourage you to make a realistic, measurable plan and track your progress against it.
How do I buy the course for a friend, a colleague or my team?
On the check-out screen you will find an option to 'give as a gift'. Use this option and enter the email address of the person you are gifting to.
Are the workshops available on other dates and times?
There will be at least 12 workshops per calendar year. The topics and content reflect the interests of the participants. While you are subscribed you will receive a notification one week before the circle about the time and topic. If you prefer other dates or times, please tell us your preferences by email and we will do our best to accommodate you when we plan the next workshops.
What happens if I cannot attend a workshop that interests me?
The circles content sections are recorded on zoom and you will be able to watch any past recordings while your subscription is current.
Can I book a private run of this course?
Yes, we offer bulk purchase discounts for companies groups and Business Schools. Please contact us by email and we will set up a time to understand your objectives.
What if I am unhappy with the course?
We would never want you to be unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, tell us in the first 14 days and we will give you a full refund.
I still have questions. How do I contact you?
No problem. Ask Andrew anything by email