Career Management
Career / Job Search Coaching and Training - Live or Phone Based
- Unhappy in your job?
- Stuck in a rut?
- Lost your "professional passion?"
- Out of work and struggling to find that next role?
I can help!
- "In working with Kim, I have been able to achieve in three months what I have been seeking to achieve over the past ten years – clarity and direction!"- G.P., Sydney Australia
- "I had the fortunate opportunity to attend one of Kim's webinars and from that initial meeting, I confidently engaged Kim as a career coach. The energy, passion and expertise she brings to the table cannot be over emphasised. She certainly has an arsenal of refreshingly new perspectives and practical tips that any professional can benefit from. She is, without doubt, an expert in her field." - Prenaven Naidoo, Design Specialist, Testra
- "Kim is a high level, exceptional and perceptive mentor, an outstanding person who treats you like a human being. At a seminar her professional approach is superb and you can't help feeling that she is talking to you personally. Kim has a wealth of knowledge which she passes on effortlessly. Kim is an A1 networker and negotiator, always exuding friendliness and warmth. I like Kim's positive attitude and creative business ideas - she's a star!!" - Elyah Fish, Consultant & Trainer, Sydney, Australia
My name is Kim Seeling Smith and I have spent the last 17 years, working with and studying over 5,000 individuals and their careers: first as a recruiter in Australia, New Zealand and the United States and now as a Career Coach and Trainer.
In 2002 I become obsessed with figuring out the difference between those talented and capable people who seem to effortlessly reach their professional goals (climbing the corporate ladder, managing career around family, running a successful business or simply doing meaningful work with interesting people at great companies) and those equally talented and equally capable people who lose their way or lose their passion.
Was it education, experience, raw talent, personality, luck? I discovered (much to my shock) it was none of those.
I identified 4 key factors that ensure that people succeed which I now call The Critical Path to a Great Career and I've taught these concepts to hundreds of people with great results!
Tailored to those who want individualised attention and accelerated help with career planning, job search skills (including resume writing, interviewing skills and job search strategies), career transitions, moving to the next level or overcoming setbacks / eliminating blockages that are stopping you from achieving your goals.
Packages include the following:
- An initial phone consultation to help understand your needs, tailor a course of action and set expectations.
- A Pre-Coaching Review form for you to review, complete and return to me.
- My review and feedback of your Pre-Coaching Review Form.
- Refining your Critical Path coaching, confirming proposed outcomes and expectations.
- 3, 6, or 10 personal, individually tailored, Critical Path coaching sessions.
- Participation in any group coaching sessions at a 50% discount.
- Direct feedback and advice from your individual coaching sessions.
- Recommendations for review of external material if required.
- Personal follow up and direct access to me during and immediately following your Critical Path coaching sessions.
- Introduction to relevant contacts within the recruitment industry (if/when appropriate).
- Introduction to relevant contacts within your industry or function or those industries or functions you wish to explore.
- Access to my suite of web based tools and a discount of 50% on any commercial resources available directly off of my web site.
- Participation in as many Critical Path webinars as you would like.
A fantastic opportunity to gain clarity and direction on your career and to take the steps necessary to ensure personal and professional success.
Outcomes:
At the end of this course you will:
- Have a clearly defined personal and professional goal sheet
- Understand the different career paths available to reach those personal and professional goals
- Have a very robust tool to help you decide on the right path
- Identify your strengths and understand how you can use those strengths right now to "reignite your professional passion" in your current job and to ensure life long career opportunities and job satisfaction.
- Develop a personal action plan with the skills and experience you need to have to "mind the gap" between where you are now and your 3 - 5 year plan
- Have 7 incredible tools to "Condition Resilience" and be able to rebound from any setback, personal or professional.
In the 15 years I worked as a recruiter I was lucky enough to observe many capable and talented people successfully reach their goals and achieve their dreams: whether those goals and dreams included rising to the top of the corporate ladder, successfully managing career around family or simply doing meaningful work with good companies and working with interesting people.
Unfortunately I observed many, many more, equally capable and talented people fall short, plateau, slide backwards, or simply lose their passion.
In 2002 I became obsessed with the difference between these two groups of people. Was it education, experience, raw talent, personality, luck? I discovered (much to my shock) it was none of those.
I identified 4 key factors that ensure that people succeed which I now call The Critical Path to a Great Career and I've taught these concepts to now hundreds of people with great results!
What's fantastic about this opportunity is the ability to work with up to 9 other people in a group session. The Mastermind Experience is a very collaborative, very supportive experience that generates tremendous ideas.
In these 4 weekly sessions I take you through each step on the Critical Path to a Great Career. You have a series of exercises between each session that helps you get very clear on the concepts and apply them to your own life. You'll walk away with a workbook full of tools and examples to refer to whenever you refresh your career planning or need a bit of a boost.
Most importantly, you'll walk away with a clear sense of direction and an action plan of how to achieve the results you want to achieve. You'll understand what your "special sauce" is and how you can apply that for life long opportunities and greater fulfillment and you'll have a number of tools at your disposal to spring back from setbacks and overcome blockages that might be keeping you from success.
What you will learn:
Session 1: How to 'Set Your Course'. Determine what you really want out of you life, professionally and personally and learn how to develop a 3 - 5 year plan. Complete with a goal setting exercise and decision matrices to help you elegantly and efficiently decide between options.
Session 2: 'Make Your Mark'. What makes you unique? Figuring this out will help you become indispensable to your employer and ensure you never struggle again to find work. It will also dramatically increase your own job satisfaction and 'Reignite Your Professional Passion!' We will go through specific exercises to help you determine your strengths, interests and abilities leading you to determine your own 'Special Sauce.'
Session 3: 'Master Your Skills'. Where are your gaps in the 4 Critical, Non-Technical Skills and how do you 'mind the gap?'
Session 4: 'Condition Resilience'. Every career (and life) has setbacks: times where things don’t go to plan or happen as quickly as you’d like. Your ability to pick yourself up and dust yourself off will, in many cases, be the ultimate test for how high you can climb and how happy and fulfilled you will be.
In this session Kim will give you a very insightful and humorous overview of the human brain and help you with 2 - 3 practical tools to thrive through any setback, delay or change: personal or professional. This workshop will be both fun and interactive and will guarantee that you will walk away with solutions you can apply immediately to your life and teach your staff to apply to theirs.
4 Consecutive weeks. Limited to 10 people.
Live and Virtual sessions available
With over 25 years of business experience in both large corporates and small to medium sized companies (including 3 of my own), I bring a combination of practical / commercial experience to the myriad of tools and certifications I've gained having trained as a coach.
What this means to you is that, instead of dealing with theoreticals, I can help you with practical advice and action steps that I guarantee will make a difference in becoming more successful, more fulfilled and less stressed.
A bit more about my background:
- Originally trained as American CPA and management consultant with KPMG
- Spent 15 years in Recruitment prior to becoming a full-time Speaker, Trainer and Coach
- Interviewed over 5,000 candidates, worked with many thousands of clients
- Helped to directly manage hundreds of careers
- Helped numerous clients hire and retain staff
- Serial Entrepreneur (3 businesses, first of which still operating in Dallas, TX since 1991)
- Multiple start ups and turn arounds for $4 billion, S & P 500 Multi-National Recruitment firm
- Was a top recruiter in every market in which I worked as an individual contributor
- Hired, trained and managed multiple international Chairmans Club and Presidents Club sales winners
I bring a holistic approach to my coaching, having achieved extraordinary results myself through several personal "reinventions":
- Professional Reinvention - From Big 4 Accountant to 15 year Recruitment Consultant to Career and Executive Coach, Trainer, Motivational Speaker and Writer.
- Relationship Reinvention- From successfully married to even more successfully divorced and ‘learned to date at 48’!
- Health & Wellness Reinvention - Shed 22 kilos then reshaped my body through yoga and healed myself of life-long asthma and allergies.
I am a Certified:
- Master Neuro Strategist
- emMatrix Practitioner
- Master NLP Practitioner
- Master Hypno Therapist
- Extended DISC Practitioner
and Trained:
- Strategic Interventionist
- Spiral Dynamics Practitioner
- Marriage Educator
See full list of testiomials from previous clients.
