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Career Horizons: Outplacement and Career Coaching for Seattle, Bellevue, and Pacific Northwest Professionals

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Overview

Career Horizons is proud to offer a variety of world-class job search and career transition programs to individuals and organizations throughout the Pacific Northwest.

No matter where you may find yourself in the job search or employment exploration process, we can provide you with an affordable solution that meets your needs.  Below, we've outlined several of our most popular offerings for your review, and we'd also invite you to e-mail us here if you'd like us to forward you a full electronic brochure!

Corporate Outplacement

With over a decade of experience in the outplacement field, our staff has helped hundreds of organizations facilitate smooth employee separations and knows how to help both individual executives—as well as larger groups of displaced workers—move forward rapidly and successfully after the shock/turbulence of a downsizing event.

If you are an individual who has been authorized to shop for your own outplacement provider, or an HR professional who would like to receive a customized outplacement proposal for your organization, please click here and let us know how we can be of assistance to you!

Private Career Coaching

If you are a Pacific Northwest professional who has been caught in a sudden layoff or are contemplating a significant career or employment change, we stand ready to provide you with the customized one-on-one advice and resources necessary to get back on track.

Conscious Career Planning® Program:  This program is designed to help individuals assess their current career situation and identify possible new employment directions that would lead to greater long-term success and satisfaction.  Our pragmatic methodology goes well beyond the blind idealism of many books and assessment tools, introducing individuals instead to a practical plan they can follow to help clarify their career priorities and discover where their skills, passions, and experience best "plug in" to today's specialized, rapidly-changing job market.

Job Search PhD® Private Program:  This customized coaching program is ideal for those professionals at the executive level or who are ready to invest in a serious regimen of individual career analysis and job hunting support.  Built around eight hours of highly targeted coaching assistance, as well as a suite of unique job hunting resources we've developed, this program is a professional investment that provides career-minded individuals with invaluable objective feedback about their current marketability--and the steps necessary to generate an increased stream of quality interviews.

Resume Optimization® Program:  This program concentrates on helping job candidates get their "written packaging" in order and increase the number of interviews their job search documents are able to generate.  Clients purchasing this package of services receive a thorough resume consultatation and rewrite, combined with a detailed cover letter edit and access to a suite of additional job hunting resources to enhance their search efforts.

Group Workshops & Webinars

Each month, we host a number of highly focused group workshops and webinars to provide individuals with specific, targeted advice in key areas related to career transition.  Please e-mail us here if you have any questions about these courses—otherwise, feel free to sign up using the "Register Now" button under each class title!

Lassoing LinkedIn® Webinar
Next Class: Wed, 8/11, 6:00pm-8:00pm PST; Cost:$75

Despite a flood of imitators, nobody has yet invented a more powerful website for facilitating career and business networking success than LinkedIn.com. And yet, many people still haven't heard of this revolutionary networking tool -- or may have joined the site a while back, without really understanding how to harness its full potential.

In light of these realities, Career Horizons facilitates a monthly web-based training session dedicated to getting people up and running successfully on the LinkedIn system.  This two-hour class includes detailed instruction on how to optimize your LinkedIn profile, how to effectively build connections, and how to take full advantage of the People, Jobs, Answers, and Companies pages of the site. It also covers a number of important pointers regarding system etiquette that new users often violate, inadvertently.

The cost for this class is $75 and following completion of the webinar, all participants receive a full copy of the presentation materials, which include numerous additional networking scripts and case studies that can help you master the site and learn to use it like a pro!

Job Search PhD® Workshop
Next Class: Sat, 8/7, 8:00am-Noon; Cost:$250

Are you looking to run the most effective possible job search, right out of the gate?  Or have you been looking around for a while, on your own, without good results?

In this high-intensity job hunting class, we cut through the confusion and train professionals exactly how to plan, execute, and manage a successful job search in today's marketplace.  In addition to providing key tips on resume development and effective networking, we supply each attendee with a customized copy of our one-of-a-kind Job Search PhD® Spreadsheet tool containing hundreds of useful links, resources, and company/recruiter listings relevant to the Puget Sound market.

The cost for this 4-hour session is $250 and each class is limited to a maximum of six participants in order to ensure a high-quality learning experience.  You'll walk away with a crystal-clear job search action plan and a suite of practical, proven resources, based on our 15 years of experience coaching Puget Sound residents through the unique challenges of the job hunting process!

CH Annual Golf Networking Scramble
Event Date: Fri, 8/20, 8:00am Tee Time; Cost:$50

Have you been known to chase the little white ball, on occasion?  If so, you're invited to come participate in the 4th Annual Career Horizons Golf Scramble -- a very low-key golf tournament where you'll have the chance to meet, network, and spend four hours hitting balls with three other members of the Career Horizons community!

The event is open to all skill levels and will once again be taking place at Bellevue Municipal Golf Course. The tournament will follow a "scramble" format where teams are randomly drawn at the start of the event, giving you the chance to build some great new relationships even if your golf game has an off-day.  We'll be teeing off starting at 8:00am and finishing up with refreshments (and a small prize award ceremony) in the clubhouse around 1:00, depending on when the last group straggles in.

The entry fee for the tournament is $50 and covers green fees and power cart rental, the latter of which will be required in order to ensure we maintain an appropriate pace of play.  You'll receive a confirmation note back once we've successfully processed your registration -- and if your plans change and you need to cancel for any reason, we'll be able to issue a full refund up until Friday, August 6th, since that's the date we'll be turning the funds over to the course to confirm our reservation.  Hope you can join us, if a laid-back mix of golf and gab is your thing!