5 Cs Career Coaching
Clarity + Competencies + Communication + Confidence >> Career
A comprehensive combination of mindset, strategy, skills and support for career-makers who are ready for the next step.
Whether you’ve already ticked all the boxes without success: vacancy research, CV/resume updates, LinkedIn networking, numerous interviews,
or maybe you just don’t know what the first step should be - I have an answer for you.
Navigating a job search or career change can be a tedious and confusing task.
It can test your patience, challenge your self-esteem, and consume your time, energy and thoughts.
Having someone by your side in a supportive capacity can make all the difference.
As your career coach, it is my job to help you realise your potential in a way that feels truly satisfying to you.
Together we will identify what you want, and need to be doing to achieve it, so you can focus your efforts on what really counts.
No more scattered searching, applying, panicking, or settling for what you can get. I help you to build on your skills and strengths, so that you can present the best of your professional self, confidently and authentically.
Imagine having clarity about your goals, strategic steps to follow, continuous feedback and accountability to keep you on track, and a safe space to practise your interview skills until it feels easy and comfortable.
“I have gained confidence and am no longer anxious or afraid about job seeking. I understand better what is expected of me, how to showcase my strengths and how to tackle the topic of my weaknesses. The interview stage is no longer a mysterious and frightening step to me: I now know how to proceed in continuing my preparation of this step.”
— Alexandra, Brussels
What to Expect from the 5 Cs Programme
5 Cs aims to make professional transitions strategic, efficient and empowering.
An ideal programme for recent graduates or those seeking to change job and upgrade at the same time. The 5 Cs focus positively on your skills, objectives and potential. They bring you through three steps of preparation in order to confidently enter the job market/change career.
Step 1 - Clarity
In Step 1 we get clear on your goals and what you really want to walk away with. Often we choose careers for the wrong reasons: salary; others’ values and expectations; continuing a previously established, but ultimately undesired, path. Clarity coaching brings you through a process of identifying your values and what you really want in career and life, so that you accept a position you want to stay in. This stage is fundamental for creating a mindset that will support your throughout your career.
Step 2 - Competencies
The practical step: having identified authentic career goals, we can now look at what is needed to achieve them. You will receive support exploring your experience, strengths and skills to present them successfully throughout the hiring process, and in line with the positions sought. Whether you want an EU institution career, or a corporate role in one of the Big 4, or a flexible position in an independent agency, we will make a plan of action, including resources, to ensure effective preparation that can be used for future applications too.
Step 3 - Confidence & Communication
The step that ties it all together: coaching to remove any remaining limiting beliefs around potential, intensive CV and interview skills preparation and practice for cohesive, confident performance; stress management and mindset work to keep up the momentum after our work is done.
I started working with Siobhán because I was overwhelmed by the start of my job search in Brussels. The experience helped me understand the market better and also how I can fit into it. Our work also helped me see clearer how my personal values can help me in my job search and how to use my awareness of them to present myself to recruiters.
— Amanda, Brussels
Who is the 5 Cs Career Coaching programme for?
5 Cs career coaching, and interview preparation clients have been hired or promoted in the European centre of Brussels; in EU organisations, such as EUIPO; Big 4 firms, such as Deloitte; international mangement consultancy firms, and small & medium enterprises.
The programme is designed for anyone wishing to transition in their career; a graduate who is entering the job market for the first time, an intern who is ready to implement their training in long-term employment, a middle or senior manager who desires a promotion or a complete career change. (For leadership or executive coaching specifically, contact me to discuss a bespoke package.)
Everyone will have a different area of focus, and some blind spots, that’s why the programme is a combo of coaching and training. It sets you up not just for job search and interview success. It also provides mindset, insight and skills to support you in your next phase of career for better work-life balance, improved self-confidence, and management of workplace behaviours.
My own leadership experience spans 20+ years in the public sector, corporate organisations and independent business across Europe and North and Latin America.
“Siobhán has gone above and beyond our expectations in assisting our staff with their professional development.”
— Kate T. Calcutta Group, Australia
How it works
While the programme is structured, it is designed to adapt to the unique needs of each client.
Our time together can involve coaching, accountability, training, practice and feedback.
Cost (2024) EUR €745
6 sessions up to 90 mins
Mindset training and coaching
CV/application review and job search strategy
Interview skills practice
Learning materials
Email support throughout
Follow-up/skills maintenance sessions: EUR €75 (60 mins)
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