Career Coaching
The ability to more quickly discover clarity, focus, and motivation, making it easier to identify what you want and strategize on how to get there. Create targeted assets and a narrative that packages your skills and experience to attract your ideal roles.
Your next chapter begins now. Take action now instead of…
…waiting for the layoff to happen
…wondering when you’ll get the promotion or raise
…wondering what to do next if your job is eliminated
….waiting for something, anything to happen without taking action for yourself
If you work a corporate role, chances are you might feel like a line on a spreadsheet and your position can be eliminated at any time, or maybe already has, and you don’t understand the performance measures or reasons why. It happens so frequently these days and we don’t keep job for decades like generations before us.
Why wait for someone else to choose what happens to your livelihood, and take action to build or lean into something that’s aligned with what you want to do?
Clarify Your Vision
Unsure about your next career move? Together, we’ll clarify your vision and identify your professional goals. By understanding your strengths, values, and aspirations, we’ll create a clear, actionable roadmap for your career progression.
Craft a Powerful Narrative
Your resume needs to connect to where you want to go, not where you’ve been. After mapping out you targeted goals, I’ll help you elevate your narrative with a powerful resume. We’ll ensure it highlights your strengths, achievements, and potential, making you stand out to employers you want to work with.
Navigate Your Transition
Career transitions can be daunting, but you don’t have to navigate them alone. Whether you’re seeking a promotion, changing industries, or re-entering the workforce, I provide the guidance and support to help you make smooth, successful transitions. We’ll strategize each step and prepare you for new challenges.
Option 3
Transform Your Resume and Amplify Your Value Proposition
This package contains a targeted 3 step process to give you a confident, solid start to achieve you next career goal!
Deliverables:
3 Targeted Coaching sessions to dial in your resume, LinkedIn, and your value proposition
Elevated resume/LinkedIn profile to connect to the roles you target (Critique or Radiant Firefly Delivers)
Working narrative on how to connect to employers about the roles you target - this is the difference, being able to talk about all the great new verbiage on your resume!
About:
Resumes are looked at for an average of 7 seconds for consideration. They need to show your value quickly and no onus should be left for the reader to infer your qualifications as it relates directly to the job you want.
You also need to be able to understand how to talk about your value and what makes you qualified for the position once your resume gets an upgrade. After 100’s of conversations with job seekers, I find most are too humble, don’t know how to connect to all the great skills they already possess to an employer, or how to target the role they want. This piece of the puzzle is the sweet spot to convey to potential employers what you bring to the position(s) you want.
Our time together here will give you the language to support you on your journey to more quickly show you are the right candidate. If you just get a resume upgrade and don’t have the narrative to support you in conversations, it will be hard for employers to connect with why you are the right fit for the role.
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You are struggling with what to put on their resume
You don’t know what to say to professionally convey your strengths when someone asks “tell me about yourself”
Looking to lean into a different role, or just need some help to convey your value to the world
Your resume isn’t getting you an interview for any role
You aren’t able to pass screening phone calls in the interview process
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STEP 1:
Initial Consultation (Half Hour) - We start with a video call to discuss your current resume and understand your career journey, strengths, and goals.
The output: A starting point and an understanding of what makes you unique, how to reflect that in your resume. You’ll be given homework to start elaborating on past experiences and working towards clarity on what you want to target it for.
STEP 2:
Intensive Work Session (90 Minutes) - After completion of the initial homework, we’ll do an intense work session and go through your work history, and I’ll help you capture the important parts of your experience and story. I find this is one of the single most valuable ways to get great fuel in someone’s job search arsenal: When you have the opportunity to talk openly about your experiences, things you accomplished, achieved, and have done poor out far more easily than sitting in solitude trying to write it yourself. This is gold I capture in this session.
The output: Provide the language for a values summary for your resume, a value proposition for your elevator pitch, and a clear understanding of how to complete your resume to tailor your assets for your target role.
STEP 3:
Resume Crafting: After our call, you will have the tools to finish your resume, and if you choose the package that Radiant Firefly completes your resume, I’ll provide a deadline by which I’ll finish it by.
The output: A resume and deeper insights to your professional story that allows potential employers to immediately connect to your value.
STEP 4:
In-Depth Resume Finalization & LinkedIn optimization (1 Hour): I will thoroughly review your resume with you, providing detailed recommendations, tips, and advice to finalize it into a compelling story. We will also work on tips to apply to your LinkedIn profile, talk more deeply about your value proposition (elevator pitch), and strategize your next steps for connecting with your next job.
The output: A finalized resume, clear direction on LinkedIn optimization, and more confident narrative to talk about yourself, and a strategic plan for seeking out your next role.
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Virtual support by email from your coach during the process to help you overcome any speedbumps you might encounter.
Homework to work on effectively answering the “Tell Me About Yourself” question to empower you to make an impactful first impression at interviews.
Homework to prepare for STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) questions and have the ability to answer these tough questions more effectively.
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Option 1: $350 (resume/LinkedIn recommendations)
Option 2: $500 (resume/LinkedIn completed by Radiant Firefly)
*If it feels supportive to do this with a group of people, email us, as
that can be arranged and make it more cost effective!
Option 1
Aligned & Ahead Jump Start Coaching Package
This is a 4 session package, meeting once a week for 4 weeks: This private engagement is designed for professionals navigating uncertainty, stepping into leadership, or craving more direction to quickly start to get everything they need aligned quickly.
Whether you are anticipating or recovering from a layoff, stepping into a new role, or simply seeking more meaning in your work, this package helps you quickly identify your skills and talent, customized to where you’d like to go and what matters to you, and create a sustainable plan forward.
What clients are saying:
”Shannon played a huge role in helping me land my new role. She has a real gift for articulating people’s strengths and value, and making sure that comes across clearly and confidently.”
Deliverables:
4x 60 minute meetings
Resume & LinkedIn Support - elevate your assets (Radiant Firefly can do this for you / additional investment)
Supportive container to strategize and support you on your professional goals, help you identify your strengths, develop your narrative, uncover blind spots, and hold you accountable towards action along the way
Regular follow up, homework, mock interviewing, and accountability
About:
If you’re feeling stuck or want to have someone to help you move forward something professionally, this is the place. Whether you have leveled out at your role and want to move to the next level? Maybe don’t get great growth and coaching from your manager and want some empowerment on how to move forward? You see that there is a lot of volatility in the job market right now and you want to future-proof your career in some way whether it’s starting a business, side hustle, or strategize one what could be next for you. I’m excited to work alongside you to brainstorm and get some momentum on what you want, or work to discover what that is! Let’s get started on realizing your potential.
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You are feeling stagnant in your role and looking to get a promotion or make a career move, whether you are an individual contributor or manager.
You are inspired to transition into a completely new career or industry and you’re not sure where to start
You want to start your own business or do some consulting and want to strategize on your path to get there as starting alone could feel very isolating
You have been affected by a layoff, or anticipate one coming
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Virtual support by email or telegram from your coach during the process to help you overcome any speed bumps you might encounter.
Guided prompts on determining what you want to target your resume for.
Homework to work on effectively answering the “Tell Me About Yourself” question to empower you to make an impactful first impression at interviews.
Homework to prepare for STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) questions and have the ability to answer these tough questions more effectively.
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$550 - 4x sessions
*If it feels supportive to do this with a group of people, email me!
Option 2
The Essential Package
Deliverables:
Aligned & Ahead 4 Week Coaching Package + A Resume & LinkedIn Makeover
Radiant Firefly delivers you a new or elevated resume and tips for LinkedIn improvements
About:
This is for anyone who has a transition that would benefit from a new resume. Let’s talk and see if that’s right for you! We’ll figure out what feels best for you!
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Anyone who feels both options are needed and this can be discussed during our discovery call.
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All value ads from Option 1 & 2
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$750 for Aligned & Ahead + Resume and LinkedIn assets
Option 4
One Time Ignite Session
You just need a one time session to brainstorm some strategy to get you moving forward
Deliverables:
A 90 minute session to work on whatever it is you want to focus on.
About:
Have something you just need a one time session to work with someone, get some strategy or need to bounce some ideas off someone in a container that is just for you, then let’s make that happen!
It could be a game changer!
Investment:
$135 for 90 minutes
Additional sessions
If you complete a package with me and just want to touch base with me as needed for maintenance, I’m always here to support you. One hour sessions are $90 and half hour sessions are $55.
FAQs
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The meat of my coaching has been in technical environments working with software and hardware engineers, DevOps, data analytics, and more at all levels from first tech role through VP.
I’ve also heavily worked with marketing, sales, account executives, and many more.
I’m also very interested in working with first generation college students and professionals. As someone who identifies as such and has seen how much someone can benefit by being empowered to advocate for themselves, know their value, experience social capital (networking!), and explore careers many don’t exist, it’s important to me. -
As a job seeker, working with a career coach can help you identify your target work, identify your non-negotiables and values, and most importantly, help you develop a narrative and assets outlining your value. I have found that most folks, after working with 100’s, have a difficult time knowing how skilled they are and how to connect their experience to where they want to go. They end up with a resume that doesn’t work for them, interviewing stories that are too broad, and often feel isolated and confused on how to move forward. By having dialogue around all this, I help you articulate all of this!
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Most resumes I’ve seen over the years tell a story of where they’ve been, and not targeted where they want to go. They also miss key elements, like the title of the role you want to go in, and miss impact. I’m driven to help you make your resume (and LinkedIn profile) resonate more closely with where you want to go and make it easy to connect with hiring managers and recruiters.
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Yes, I can help you with mock interviews! When I work with clients on their interview skills I hone in on making sure they are telling good stories, inferring their value, and putting proof in everything they say. (ex: Tell me about a strength you have. What is the strength and back it up with how that’s benefited you in the work space). Many interviewers are too vague and leave interviewers questioning what they bring to the table. I’m driven to help you make a great first impression and get you taken seriously as a candidate through mock interview practice.
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My approach comes from a place of complete positive regard where I’ll give you clear direction and insights with the utmost care and support. After working with 100’s people from a variety of backgrounds and challenges, I have a deep understanding of the needs for individualized support, have deep empathy for the journey’s people are on, and am passionate about providing people hope and motivation to achieve their desired dreams.
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I use Google Meet to conduct my coaching sessions unless you prefer phone or live near me in Washougal, WA to do them in person!
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Book a free 30 minute consult with me here and I’ll put together a proposal for you when we’re done. During the call I’ll get to understand what you are looking to achieve and talk about how I can help you get there. The proposal will outline what we agreed upon and we’ll get you moving towards you desired outcome after!
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After working with 100’s of people over the years, I find that people are amazing, have incredible skills and talents, but don’t realize it or know how to talk about it or put it on a resume. I find this is the case at all levels from college graduates to VP’s in a company and everything in between. We were trained to be good employees, but not how to toot our horn. We are too busy trying to prove ourselves at work that we don’t take a step back to summarize what we accomplished. When I talk to people about what they have done, ask good questions, look under the hood, everyone has something amazing to share that I re-frame in a way that makes sense for have value in your resume and your dialogue.
I don’t want you to hire me if you aren’t ready or force you to, but why wait? Why not start to take steps to elevate yourself now? Please always feel free to ask my any questions too. -
I’ve been heavily coaching since 2018, completed ICF coach training through Lumia and received their Level II certification in March of 2024.
I went on to achieve my International Coaching Federation, Accredited Credentialed Coach in August of 2024 with the required 100 hours of coaching, and secured my Professional Credentialed Coach in December of 2024 after securing more than 500 hours of coaching. (and these tallies didn’t start until September 2023)