IEA

Job Search Mentoring

In the job market you are a product; is your marketing effective? We can help you to showcase your niche and make it irresistible.

Why Choose PA Job Search & Career Mentoring?

Personal Assistant job search and career mentoring is an effective way for Assistants to quickly master job search strategy and understand their strengths. “Attitude” is a key component of a winning job search, because seeing the job search exercise as a job of itself will bring quick success in securing that dream job.

Every job requires the right suite of skills, and this is where the independent guidance of a professional job search Consultant, who is an expert in the Executive Assistant field, can fast track your understanding of your career options and help you understand today’s job search challenges.

If you are a PA/EA facing redundancy it can be an uphill struggle getting your mind in alignment with the requirements of today’s job search: your mood, your assumptions about what works, and most importantly, what makes your CV stand out. 

Keep in mind that you are a business of one and every business needs an effective sales pitch. Knowing what to say to hold a Hiring Manager’s attention is a significant part of the battle. Our job search and career mentoring programs will help you to understand the “pain” that the Hiring Manager is trying to alleviate. They will also help you to identify your strengths, upgrade your personal brand, and build your professional network.

If your organization is offering a choice of outplacement services as an employee benefit for staff who are going through redundancy, why not request our job search and career mentoring program as part of that courtesy.

How We Can Help Your Assistants

We assist your company’s outplacement efforts with job search mentoring and career guidance for Personal Assistants, Executive Assistants, and all the members of your admin support team who are leaving the organization. We help them to quickly learn the kind of job search skills that will put them ahead of their peers in the job search process, and help them to evaluate their career.

We provide our services online or in-house at your offices, where our Consultant can mentor and train groups of Assistants face-to-face. Our programs are “off-the-shelf” and “bespoke”, and tailored to the specific requirements of the Assistants in your support teams. They will benefit from the guidance of an expert in their field who can also assist them with starting a business. Our programs run from one month to 8 months.

Our comprehensive program covers:

  • Career mentoring
  • Personal branding
  • Professional networking
  • Job search skills
  • Researching the market
  • CV writing
  • Preparation for interviews
  • Win-win negotiation
  • New business startup advice
 

As you know, organizations benefit from this type of service because it preserves the morale of those employees who were fortunate enough to keep their jobs. They will appreciate the way their colleagues are supported through the redundancy process.

We can also offer PA strategy mentoring programs for the Assistants that will be staying. Contact us for details.

Job SearchMentoring Programs

PA Career and Job Search

(4 weeks: online and/or telephone, plus emails)

 

The most important strategy you can employ in the job search is “preparation”. This is a process that should start as soon as possible if you are looking for a job or suspect that you may be looking for a job in the not too distant future. This program provides short, sharp up skilling that shows you how to see things from the hiring manager’s perspective. Our Consultant Mentors will help you do the necessary groundwork that brings success. This program covers the following.

  • Personal branding & career evaluation
  • CV writing & cover letters
  • Researching companies & business networking
  •  Interview questions, preparation, and process

Bespoke EA/PA Career & Job Search Mentoring

(One-to-one or groups – online or in-house)

We can create a comprehensive bespoke program for your Assistants covering career and job search strategy. This program can be delivered online with aspects delivered in-house at your offices where our Consultants can mentor and train groups of up to 8 Assistants face-to-face over a period of up to 8 months. Our program cover the following areas:

  • Career mentoring
  •  Personal branding
  •  Professional networking
  • Researching the job market
  •  CV writing
  •  Preparation for interviews
  • Win-win negotiation
  •  PA/EA strategy training
  •  New business start-up advice