Career Integration Program

A note before you dive In: This program is a meaningful investment in your career. I’ve designed this page to give you the detail you need to make an informed decision, and to help you come to our first conversation ready with questions that matter most to you.

Got multiple career ambitions? Integrate them into a single story.

Nearly 70% of the professionals I meet are considering more than one career path. Most feel frustrated trying to create an executive résumé and LinkedIn profile that works seamlessly across each of those paths. Add the challenge of crafting a narrative that resonates with both human readers and Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS)—a task that requires more than intuition, but a research-backed approach to language, structure, and positioning—and it’s no wonder many people do nothing until their hand is forced.

These are often highly successful professionals who simply haven’t needed to think proactively about career progression. Many have been swept along by favorable winds for 10, 20, even 30 years before we meet. To complicate matters, it’s notoriously difficult to view one’s own story objectively.

As a result, they find themselves:

• Overwhelmed, with a résumé that has bloated since graduation

• Unfocused, juggling multiple narratives

• Stuck with an incomplete LinkedIn profile that attracts little but spam

What’s the Career Integration Program?

I’m Jared Redick, a former retained executive search consultant. I designed the Career Integration Program to help people synthesize their career stories into a single, professionally branded narrative, using research-driven analysis and strategic frameworks to address challenges like those above.

Traditionally, résumé writing, LinkedIn optimization, and bio development are seen as tactical chores. I’ve spent two decades reconceptualizing that chore as a guided, insightful, and even enjoyable process. My approach blends the mechanics of career documentation with the introspective rigor of executive coaching.

Clients routinely report that the process helped them:

• Come to terms with and plan their future based on where they’ve been, where they are, and where they’re going.

• Better understand the audiences they may encounter (e.g., retained executive search recruiters, hiring committees, boards) and how they work.

• Interview like never before, citing the depth of inquiry and decision-making as “built-in interview prep.”

  If we work together, we’ll craft a single, integrated brand that addresses your 2-3 career target directions whether those are:

• Direct next steps (lateral moves, promotions)

• Adjacent roles (similar positions in new sectors)

• Aspirational moves (board appointments, advisory roles)

If you’re like most of my private clients, you’ll resolve uncertainty and feel more integrated when talking about your skills, experiences, and fit with future companies. You’ll also have a LinkedIn profile that serves your underlying career intentions while presenting you publicly as “happy where you are,” an especially important strategy for leaders who can’t signal they’re considering new opportunities but still want to be passively found for interesting roles.

Got just one career direction? Check out the Resume Readiness Package (optimizing job search preparedness for a single role). Totally uncertain? Check out the Career Explorer Program (integrating multiple roles into a single brand, while exploring unknown job types).

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In-depth work ahead.

Rarely do we get the chance to slow down, look ahead, and make meaningful changes before life or work demands it. The Career Integration Program gives you that rare opportunity—before change arrives uninvited.

It isn't easy, but it's often transformative.

Guided by me, a former retained executive search consultant and long-time executive coach, you'll move through a structured sequence of research, collaborative decision-making, and fact-based writing. When we wrap, you’ll emerge with a holistic public brand focused on the future, and supported by a new executive résumé, résumé addendum, LinkedIn profile, and other assets (e.g., executive or board bio, public speaker bio, if added). These materials will no longer be relics of your past, but an integrated set of strategies and tools that that open up new runways for professional growth.

But make sure it’s right for you.

This isn’t a $49 résumé written by a faceless copy editor in a résumé mill. With my clients, every nuance counts, and nuance can’t be manufactured in a vacuum.

Simplicity, clarity, and brevity happen only with deep examination.

If we work together, expect an intensive but fun experience where you and I invest significant time and effort thoughtfully examining your professional life.

Here’s how it works:

Unify your narrative across the 2–3 directions you’re considering, so you can move forward with a single, integrated brand.

Since our goal is a single set of branded materials for multiple career goals, the program is more complex than just updating your résumé or LinkedIn. We need to look through the windshield, not just the rearview mirror.

We need to:

• Settle on the career directions you want to pursue

• Identify the unique and overlapping pillars those career directions are built on

• Map the intersection between your past, present, and future

• Scaffold and frame your story so it flexes to meet all of the aforementioned audiences and their respective needs

To build a unified, future-focused brand, we need to:

• Getting in front of your narrative.

• Realizing you can be a lot of things, but you can’t be all things to all people, which is a common mindset when we go into job-search mode.

• Elevating language so it speaks to multiple career targets using the same copy—a special kind of linguistic gymnastics.

I’ll guide you through that process, typically across three sessions.

• Career Research, Analysis & Discovery (60 min)

• Career Research, Analysis & Discovery (60 min)

• Career Research, Analysis & Discovery (60 min)

  Are we fixed at three sessions? Nope. We can use all of the sessions, repurpose them into Phase 2 if they’re not all necessary, or linger in Phase 1 if we need more time.

Phase 1 of the Career Integration Program blends practical homework assignments like my Jared Redick’s Job Description Analysis—a tool that draws on current market data to make a wide range of powerful decisions—with interactive Zoom sessions that:

• Set up your story strategy

• Present unchangeable details in the best light

• Create modular elements of your background to support your intentions through strategically developed copy

As of early 2025, I’ve integrated the use of Perplexity, an advanced research and analysis tool, to access insights that once took hours to gather and interpret such as the latest market data, executive hiring trends, and role expectations. This ensures our work is grounded in current research, while still relying on human judgment and a steady hand to apply those insights effectively

Building on this, our collective effort to explore, shape, and reshape your career possibilities blends longstanding best practices with emerging trends, particularly those relevant to retained executive search consultants, contingency recruiters, and in-house hiring authorities. This approach means the questions we tackle and the strategies we develop are not only introspective, but also precisely aligned with what today’s decision-makers are seeking. It’s just one of the ways our work doubles as interview prep.

Once we’ve settled on your career directions and job targets, we’ll formalize the approach and map your past to your future goals.

You’ll be an integral part of every decision as we craft your narrative. I’ll ask what feels like a million questions, and side by side, we’ll craft your résumé through at least seven Zoom-enabled, screen-sharing work sessions:

• Résumé Writing, Career Strategy & Interview Prep Session 1 (60 min)

• Résumé Writing, Career Strategy & Interview Prep Session 2 (60 min)

• Résumé Writing, Career Strategy & Interview Prep Session 3 (60 min)

• Résumé Writing, Career Strategy & Interview Prep Session 4 (60 min)

• Résumé Writing, Career Strategy & Interview Prep Session 5 (60 min)

• Résumé Writing, Career Strategy & Interview Prep Session 6 (60 min)

• Résumé Writing, Career Strategy & Interview Prep Session 7 (60 min)

Transitioning from research to writing

There may be some overlap between Phase 1 and Phase 2, but once we settle into the résumé writing sessions, our focus shifts entirely to translating your story into a highly strategic résumé. I still can’t help smiling when clients tell me a Korn Ferry recruiter called it “the best résumé they’d ever seen.” That feedback never gets old.

Real-time, side-by-side collaboration

Throughout this phase, we’ll work side-by-side in real time, with every session conducted via Zoom screen-sharing. You’ll be actively involved in every decision about wording, structure, and content-giving you full insight and authority over what’s included or omitted. This collaborative approach means you’re not just receiving a résumé written for you; you’re co-creating it with my expert guidance, ensuring your voice, values, and ambitions are authentically reflected in the final product.

Building narrative together

We’ll tackle everything from “flooring and sheet-rocking to interior decorating” as we build your résumé together. While you’re welcome to draft between sessions-and I’ll hand over the draft for your input-I’ll typically handle most of the writing, so you can focus on clarity and strategy.

Project timing

Sometimes, clients choose to go beyond the anticipated number of sessions because of the value they find in this process. Since we’re connected by Zoom at every step, it’s never a surprise. If time or resources are a concern, let’s discuss it up front to ensure the program is the right fit for you.

One process, multiple benefits

Here are a few of the common byproducts of the introspective work we do together:

• Self-Perception: Insights you gain may shape how you present yourself in your daily work life, while influencing your self-perception and professional image.

• PR Strategies: The content we develop can be repurposed by your company’s PR team for various materials, such as investor relations, RFPs, pitch decks, and corporate bio pages.

• Interviewing: The process often serves as valuable preparation for common interview questions, helping you better articulate your experience, and how that experience might help a new company.

• Executive / Board Bios: If applicable, the content can be used for executive bios and board bios, with additional time allocated as needed.

We’ll use the clarity and copy we develop to eventually build a LinkedIn presence that serves your short- and long-term goals.

Unlike a résumé that you can tune to each job spec and submission, LinkedIn needs to be all the things to all the potential readers. For instance, someone targeting an in-house CFO role *and* an in-house advisor role at a pension fund can create two resumes (although I generally advise against it), but they have only one LinkedIn profile.

Becoming poachable requires that we elevate your story so it’s seen by both audiences as if it’s written for them alone. My strategy is to develop a LinkedIn that reads like a tool for business—one that doesn’t invite speculation from your connections about your career intentions—but with the underlying keywords, concepts, and proof points that someone with hiring authority will need to find you.

My strategy is to develop a LinkedIn profile that functions as a research-backed business tool; one that doesn’t invite speculation from your connections about your career intentions. Through carefully chosen keyword placement, proof points, and subtle cues, your profile will maintain confidentiality and avoid signaling to colleagues or competitors that you’re exploring new opportunities. This approach ensures you remain visible to the right decision-makers, while appearing “happy where you are” to your network-a critical balance for executives and leaders

How?

• We’ll be strategic about how we convert your résumé content into LinkedIn (it’s not a simple copy-paste).

• Despite what many people will tell you, we’ll think of your LinkedIn profile as genuine tool for business instead of merely as an online résumé (“Your LinkedIn Profile Might Be Giving Away Trade Secrets”)

• We’ll set your profile as a “quiet lure” to attract passive attention, while powerfully supporting your active or stealth job search intentions.

How we’ll do it:

When your résumé is nearly or completely finished, we'll shift our attention to LinkedIn. The "About" section is where a lot of careful strategy and attention can make the whole profile transformative.

That said, I’ve done this work and I’m still surprised by how challenging the “About” section can be. It’s also the most fun and the most rewarding section once completed.

Long before we begin crafting your LinkedIn copy, you’ll begin working on my LinkedIn for Business Questionnaire (I'll release it during Phase 2). When we finally begin writing, we’ll carry out the work over several writing sessions, again using Zoom’s screen-sharing capabilities so you’re smack in the middle of crafting your own public-facing story.

• LinkedIn Profile Development with Strategic Intent Session 1 (60 min)

• LinkedIn Profile Development with Strategic Intent Session 2 (60 min)

• LinkedIn Profile Development with Strategic Intent Session 3 (60 min)

  Extended time is available when needed, with 45-55% of clients electing to extend their projects to accommodate the complexity of their profiles.

Writing your story is the foundation of our work, of course, but you’ll receive a total of three modules that will comprehensively guide you through the broader overhaul of your LinkedIn profile, ranging from the pros and cons of various LinkedIn features (what's good for a recent grad isn't necessarily great for a company leader), to the full public treatment of your career story.

Dual purpose profile, aka the secret sauce:

Because I work mostly with people who don’t want to give away their real intentions on LinkedIn, I generally position client profiles as a tool for business, with all of the inline keywords, underpinnings, dog whistles, halo effects, indirect references, and other subtle strategies that lets them appear “happy where they are” while making them findable for the roles and opportunities we identified in Phase 1.

It’s not all fun and games. Our lively, challenging, sometimes-grueling, but hopefully fun Zoom-based work sessions will ultimately result in usable materials for your next move.

Our bursts of visionary insight and practical grinding-at-the-details will eventually produce a forward-looking Library of Master Documents, which includes:

1. Executive Résumé (for humans and machines)

2. Résumé Addendum (if needed)

3. LinkedIn Overhaul

   1. LinkedIn Module 1 of 3: Principles & Philosophies

   2. LinkedIn Module 2 of 3: Sections, Connections & Technical Tidbits

   3. LinkedIn Module 3 of 3: Public-facing Copy

4. Cover Letter Kit

5. Variable Introductory Paragraphs for Cover Letter

6. Thank You Letter Template

7. Thank You Email Templates

8. References Sheet

9. Salary History Sheet (not necessary in all U.S. states)

Add-ons available include executive / board bios and pitch decks, as well as short-form bios for book jackets, speech introductions, social profiles, and beyond.

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