Career Integration Program

Got multiple career ambitions?

Nearly 70% of the active, stealth, and passive job seekers I support are weighing multiple viable career paths. For these professionals, the challenge isn’t just selecting a direction. It’s engaging in thoughtful career exploration, assessing personal and market fit, and integrating those insights into a cohesive story that positions them for the future they want to pursue.

Whether mapping executive next steps, considering mid-career functional pivots, or laying the foundation for long-term career success, clients in the Career Integration Program tackle questions of qualifications, transferable leadership skills, and long-term aspirations both before and throughout the development of their résumé and LinkedIn assets. This process requires compressing, prioritizing, and synthesizing complex ambitions into a single narrative—one that signals intent, adaptability, and strategic focus, rather than indecision.

Most conventional job search advice oversimplifies this process, urging professionals to “pick a lane.” That approach ignores the multi-dimensional reality faced by those whose experience spans industries, functions, and evolving goals.

The Career Integration Program moves beyond siloed résumé writing. It provides a research-backed system for developing a unified, multi-directional leadership brand—built on proof, not promise—that clearly conveys your distinct value on LinkedIn, on paper, and in key career conversations, while enabling multiple potential next steps that remain both coherent and credible.

Why is ‘integration’ part of this program’s name?

Whether you're pursuing adjacent roles, aspirational moves, or a direct next step, the Career Integration Program helps you unify your story without limiting your direction.

Before LinkedIn, it was possible—advisable, even—to tailor each résumé to the opportunity at hand. Résumé customization is still important, but today, you only get one LinkedIn profile—and it’s public. You can’t rewrite your entire profile every time a new opportunity arises, and if you have multiple aspirations, you may be targeting varied opportunities at the same time. Maintaining several versions simply isn’t sustainable. That’s where the real value of this program comes in.

The Career Integration Program is named for this challenge: integrating multiple viable career paths into one credible leadership brand. You’ll develop a résumé, LinkedIn profile, and messaging strategy that work across platforms, audiences, industries—and, most importantly, the two or three career directions you’re considering.

And while most résumé writers and career coaches encourage focus, the real challenge is more complex: how do you remain flexible while sounding intentional? How do you position yourself for multiple futures while honoring the depth of your experience?

The work we do here pulls triple duty:

1. Researching real-world role requirements: We analyze market signals (e.g., job descriptions, industry articles, investor reports) to surface what hiring leaders actually seek across your target roles. Then we help you assess both your fit and your appetite for those demands.

2. Identifying shared themes across multiple paths: We extract the throughlines—competencies, context, results—that show up across your possible directions. These patterns become the foundation of your narrative.

3. Building a unified narrative that flexes: From résumé to LinkedIn, we shape a cohesive story that holds up under scrutiny, signals credibility in multiple directions, and holds the best chance of working for both ATS and human readers.

This is the work behind the work. When clients go through this process, it often answers questions they didn’t know how to ask, settles persistent uncertainties, and unlocks possibilities they couldn’t previously name.

Not sure this is the right path? Explore alternatives.

The Resume Readiness Package is ideal if you’re pursuing a single, defined direction. It focuses on a single target role or functional area, helping you refine positioning, craft a market-aligned résumé, and present a credible, future-facing narrative.

The Career Explorer Program is designed for professionals who aren’t fully decided, or who want to explore multiple sectors, functions, or role types before pinpointing the next move. Using the same structured methodology as the Career Integration Program, it combines career analysis, narrative development, and research to surface new possibilities and test-fit emerging directions.

Returning clients connect through the Active & Returning Clients page.

Bonus: Reverse-engineer your career

This program isn’t just about what comes next—it’s also about what comes after that.

Because we begin with research-backed career analysis through the Job Description Analysis (JDA) methodology, many clients use this program to reverse-engineer their way into the long-term roles they truly want. The process connects present decisions to future ambition, helping clients see each move as part of a larger arc of career design.

Case Studies:

Across nearly three decades, I’ve worked with more than 2,700 professionals at every stage of their careers. It would be impossible to capture every story here, but what follows is a small collection representing those journeys—leaders at vastly different points, navigating questions that are as distinct as spring and autumn sunsets.

Their backgrounds, ambitions, and timelines were all different. What they shared was a deep curiosity about what’s next and a willingness to dig in and figure it out. Many were purposefully architecting their careers for the first time, choosing exploration over inertia—determined to steer, not drift.

Since I developed the JDA methodology in 2009, hundreds of professionals have used it to shape thoughtful, intentional trajectories—many now sitting in the leadership roles they envisioned years ago. The process doesn’t just produce a résumé; it helps you build a compass—one that keeps you aligned with your long-term vision while staying responsive to near-term opportunities.

Step 2 of 3: Review this program in detail

Phase 1: Career Research & Analysis

Before we write a single word, we need to know:

• What career directions you’re pursuing

• What those paths require

• Where the overlap exists between them

• How to position your past, present, and future in one coherent narrative

Leveraging Jared Redick’s Job Description Analysis to develop a research-based framework:

• JDA Interpretation Session: Research, Analysis & Discovery (60 minutes)

• JDA Interpretation Session: Research, Analysis & Discovery (60 minutes)

• JDA Interpretation Session: Research, Analysis & Discovery (60 minutes)

Add-on time available when needed.

Phase 2: Résumé Writing, Strategy & Interview Prep

Once you’ve narrowed your focus—or clarified your career territory—we move into hands-on writing sessions via Zoom.

Together, we’ll shape a résumé that aligns with your chosen direction while deepening your clarity about what’s next. Every meeting blends practical writing mechanics with reflective dialogue, and many clients describe it as a surprising form of leadership coaching.

Collaborative decision-making and writing that doubles as interview prep:

• Résumé Session 1 (60 minutes)

• Résumé Session 2 (60 minutes)

• Résumé Session 3 (60 minutes)

• Résumé Session 4 (60 minutes)

• Résumé Session 5 (60 minutes)

• Résumé Session 6 (60 minutes)

• Résumé Session 7 (60 minutes)

Add-on time available when needed.

Phase 3: LinkedIn Profile Development with Strategic Intent

Your résumé is targeted and adaptable; your LinkedIn profile must perform across all audiences—and do so discreetly. For those navigating passive or stealth searches, balancing visibility with discretion is nuanced but essential.

Still sharing screens via Zoom, we’ll create a LinkedIn presence that:

• Is keyword- and context-rich, strategic, and discreet

• Reads like a business tool, not a job search announcement

• Reflects your specific context—whether actively looking or simply open to the right opportunity

Tools & Deliverables:

• “LinkedIn for Business” Questionnaire (pre-writing prep)

• 3 supporting modules covering LinkedIn infrastructure and related decision-making, public-facing copy of your narrative, high-value keyword placement, and much more

Building a credible digital brand with all the right signals and none of the missteps:

• LinkedIn Ideation & Profile Development (60 minutes)

• LinkedIn Ideation & Profile Development (60 minutes)

• LinkedIn Ideation & Profile Development (60 minutes)

  Add-on time available when needed.

Goal: A full Library of Master Documents

It’s not all fun and games—but it’s not all grind, either. The goal is for our deep dives, challenging Q&As, bursts of clarity, and (yes) occasionally fun Zoom-based sessions to produce something enduring: a forward-looking Library of Master Documents you can use for this next step—and the one after that.

Deliverables include:

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 (where applicable)

Optional add-ons:

Executive / board bios and pitch decks, as well as short-form bios for book jackets, speech introductions, social profiles, and beyond.

FAQ

Step 3 of 3: Compare all three paths and book a consult

This work is deep and strategic. Let’s be sure this is the right path for where you are now.

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