Candibox Recruitment and Epiphany Career & Life Coaching Partnership
Candibox recruits digital talent for brands, start-ups, and scale-ups. The types of roles they recruit for include product designers, UX designers, user researchers, digital marketing managers, and visual designers.
Like me, here at Epiphany Career & Life Coaching, the founders of Candibox, David and Hayley Pratley McGill, are passionate about ensuring job seekers know how to apply for a role in a way that gets them noticed. When reviewing applications, or when sourcing candidates via LinkedIn, they frequently find that the information needed to be able to ascertain whether a candidate should be shortlisted simply isn’t there. And as a result, the application goes into the reject pile.
Why does this happen? From my experience as a career coach I know that to get shortlisted you have to communicate who you are, what you bring, and why you want to work for a company. When recruiters, such as Candibox, have hundreds of applications to sift through, to get noticed you need to make sure your application grabs their attention within the first two seconds. By not providing the information they are looking for in your CV, cover letter, LinkedIn, and/or in a design portfolio, it means three things. Firstly, you won’t get invited to interview for the role you applied for. Secondly, it’s unlikely the recruiter will remember you for future roles as you didn’t grab their attention, and thirdly you will quickly feel frustrated by your lack of progress.
That is why Candibox Recruitment and I have decided to collaborate in a coaching, recruitment partnership.
Career Coaching Partnership Packages
We have put together three career coaching packages to help you get shortlisted. We believe that providing feedback and coaching on job search documents, personal branding, and interview technique will benefit candidates, recruitment agencies as well as the companies who are hiring.
As a candidate, when you know application best practices and follow them, both your confidence and success will increase as you get invited for more interviews. Recruiters will benefit as it will be far easier and quicker for them to source candidates as the information they need to see will be provided by candidates. And when it comes to companies who are hiring, when candidates are able to intelligently express who they are and what they bring, hiring managers will be able to offer roles to those who have not only the skills needed but fit just as importantly fit the teams and organisation culture requirements.
And, the cherry on top of the cake, for you the candidate? If you learn and apply job search best practices learned through your coaching, it may well reap financial benefits. The junior product design candidates I have recently been coaching on how to position themselves in their CV, LinkedIn, and design portfolios so they get noticed, have been landing roles of £5000-10,000+ in salary than other candidates with the same experience.
Candibox Bronze Partnership Package – £60
1 X 30-minute coaching session
1 X follow up email
I will review your CV or Cover Letter or LinkedIn profile and then provide feedback in a 30-minute coaching session on what you need to do to optimise it.
This Bronze package enables you to email me once more post-session, after you have made the changes, if you would like me to take a final look and provide any final comments.
Candibox Silver Partnership Package – £160
1 X 90-minute coaching session
1 X follow-up email
CV & cover letters, Linkedin and, if you have one, design portfolio review.
Prior to our meeting, I will review your documents. During our 90-minute coaching session, I provide in-depth feedback and tips that you can then act upon to make sure all are optimised. The tips given follow the latest best practices gleaned from hiring managers to ensure you have the highest chance of being shortlisted and getting through applicant tracking systems.
Added to this, I can show you how to use LinkedIn to get noticed and make the right connections. Many clients tell me that after following my LinkedIn guide they have recruiters reaching out to them and are landing roles that way.
This silver package enables you to email me once more post-session, after you have made the changes, if you would like me to take a final look and provide any final comments.
Candibox Gold Partnership Package – £300 (saving £15)
1 X 90-minute coaching session
2 X 60 minute coaching sessions
Personal Brand
Your personal brand is vital in today’s job market. It is mentioned in CV summaries, LinkedIn profiles and enables you to be able to confidently introduce yourself in person. It is how you let potential employers know who you are, what you do, and why you do it. Whether you are a career changer or a seasoned professional being able to tell your story is key. We will put together your branding statement which will form part of your CV summary, LinkedIn about section as well as how to answer the ‘Tell me about yourself’ question at interview.
CV & cover letters, Linkedin and, if you have one, design portfolio review.
Prior to our meeting, I will review your documents. During our 90-minute coaching session, I provide in-depth feedback and tips that you can then act upon to make sure all are optimised. The tips given follow the latest best practices gleaned from hiring managers to ensure you have the highest chance of being shortlisted and getting through applicant tracking systems
Added to this, I can show you how to use LinkedIn to get noticed and make the right connections. Many clients tell me that after following my LinkedIn guide they have recruiters reaching out to them and are landing roles that way.
Interview Technique
Hiring managers require an answer to arguably just three questions. Can you do the job? Will you do the job? Are you the right fit for our team? So you can shine feedback is given on improving answers, physical appearance, and body language. Following these sessions, clients report increased confidence and many say they believe it is the practice session that resulted in their job offer.
How to book
If you want to get started with your coaching asap, pay using Paypal below then email me via the contact form to let me know. I will reply with a calendly link to book yourself in for your first coaching session.
Or
Email me via the contact form to let me know you would like an exploratory chat and I will reply with a calendly link so we can mutually explore if I am the right coach for you.
How to pay
Payment for all regular coaching sessions and gift vouchers can be made via bank transfer or Paypal.
If a unique package has been created or a booking is made with an offer, payment can only be taken by bank transfer.
Coaching sessions will commence after your payment has been received.
