“For me, this was also effective training in leadership.”

What’s the reason why you sought for career guidance? What’d stopped you in your professional life?

I’d had an engagement, and after this I started for myself. But it’s too lonely, so I needed someone who’d support me on my way to a permanent job.

What’s the most non-traditional or “different thinking” thing you learned?

It’s certain that there’s a good structure behind it that made sense. I saw that there’re many roads to Rome that I hadn’t seen before. The fact that I’d combine the career change program with a course in project management where the importance of setting goals had a lot of focus was a big plus. I got to know myself even better both through the JTI preference test and knowledge of the other 15 profiles that lie behind Jung’s typology. The competence mapping was an eye-opener. It made me aware that I was capable of more than I thought.

Seeing myself as a competence seller was a bit unusual, but eventually came naturally. The combination of the realization that it’s absolutely necessary to be ahead in a job market where the fewest jobs are advertised and that we learned effective methods were good for me. The hardest part was defining strengths and weaknesses.

How did the knowledge and methods you learned from the course affect you in your professional life?

When you learn methods of self-management, you also learn more about leading others. For me, this was also effective training in leadership. We worked a lot on communication strategies, which I’d benefited from in many contexts. CV writing and the importance of adaptation became extra useful since after the course. I’d, among other things, worked as a recruiter. I learned a lot about building good teams and my own role in a team – after all, I often take a leadership role. I’m generally left with increased self-awareness. This increased the chances of me bringing out the most relevance in my job search processes.

What’ve you benefited the most from afterwards?

Definitely adaptation of the CV and everything I’d to do before this, such as reading myself on the company’s website, mirroring their “voice” communicated via the job advertisement and website, highlighting 2-3 of my competence that were MOST relevant to the company and being aware on my success stories. Reading between the lines in advertised positions was an important lesson, because here I’d pick up information about future positions before they’re advertised. And creating strategies for calling before I sent in an application.