Career Strategy Consultation

Is this for you?

You may have built substantial experience over many years and now find yourself considering what comes next.

Perhaps you have been in the same role, organisation or sector for a long time. Perhaps you are exploring a significant career transition. Or perhaps you have started applying for roles and are not getting the response you expected.

At this stage of your career, the challenge is often not a lack of experience.

It is knowing how to position that experience clearly for the opportunities you now want.

Your career may have become broader, more complex and less easily captured in a traditional resume. You may have accumulated leadership, commercial, stakeholder, strategic or specialist experience that is highly valuable, but difficult to translate outside the context in which you built it.

Sometimes the problem is not your experience. It is how your experience is being understood.

A Career Strategy Consultation gives you the opportunity to step back, take stock and consider how your career story, professional positioning and job-search approach align with where you want to go next.

What we will work through

During your two-hour virtual consultation with Karen Hollenbach, we will explore your career history, strengths, experience and goals, together with the types of roles and opportunities you are considering.

We will also review your current resume and LinkedIn profile to consider how effectively they communicate the breadth and relevance of your experience.

Depending on your situation, we may explore:

• what you want from your next role or career chapter

• the leadership, commercial, specialist and transferable capabilities most relevant to your next move

• how your experience translates beyond your current or previous organisation

• whether the roles you are targeting are aligned with your strengths and professional direction

• how clearly your resume and LinkedIn profile communicate your value

• where your professional positioning may need to be sharpened

• practical priorities for your job search, networking and visibility.

The purpose is to help you make better-informed decisions before investing more time and energy in applications, conversations or opportunities that may not be well aligned.

What is included

Your Career Strategy Consultation includes:

• a confidential pre-consultation career questionnaire

• review of your current resume and LinkedIn profile

• a two-hour virtual consultation via Zoom

• personalised career strategy and professional positioning advice

• an agreed action plan for your next steps

• a written summary of your action plan within one week of your consultation.

About your consultant

Your Career Strategy Consultation will be led by Karen Hollenbach, Founder of Think Bespoke and an experienced LinkedIn consultant, profile writer and career mentor.

Karen has worked with experienced professionals and senior leaders across a wide range of industries, helping them clarify their direction, strengthen their professional positioning and communicate the value of their experience more effectively.

Her approach is practical, thoughtful and tailored to the individual. The focus is on helping you make sense of where you are now, where you want to go next and how your professional story supports that direction.

Who is this service for?

This service is particularly suited to experienced professionals and senior leaders who:

• have been in the same role, organisation or sector for a significant period

• have not needed to actively manage a job search for several years

• are considering a substantial career change or transition

• are applying for roles without getting the response they expected

• need to reposition broad or complex experience for a different opportunity

• are finding it difficult to articulate their leadership, commercial or specialist value

• feel their resume or LinkedIn profile no longer reflects where they want to go next

• want an independent, experienced perspective before making their next move.

This is not an executive-only service. It is for people with meaningful professional experience who want thoughtful, practical guidance about what comes next.

Does this include resume or LinkedIn profile rewriting?

Resume and LinkedIn profile rewriting are not included in the Career Strategy Consultation.

We will review your existing documents and discuss where your positioning or professional story may need strengthening.

Think Bespoke also offers LinkedIn Profile Writing and related professional positioning services, which can be considered separately where appropriate.

What should I prepare?

Before your consultation, you will complete a confidential online questionnaire and provide your current resume and LinkedIn profile.

Where relevant, we also recommend providing links to or copies of a small number of roles or opportunities you have recently applied for or are considering.

This is particularly useful if you are exploring more senior, broader or different roles, as it helps us assess how well your current positioning supports the direction you want to take.

A clearer way forward

You do not need to have your whole career mapped out before you begin.

At a senior or experienced stage of your career, the next move is often less obvious than the last.

Sometimes the most useful step is to pause, step back from the immediate pressure of applications and take a clearer look at what you have built, what you want now and how those two things connect.

The Career Strategy Consultation is designed to help you make sense of the experience you already have, strengthen how you position it and decide where to focus your energy next.