Counseling Specialties:
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
--Joseph Campbell
Career and Job Search Coaching and Planning, Outplacement Counseling, Exploring Entrepreneurial and Consulting Options, Job Search Strategies, Resume Development, and Salary Negotiations. Much of my counseling deals with career change, developing clarity about career goals, re-employment, entrepreneurial and/or career development for recent graduates, mid-career and senior-level professionals.
Sectors and functions serviced include: financial services, law, medicine and health care services, accounting, marketing, advertising, public relations, non-profit (including arts, social and community services, and government), pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, IT, entertainment/digital media, publishing, retail and e-commerce.
Counselor Profile:
Since 1994, I have provided highly individualized career counseling and strategic job search coaching services for professionals, managers and executives. I've coached individuals from a variety of sectors, including candidates from financial services, public accounting, legal, marketing, publishing, Digital Media, creative sectors, and technology-based professions. I work with my clients to stimulate and enable them to generate and clarify their career goals. And they can attain satisfying outcomes in their careers and in their lives.
I greatly enjoy--in fact, my passion is to work with talented people so that they can fully apply their talents and enhance their lives.
My goal with you is to form a collaborative and enriching relationship that will invigorate your career development. I can work with you to uncover and give voice your strengths and skills, explore viable career options, conduct a dynamic job search, and start you on a new and satisfying career path. I have already counseled hundreds of others to get unstuck and change their work and their lives--and I know I can help you, too.
I can coach you to bring out your best and most unique qualities, so you can learn to employ them to your best advantage. And that is the first step to a better job and/or a new career.
I'll work with you to:
- Manage and profit from an unexpected job loss and/or career change--and clear away your confusion about the job market and your career direction.
- Leverage your skills and strengths, accomplishments, preferences and values to develop a satisfying career path.
- Fine-tune your career strategies and job objectives, and create a powerful marketing plan.
- Develop an effective resume and targeted campaign letters that consistently get positive results.
- Succeed in job interviews, network in a targeted manner, and develop solid follow-up and positioning strategies.
- Successfully negotiate salary and land the right position in less time.
- Excel in a new position and earn the respect of colleagues and employers.
"Thank you for all your hard work, suggestions, counseling, mock interviewing, directed study and for being a friend. You're a tremendously talented career counselor and are extremely adept at directing your clients in their job searches. I am glad that . . . you stepped in and were there when I needed you. Without you I would still be looking for the right position."
--Barry W. (Portfolio Manager)
"He had just taken a few of the things I said and strung them together. . . . But it was further than all my own thinking had ever gotten me." --Arial Kaminer, "City Critic," The New York Times (November 16, 2009)
Biography:
Hal Flantzer has worked as a career counselor in his own private practice in New York City for the last fifteen years. As a recognized career expert and speaker, Hal has created a variety of career workshops, including those dealing with career change, salary negotiations, interviewing, resumes, and entrepreneurial/consulting career options. He also developed networking groups for professionals in e-business, graphic arts, non-profit management, IT, and marketing. He has been an invited speaker by organizations such as the Project Managers Institute of NYC, The International Facility Managers Association, the Newswomen's Club of NY, and for the University-wide Career Seminar series at New School University in Greenwich Village.
He has been interviewed and quoted in The New York Times, TheStreet.com, Newsday, The Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, CareerBuilder, The Career Planning and Adult Development Journal, The Malaysia Times and The New York Post. In addition, Hal serves a Career Consultant for the Chartered Financial Analysts Institute as part of their Career Resources Consortium, and as a career expert for Networking for Professionals, Inc. His resumes have appeared in The Quick Resume and Cover Letter Book and Same Day Resumes by Michael Farr (JIST Publishers, 2005).
Hal is also a senior consultant with a top-flight career management and human resources consulting firm. He also served as the Director for Careers and Business Alliances with AdviceZone.com, a digital media and publishing company. He was part of a team that developed a federally-funded project in New York City that provided retraining and employment assistance for downsized executives and managers. His previous work experience included executive recruiting, corporate legal consulting services, and community social services.
Professional Affiliations:
- Former executive Board Member, Association of Career Professionals, International-New York Chapter
- Founding Member, and former Board Member, Career Counselors Consortium
- New York Network Contact and Member, Career Planning and Adult Development Network
- Career Counselor, Chartered Financial Analysts Institute Career Centre
Hal has a Certificate in Adult Career Planning and Development from New York University, in addition to an M.A. and advanced graduate studies in Clinical/General Psychology at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, and a B.A. in Psychology from Suffolk University, Boston.
"I wanted to mention that Hal was an amazing help to me since it was my first ever real job search. If you all are ever kind enough to refer someone else as you did for me I highly recommend that you ask for him by name. He is a serious pro. "
--Patrick D. (Development Professional, Environmental Non-Profit Org.)
"Last week I went to 4 interviews and just finished another one yesterday. I know the results of my search would never have even been close to what they have been without your advice and help. So Mr. Hal Flantzer, . . . .I just HAD to thank you because I was in an interview the other day that lasted for about 3 hours and by the time I listened to my voice messages, there were two calls from other interested parties. At that moment I said, out loud too, that Hal Flantzer is a genius and I have to email him and thank him!"
--Samantha M. (Marketing Manager, Recording Industry)
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