Counseling Specialties: I provide client-focused and effective career counseling and strategic job search coaching services for professionals, managers and executives, that enables them to improve their careers and lives. I've coached individuals from a variety of sectors, including financial services, legal, marketing, publishing, digital media, IT, creative sectors, and technology-based professions. I coach my clients and stimulate them to generate and clarify their goals. And they can--and do attain satisfying results landing jobs and changing careers. I will work with you to bring out your most valuable and 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.
With my proven, 6-Step Method you can successfully and easily learn 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. Handle objections such as the lack of a college degree, age, etc. 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, competitive resume, LinkedIn Profile and targeted campaign letters that are strategically branded to consistently get positive results. Network in a targeted manner that brings leads. Ace job interviews and develop highly competitive follow-up and positioning strategies. Negotiate for the salary you want and land the right position in less time. Excel in your new position and earn the respect of colleagues and employers. You will be able to discover and develop a new career or position that improves the quality of your life, and I can help you to find it.
"I highly
recommend Mr. Flantzer. He was instrumental in helping me discover a direction for my job search and in getting properly organized and moving forward in earnest." --Peter J (Clinical Laboratory Scientist)
"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."
--Ariel Kaminer, "City Critic," The New York Times
"And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and
intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become."
--Steve Jobs
Counselor Profile: Bio: Hal Flantzer has been a career coach and counselor in New York City for the last twenty-five years. As a recognized career expert and speaker, he has created a
variety of career and job search workshops, including those dealing with career change, retirement options, salary
negotiations, interviewing, resumes, and entrepreneurial/consulting career
options. He also developed and hosted networking
groups for professionals in e-business, graphic arts, non-profit management,
IT, and marketing. Hal 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, NYU Polytech and for the University-wide Career
Seminar series at the New School for Social Research in Greenwich Village. He has been interviewed
and quoted in The New York Times, Newsday, The Baltimore Sun, CareerBuilder, The Career
Planning and Adult Development Journal, 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 also works as a senior
consultant with a top-flight career management and human resources consulting
firm and with entertainment artists and professionals at the Actors Fund of America. He also served as the Director for Careers and Business Alliances with
AdviceZone.com, an e-commerce 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 Member, National Career Development Association 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
advanced graduate studies in Clinical Psychology at the Graduate Faculty of the
New School for Social Research, and a B.A. in Psychology from Suffolk
University, Boston, MA. "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)
"Feel yourself being quietly drawn by the deeper pull of
what you truly love."
-- Rumi
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