Career Coaching

Are you feeling unfulfilled in your current role or navigating a career transition? Are you’re dealing with redundancy, graduating from university and looking for your first-ever job, or seeking a change in direction?

Are you challenged around :

  • Understanding who you are: By exploring your unique story, core values, motivations, strengths, and skills you can gain clarify on what you want – or at least must avoid – in your next role. It is important to recognise that the expectation for everyone to have a purpose is unrealistic, the majority of us don’t and it is ok
  • Targeted Job Search: Identifying and strategically targeting positions that align with your goals.
  • Emotional Resilience: Managing emotions, often unhelpful ones, and maintaining confidence and resilience to remain focused on achieving the right opportunity

If these resonate with you, I can help you accelerate your search and land the right role for you, no matter your career stage. I use practical brain-based tools and proven career strategies alongside business acumen to ensure you know what you are looking for and stand out in today’s competitive job market.

“Sophie’s approach is structured and rounded. Through this process, I regained self-confidence and optimism to find the job that suits me.” E-commerce Marketing – Retail and fashion sector / UK 

Core Outcomes

I will provide you with structured support, targeted and sequenced activities, tips, and resources to move forward and

  • Clarify your proposition: Define your skills, strengths, motivations, values and personality traits to create an authentic ‘personal story’ that represents
  • Elevate your narrative: Develop a powerful ‘career story’ that resonates with employers and positions you as a standout candidate.
  • Create opportunities: Identify job ideas and create a targeted action plan to understand their potential
  • Master networking: Get much-needed information to fine-tune your project, extend your professional network and get recommendations
  • Be impactful : Write your CV, LinkedIn, and letter to convincingly showcase your achievements and potential so you get noticed and land interviews 
  • Be interview-ready: Prepare thoroughly and practice your interview skills to confidently tackle even the toughest questions, demonstrating your fit and readiness for the role
  • Adopt the right mindset: Remain confident, optimistic and resilient, and best manage the emotional lows and highs of this journey, whilst learning along the way 

The more you apply yourself, the more you’ll achieve.

Note for University Graduates: We will focus on understanding employers’ expectations regarding potential and mindset to ensure cultural fit. We will also address and demystify the hot topic of  ‘having a purpose.” Not everyone has a purpose, and it is ok!


“Sophie has helped me realise my true potential through focusing on my core skills while helping me cut through my mental ‘noise’. She has asked all the right questions, found the perfect balance between firm and compassionate guidance and set me up expertly on my career path.” L’Oréal graduate program – 23 years old

Format

Individual coaching sessions: Tailored 90-minute weekly sessions designed to meet your needs, with actionable tasks to implement between meetings so you are accountable and move forward

Co-creative Group workshops: Engage with peers in a dynamic environment that enhances accountability and fosters innovative thinking. Benefit from diverse perspectives to enrich your thinking and outcomes.

“Sophie gave me the confidence that I could break into sports media. I was getting interviews but wasn’t successful in any of them, and I felt very deflated but when I met Sophie, she helped put me in the right mind-set. A month later I got a job, and I have so much to thank Sophie for! Getting that first job was hard but Sophie got me over the line”. Louis – 24 years old

Why me 

My Approach: 

  • It starts with you : Having personally navigated redundancy and a career change, I understand the challenges you face and will fully support your needs and journey 
  • Leveraging Extensive Business Acumen: With over twenty years of senior-level corporate experience across various sectors and over fourteen years as an executive coach, I understand business requirements and how to prepare you for success in today’s job market.
  • Science-Driven Insights for Results: I integrate fact-based neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and cognitive behavioural therapy to help you understand how your feelings impact your behaviours and actions, creating opportunities.

My Style: I adopt a caring yet challenging approach, encouraging self-reflection and resourcefulness. As a bilingual and binational professional with international experience, I am open-minded, curious and value inclusion and collaboration to drive performance.

Collaborative Excellence: My experience and expertise are validated through collaborations with recognised French institutions like L’ Ecole Polytechnique de Paris (the first French engineering university) and HEC (the first French business school)—the French Oxbridge equivalent. I also draw on the French gold-standard facilitation training in co-development and career change programme, L’AVARAP.

Finally, as a mum of two university students, I am genuinely motivated to create pathways for newcomers to secure their first roles, turning a challenging job market into opportunities for the next generation.

Let’s talk

Book a free 30mn appointment for a chat in my calendar below, with a call or a text on 07554 323 883 or an email at sophie@sophieappleby.com