Get a step-by-step approach to career ignition This service is worth your time no matter how you interact with the team and where you are in your career search. I began connecting with HTYC through their podcast and eventually starting working with them as I needed guidance on career change. They took a seemingly mysterious, definitely scary journey and provided a guided approach to change, introspection and career ignition. Fast forward and I am in a brand new industry, am challenged, have endless opportunities for growth and making twice as much as I did in my previous job.

Highly Recommended and Will Work With HTYC Again I have worked with Scott and Phillip a couple of times through work transitions and have enjoyed the experience every time. They know their stuff and do a great job helping you figure out your next steps whether it's negotiations or getting clarity on your future career path. If/when I'm looking to negotiate for bigger/better job positions in the future, I will be reaching out to the HTYC team again for their help and expertise! I have recommended HTYC to friends in the past and will continue too!

Putting Advice into Action I had an opportunity to take some of the advice I received from Phillip as part of my coaching in the Fall of 2022 and put it into action. I actually got a call back from a job I interviewed for 2 months earlier and didn’t get. I guess I did really well in the interview and they put me on a shortlist for any future openings (which is often the case in the public sector). Since I had already interviewed, things were going to progress straight to the initial offer. To make sure I was ready, I consulted my ideal career profile and assessed my current working situation (which wasn’t great) to determine my salary range. Since public sector salaries are generally governed by policies and collective bargaining agreements, I anticipated that the initial offer would be quite low. In fact, it was $20,000 less than what I was making at my current gig! Since I was desperate to get out, I might have just went along with the initial offer, fearing that they might rescind the offer if I tried to negotiate to a higher salary. Thanks to my chats with Phillip and the modules recorded by Scott, I knew the importance of being honest with myself and what my bare minimum to shift jobs would be (despite my desperation!). Despite REALLY wanting out, I knew I'd also be miserable if I took this gig and was earning less in an inflationary economy! By being intentional and planning ahead, I was able to establish a range that would allow me to get a bump in salary (even when factoring my performance raise at my previous job) without putting the recruiter off. I presented this to them in an honest and transparent way by letting them know where I was now in my current salary range and where they’ll need to be for me to accept the offer. In the end, they met me at the lower end of what I proposed. Nonetheless, by doing the work in advance, I was satisfied with the result because it satisfied two important criteria I established: getting out of my current job and getting a salary bump. Having that knowledge from HTYC really gave me the confidence to approach this situation in a systematic way. Without it, I may have taken a significant pay cut out of desperation or compelled them to rescind the offer because my demands were too high. Salary negotiation is just a microcosm of what you’ll learn at HTYC! When you take the time to set parameters for your ‘ideal job’ (location, salary, commute times, etc.), the ‘overwhelm’ that can accompany these kinds of decisions is reduced significantly!

Getting Intentional After spending 2 decades in and out of difficult and toxic work environments, I needed to get serious about making better decisions and finding more meaningful work for the next 2 decades of my career. I knew I needed guidance because I had not been intentional about what I really wanted to do or getting clear about what that looked like. I came across the Happen to Your Career Podcast in my search for a career coach and loved their "whole life" approach to coaching. Because work is such an enormous part of our lives, it is important that it is as meaningful and purposeful as our family and downtime. I went in knowing I not only needed to leave my current job, but leave the entire city I was living in. Working with my HTYC career coach, Ang made clear that I was living outside of my values in nearly every area of my life and that I could absolutely do something about it! Since then I have been on a journey to intentionally design my life and continue to get clear on my vision. I have moved to a fabulous new city, halfway across the country and have an extremely fulfilling new job with the collaborative and creative team I longed for. Every morning I wake up knowing that I am living my values in every area of life and I could not have gotten here without the guidance of the HTYC team.

So glad I contacted HTYC when I did So glad I contacted HTYC when I did. Phillip helped me out of one of the hardest periods of my life - I was struggling with burnout from a previous job and needed a new position, but one that wouldn’t leave me in the same position as I had been in. That’s a tricky situation to be in as I needed to do some self- and job- exploration, but was also under a time constraint to get a new job. Phillip helped to keep me motivated, encouraged, on-track and was empathetic and understanding of the struggles I was going through. Without his guidance and valuable job-search techniques, I wouldn’t have landed the job I’m in today. It’s VERY well suited to me, and I even received $8,000 more than my target salary (which was also $7,000 higher than my previous salary). It’s been 1 year in my new position and I’m happier than ever. Thank you Phillip!