Jennifer Fink

Let's ☕️ chat! | Helping Mid-Career Business Professionals and Leaders clarify and land their ideal career move 👩‍💻 | Career Coaching + Resume Writing + Personal Branding + Job Search Strategy

I help ambitious Mid-career Business Leaders and Owners accelerate their path to a life and career they love. 

In 2011, I was struggling with my own clarity crisis. I knew I wanted more impact and growth in my career, but I was stalled out in indecision.

Two years later, I had identified my ideal career path, landed my dream job, and simultaneously launched my own company to help others navigate their career journey.

Today, I teach people (just like you!) how to use the same step-by-step process to clarify, attract, and land (or create) their ideal career opportunities.

Over the past 12+ years, I've taught 1000s of top MBAs and worked with 450+ individuals on navigating their career journey to:

✔️ Improve their habits and mindset,
✔️ Clarify what they truly want,
✔️ Articulate an alluring personal brand, 
✔️ Land or create their ideal career opportunities,
✔️ Operate more efficiently,
✔️ Communicate more effectively,
✔️ Make a greater impact, 
✔️ And get the most out of their lives and careers.

You can hear from some of my clients:

🤩 Brian H., "With her help, I've landed in what I consider to be the perfect job for me (for the first time in my life)."
🤩 Spencer H., "I am proud to share that I have gained professional clarity and was able to adjust my search to a more effective method that helped me land my dream job at my dream company."
🤩 Jennifer C., "Working with Jenni has been one of the best decisions of my life."
🤩 Doug S., "She kept me focused and accountable, and encouraged me to be curious and push myself beyond my inherently limited comfort zone."
🤩 Nghiem B., "Jenni has a natural gift to actively listen and ask questions that helped me see my innate abilities and unique power."
🤩 Nick B., "Working with Jenni changed the way I see myself, my career, and the entire social and financial economy of my household."
🤩 Emily ID, "Jenni did more for me in one hour than 10 years of therapy."

My guess is that if you knew how to achieve your biggest goals, you would have done it already. 

But figuring out what you want and turning that into a viable next career move is hard. Especially at mid-career, when it feels like a lot is riding on making the "right" choice and your time is running out.

Luckily, there is a better way. I work with my clients to:

1) Get rid of the mind trash that holds them back
2) Clarify what they want and where they are headed
3) Develop a strategic roadmap
4) Take focused actions that move them forward

Want a realistic picture of how to get where you want to go? Shoot me a DM to get started👩‍💻☕️

Founder and Director | Career and Executive Coaching for Mid-career Senior Professionals and Leaders

At Fink Development, we help successful mid-career business professionals, leaders, and executives clarify what they truly want out of their lives and careers, then create the behavior change and roadmap to get there.

We have a collective of power-house career and executive coaches specialized in the following areas of helping clients achieve their career aspirations.

* Clarifying their next ideal career move
* Launching a career transition
* Navigating a complex job search
* Landing remote and flexible work
* Landing a promotion to the next level of leadership 
* Thriving as a manager or leader
* Navigating a moment of complexity or uncertainty
* Stepping into senior leadership of C-suite for the first time
* Amplifying their brand to attract the opportunities they desire
* Building clarity around a new business or side-hustle
* Strategizing positioning, messaging, product/market fit, viable business models, marketing, and roadmaps to launch or scale a business 

We aim to help amplify each client's clarity around what they are trying to achieve, what they are struggling with, and recommend the best resource or coach we know to support them in making intentional moves in their lives and careers. 

Learn more at www.finkdevelopment.com and book a complimentary call.

Here we go, your one and done hack for writing your resume - use this for projects or entire jobs (depending on the complexity of your personal career)1) This is the problem I was hired to solve2)  This is how I solved it - tools, methodology, resources3) These are the results (preferably measurable - below is my article on how to quantify your role if you don't have personal metrics/KPI's)https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/metrics-quantifying-your-experience-kristen-fife-she-her-?trackingId=Q2FjcYzCTuKSzSDLR3W0Ig%3D%3D&amp;lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base_recent_activity_content_view%3Bn8%2ByEFvcRMG8UAfntqwgww%3D%3DCheck out my Kindle ebook on Resume &amp; Job Search Mistakes!  https://a.co/d/dvViVzdMy coaching services: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/kmfife_i-redesigned-my-career-services-infosheet-activity-7364340448376623104-EYUV?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAAKCcQBCYB0tibBGwT4TQv4xIfZSJGdWiEOn the recruiting side, most of my career has been in the tech industry, but I have been the founding/sole recruiter at multiple companies, meaning I have hired corporate roles across the board. I have also hired in manufacturing, warehouse/technicians, retail, customer service, physical security, administrative support. I'm an expert sourcer and well versed in managing complex offers with equity, sign on bonuses and relocation. I've "busted" my fair share of interview fraudulent attempts.I have used AI for composing candidate outreach, deep sourcing, CI research, and to streamline job postings. I have used AI to write and "record" a podcast jingle. I've used genAI to research potential candidate sources/pools/trends.Apparently I am an ATS guru based on conversations with my industry peers. I could walk into almost any recruiting role and be up and running in the ATS in a couple of hours. WorkDay, Taleo, Lever, Jobvite, SmartRecruiter, Taleo SMB, ZohoRecruit, Greenhouse, Ashby. I have implemented several of those.If you are looking for resume/LI feedback, I am happy to provide my rates.

Kristen Fife (she/her)

Job seekers, for the LOVE of Little Pink Ponies 🎠  (at the club or anywhere else!) when you come across a job you are interested in - APPLY. With whatever resume you have that is closest. You can update your resume and change it for a "tailored" version later. 
Stop listening to dimfluencers telling you to rewrite your resume to match the job description. As long as you ARE qualified for the role and your resume speaks to it, you should apply. 

Timing is oh-so-critical in these tough times. The weekend you spend "tailoring" your resume may cost you the job. Yes, networking is important, but hiring managers are going to tell you to apply or send you the recruiter who is going to tell you..."please apply". Unless you have a BONA FIDE connection - someone who actually *knows your work* for a true referral, conduct your networking/outreach AFTER you have put your hat in the ring, or by the time you get around to it, the role will be gone. 
https://lnkd.in/gngMmsTX

Kristen Fife 

Senior Tech Recruiter | Career Coach | Author | ATS SME | Purple Squirrel Hunter

Job seekers, I think we need a serious conversation about the meaning and process of "tailoring" your resume. Personally, I would prefer to see the wo

Open article: "Tweak" Instead of "Tailor" Your Resume by Kristen Fife • 2 min read

I want to use my friend Amy Miller 's excellent post today to reiterate why titles are less important than actual skills/output. 

As a tech recruiter, I have hired a LOT of "flavors" of software writing roles. There are a TON of titles, and there may be nuances amongst them based on skills, seniority, actual responsibility, etc. For example:
software developer
software engineer 
software development engineer
full stack developer 
fullstack engineer
programmer analyst (*this one specifically refers to a visa category)

Some places I have worked "engineer" denotes a degree, others it doesn't. 

My point is: titles are often interchageable, which is why recruiting professionals concentrate on FUNCTIONAL SKILLS, which then need to be supported with CONTEXT around process, scope, and deliverables.

Recruiting Manager - I build the teams that build the satellites. Recruiting Truth Teller & Mythbuster. Somehow, LinkedIn Top Voice 2022

Spicy Saturday.

Let's see who's feelings get hurt the most 😅

If you're good you're good. I could call myself a twice baked potato and still recruit circles around some of y'all.

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