Transition & Job Search Services
Our job search process increases success rates & enables you to outperform other job seekers Resume & Cover Letter Writing Online Profile Preparation Job Search Training Job Interview Training Monitoring & Tracking By making each part of the job search process as effective as possible, we increase the success rate and enable you to outperform other job seekers. We guide you all the way, and our results based approach helps you to: Substantially improve your resume and receive more interview calls. Practice techniques to convert more interviews into job offers. Understand best ways to deal with job boards, recruiters and so on. Learn how to network and use other proactive job search methods. Create & manage an online profile, so that recruiters can find you. Master best-practices for other job hunt areas, like pay negotiation.
We start with resume and cover letter writing, to ensure an impactful first impression Resume & Cover Letter Writing Online Profile Preparation Job Search Training Job InterviewTraining Monitoring & Tracking Step 1: Discussion to understand your background, situation and goals in detail. Step 2: You receive our detailed resume preparation book & workbooks. Step 3: You complete the workbooks as per instructions/manuals. Step 4: Job search specialist provides feedback on the workbook content. Step 5: You revise the workbook & receive another 1-2 rounds of feedback Step 6: Job search specialist prepares the first draft of your resume. Step 7: Discussion with job search specialist about the first draft. Step 8: Preparation of final resume. Step 9: A cover letter is also prepared to support the resume.
The next step is creation/preparation of online and social networking profiles Resume & Cover Letter Writing Online Profile Preparation Job Search Training Job Interview Training Social media is very useful during the job search process and keeping this in mind, we will also help you prepare a profile on LinkedIn and other relevant networks. This will be used extensively for online networking, in order to generate job leads and to access hiring managers directly. Monitoring & Tracking
That is followed by job search training, to help you generate enough job leads Resume & Cover Letter Writing Online Profile Preparation Job Search Training Job Interview Training Monitoring & Tracking You will then go through comprehensive training to learn the most successful ways to deal with job boards, recruitment agencies, online/physical networking, newspapers advertisements and other job sources. Depending on your background and job targets, we will then decide on a job search strategy for you, with details on how much time you should spend on different job sources. Additionally, we will prepare a plan for specific/exact job search activities you will engage in everyday. We will discuss and take you through the entire approach. This ensures that you direct your job search efforts towards the most productive activities. After the training, you will have a weekly session with your job search specialist, to discuss progress, roadblocks, changes needed and to make sure you re on the right track.
After our video-based training, you will be more than ready for any interview Resume & Cover Letter Writing Online Profile Preparation Job Search Training Job Interview Training Monitoring & Tracking Step 1: You receive our comprehensive interviewing book & workbooks. Step 2: You complete our 'Career Achievements' workbook, which draws out your key strengths and accomplishments in detail. Step 3: Job search specialist provides feedback/guidance on the workbook content and you makes changes accordingly. Step 4: You move on to our 'Interview Questions' workbook, in which your accomplishments are used to draft word-for-word responses to expected interview questions, specific to your job target(s). Step 5: Job search specialist works with you to dramatically improve and finalise your interview responses. Step 6: Practice interview with outplacement specialist, along with video recorded feedback.
We will support you until you find a suitable job Resume & Cover Letter Writing Online Profile Preparation Job Search Training Job Interview Training Monitoring & Tracking Once all the previous steps have been completed, for a period of 2 months, we will track your progress on a weekly basis and provide advice on how to change the approach, if necessary. We will also help you with guidance for ongoing needs, such as tips for upcoming interviews and dealing with various job search situations. This support ensures that you ingrain all the best practices for a good job search and that you execute a quick/effective search. Due to the number of variables involved it is hard to make any guarantees, however, most of our participants find a job of their liking within 2-5 months.
Job search components can be taken individually or as a complete program Service Fee (SGD) W e e k 1 Resume Writing Custom pricing between 250 and 650 Cover Letter Writing 99 LinkedIn Profile Preparation 199 Job Search Training 295 Week 2 Weeks 2 to 10 Job Interview Training 350 Monitoring & Tracking 250 Total Custom pricing between 1,443 & 1,843 If all the job search services are taken, the total price is discounted at SGD 1,300.
A bit of background on our organisation... Sandbox Advisors is based in Singapore and proud to be the pioneer of comprehensive Career and HR Advisory. We have an outstanding and experienced team of consultants and associates, who provide you with a refreshing perspective and personalised service. As our client, you can be certain of receiving: The highest level of expertise and knowledge. An approach which is based on the best academic research, coupled with our own experience. Zero fluff and birds-eye-view advisory/services. We prefer a detailed worms-eye-view. Practical, realistic and insightful solutions, which actually work. We have delivered projects projects for clients in China, India, Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Vietnam and Myanmar.
Our expertise has been recognised and featured in the media on numerous occasions
We have worked with clients (both teams and individuals) from a wide variety of firms
We have an outstanding and experienced team of consultants and associates Our entire team has: Advanced educational qualifications from prestigious universities in Europe, USA and Asia Extensive work experience, in diverse functions, industries, companies and locations Our Senior Consultants are fully involved in our services/projects and are supported by a team of Associates
Amit Puri: Managing Consultant Amit has extensive business and career management related experience, in Asia and Europe, including organisational/strategy consulting with Bain and Company. In this role he helped organisations improve their effectiveness in areas such as company culture, recruitment and selection, talent deployment, overall strategy and operational improvements. Amit has also worked for Morgan Stanley and Citigroup, in equity research, investment banking, equity capital markets, commercial banking and wealth management. His educational qualifications are equally diverse. Amit has pursued an MSc./PG Dip. in Organisational Psychology and Career Counselling, with the University of London. He has the highest level of practical training in Occupational Psychometric Testing, with the British Psychological Society. He has trained with the Career Coach Institute (USA) and Results Coaching Systems (Singapore/Australia). Amit also holds an MBA from INSEAD (France) and a Masters in Financial Management, from the International Management Institute (India).
Nigel Nolan: Senior Consultant Nigel has more than 25 years general management experience in both the private and public sectors in Europe. He has managed Operational Service Units and Training & Development Units in the Irish health services. Nigel has vast experience in training needs analysis, and in the design, delivery and evaluation of training and training materials. He has trained, facilitated and led strategy development processes, organisational development initiatives and organisational performance management improvements. He is an experienced trainer, facilitator and presenter. Nigel was an associate lecturer with the UK s Open University Business School for 13 years on their Professional Diploma in Management / MBA course, and an associate lecturer in health services management with Dublin Institute of Technology. In addition to an educational background in philosophy, psychology, theology and communications, Nigel studied on a scholarship secondment in the School of Public Administration (formally a part of the Institute of Public Administration, Dublin). He has a PGDM and an MBA from the UK s Open University Business School; an M.A. in Adult & Community Education from the National University of Ireland. He is a Fellow of the Irish Institute of Training & Development (FIITD), a Member of the Chartered Management Institute (MCMI) and a Member of the Singapore Institute of Management (MSIM). Nigel is also a Certified Trainer and Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and a Certified Coach.
Shan Gao: Consultant Shan has strong experience in the field of career development, both in the United States and in China. Her specialties include individual/group career coaching, career assessment, training and program evaluation. She has worked as a career advisor with the University of Minnesota and Macalester College in the United States and also with Southwest University in China. Prior to that, Shan was a Human Resources specialist, in-charge of staff training programs, at TradeEasy.com. Shan graduated with BA degree in Education at Southwest University in China and acquired the Teach Certificate accredited by the Ministry of Education upon graduation. She received her Master s degree in counseling at University of Minnesota (USA) with a concentration in career development. Shan s other experiences include blogging, teaching at middle school and counseling at Sober House. Drawn to multicultural and social justice issues, she also worked with the University of Minnesota Office of Equity and Diversity, for programming and counseling.
Alka Chandiramani: Senior Associate Alka is a multi-lingual and experienced human resources (HR) practitioner with over 18 years of HR and legal experience. Her extensive experience in the HR arena includes a full spectrum of HR functions including regional roles and execution of Global HR programs/initiatives. She has facilitated over 200 career coaching, HR and job search related workshops at CRCE, high schools and universities in Singapore and Hong Kong. Prior to that she worked with MNCs, legal firms and schools throughout Hong Kong. Alka received a Master of Arts in Human Resource Management from the Macquarie University in Australia, a Diploma in Law from The University of Hong Kong in conjunction with the Institute of Legal Executives (U.K.) and a Diploma in Education Studies and Child Psychology from the Linguistic Council in Singapore. She is a Certified Human Resource Professional, Certified Professional Resume Writer, Certified Employment Interview Professional, Certified Behavioural/Career Consultant. She also pursued a Professional Certificate in Coaching (PCC) with Results Coaching Systems (NeuroLeadership Group) and Certification in Career Coaching with PARW/CC.
Janani Narayanan: Senior Consultant Janani has worked in the area of Human Resources, with Infosys Technologies Limited (a global provider of technology enabled business solutions with over $5 billion in revenues) and subsequently as an Independent Consultant. During her time with Infosys, Janani was part of the Talent Acquisition team and handled all aspects of the Recruitment Lifecycle. She was also a founding member of the HR Internal Communications team, where she planned, designed and rolled-out organisation wide communication interventions. She has won several accolades for her role in Talent Acquisition and Internal Communication. As an Independent Consultant, Janani worked closely with and assisted Ms. Hema Ravichandar, one of the leading thinkers in Human Resources in India/Asia. Her engagements primarily involved mapping existing HR processes in organisations and recommending improvements for each process, to help organisations outperform. Janani graduated with a Bachelor s in Business Management, followed by Post Graduation in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from the reputed Tata Institute of Social Sciences.
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