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Military Transition - Transferable Skills Inventory

A helpful tool for "translating" your military skills to civilian skills that can be showcased on your resume or in interviews. Could be used outside the military as well.

From Overwhelmed to In Control: Your Job Search Game Plan

Job searching today can feel overwhelming, whether you’re just starting to explore, actively applying, or navigating an unexpected transition. With endless advice, conflicting strategies, and pressure to move quickly, many professionals find themselves stuck in reactive mode, unsure where to focus or how to build momentum. As we kick off Job Search Week, Amy will walk you through her practical Dream. Plan. Do. Live. framework, a step by step approach shaped by her experience as a hiring manager and senior leader in tech, and refined through what has consistently helped her clients land roles and advance in this market. You’ll leave with a simple, practical game plan that brings clarity, structure, and intention to an otherwise overwhelming job search process.

Military Transition - Translating Your Military Experience

This is a guide to help you translate your military experience (stories) into ones that will land in the civilian world.

Recruiter-Approved Networking Templates

This blueprint provides a data-driven outreach framework designed to move you away from "charity-based" networking toward a high-impact "curiosity" model. Based on five years of recruiting experience and current analyst insights at JPMC, this guide reveals why technical and strategic queries are 4x more likely to get a response than a referral request. What’s Included: - The "Strategic Peer" Template: High-conversion scripts for reaching out to potential teammates. - The "Recruiter-First" Reach Out: Strategies for engaging with sourcers after a role has been posted to ensure your profile is seen. - The Follow-Up "Multiplier": Techniques for providing "Value Adds" to keep a professional conversation alive. - The "Andrew Cause" Checklist: Essential rules for mobile-optimized, data-backed messaging that bypasses spam filters.

Do’s and Don’ts of AI in Recruiting

AI is rapidly reshaping how companies source, screen, and hire talent—but using it effectively requires knowing where it helps and where it can hurt. In this session, you’ll learn the key do’s and don’ts of using AI in recruiting, including where it adds real efficiency and how recruiters and candidates are expected to use it responsibly. Whether you’re a recruiter, hiring manager, or candidate navigating AI-driven hiring processes, you’ll leave with clear guidelines to use AI thoughtfully, ethically, and credibly.

Job Search Week Kickoff: Hiring Manager Round Table

Job Search Week is here—and this kickoff session sets the tone for a focused, intentional approach to finding your next role. Join us for an opening event designed to help you start your search with clarity and momentum. In this session, we’ll outline how to approach the job search strategically, share key principles for staying organized and motivated, and highlight what to focus on in today’s market. Whether you’re just starting or resetting your search, this kickoff will help you move forward with purpose.

The Interview Narrative Toolkit

Interviews aren't a memory test. They're a communication test. The Interview Narrative Toolkit gives you a repeatable method for answering behavioral questions in a way that's specific, credible, and actually interesting to listen to. It's built around the CARL framework — not because frameworks are magic, but because most people ramble without one. What's inside: You'll learn how to isolate your actual contribution from the team's work, which is the thing most candidates blur and most interviewers notice. You'll get a breakdown of the phrases that feel safe but quietly tank your signal — the "we wore many hats" answers, the "great learning experience" deflections — and what to say instead interview-narra...it (1).pdf . And you'll walk away with a method you can apply to any story, not just the ones you prepped. The goal isn't a perfect answer. It's a demo-able one. Concrete. Under two minutes. Yours. One story rewritten using this method is enough to see the difference. Most people find they've been underselling themselves for years — not because their work wasn't good, but because they never learned how to make it visible.

The Internal Pivot Playbook

How to move into a new role, function, or business unit without leaving your company: the full arc most professionals navigate alone and without a roadmap. This guide covers how to diagnose whether an internal pivot is the right move, how to position yourself before anyone knows you’re interested, how to have the conversation with your manager, how to navigate the three most common responses, what to negotiate (and how), and how to land well in the new role without the overconfidence trap.

Home for Ambition #2 — Weekly Live Show [3/25/2026] (Recording)

Home for Ambition is a weekly live show, by Leland, for people trying to stay ahead as work, learning, and opportunity keep changing. Each episode tackles a handful of timely, high-signal topics across AI, careers, education, and the future of work. We expect thoughtful debate, unique perspectives, and practical takeaways you can actually use. It is not a typical interview show or a generic news recap. It is a live roundtable built to help ambitious people make sense of what is changing, understand what matters, and leave with a sharper point of view on how to navigate what comes next.

Starting Strong Without Burning Out: Thriving in Your New Role

Starting a new role can feel exciting and overwhelming at the same time. This session explores how to build momentum, navigate expectations, and establish a strong foundation for long-term success, without falling into patterns that lead to burnout. Audience Fit: • Professionals starting new roles, or plan to start a new role in the future • Early career talent, lateral hires, and leaders transitioning into new positions

Managing Up: A Field Guide

Managing up isn’t about flattering your boss — it’s about owning the relationship with the person who has the most influence over your career. This guide covers how to diagnose your manager’s style, what to ask them early in any new relationship, the most common managing up mistakes and how to fix them, and how to navigate specific situations when the relationship is strained.

How To Have the Promotion Conversation

Most promotion conversations fail not because the person wasn't ready -- but because they handled it wrong. This guide covers when to have the conversation, what to say, how to handle pushback, and what to do after. Includes sample language and a follow up email template.

New People Manager: First 90-Day Checklist

A phase-by-phase checklist for your first 90 days as a people manager: diagnose before you prescribe, provide clarity on direction, then raise the bar on performance, Includes the five most common new manager traps and a clear definition of what good looks like at 90 days.

How to Give Feedback That Actually Changes Behavior

Most managers give feedback. Few give feedback that sticks. This guide breaks down the four reasons feedback fails, then gives you a repeatable four-part framework — Situation, Behavior, Impact, Next Step — with side-by-side examples showing ineffective vs. effective delivery. Includes a section on handling the most common reactions: defensiveness, denial, and empty agreement.

Resume Best Practices: Tips to Take Your CV From Meh to Magnifico!

After 15+ years of reviewing more applicant resumes than I care to count as a recruiter/hiring manager/talent leader at McKinsey and Bain, these are the core tips I coach my clients to always consider when crafting their CV.

The Year-End Review Playbook

Most professionals approach the year-end review passively and leave the outcome to chance. This guide covers the full process high performers use: building a documented case throughout the year, writing a self-assessment for the calibration room (not just your manager’s inbox), preparing your manager to advocate for you in the room you’re not in, and using the review conversation to set the terms for next year. Includes before/after self-assessment examples and exact language for the conversations most people avoid.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Sample Resume Bullet Points

This guide includes a set of résumé bullet points designed to showcase a wide range of skills and industries. Each bullet uses a strong action verb and highlights a quantifiable outcome.

Sample Resume Action Verbs

Using strong, impactful verbs is essential to crafting compelling bullet points on your MBA résumé. This guide includes a categorized list of powerful verbs to clearly showcase your skills and accomplishments.

Five Real Cases: Americans Landing Jobs in Europe

I have been talking about working abroad in general terms. Now it is time to share the success. I have placed many clients in jobs across Europe, and I want to show you exactly how this works. In this session, I will present five real cases: the application strategies we used, the interview processes they went through, the offers they received, and how we handled work permits, visas, and relocation. These are not hypothetical scenarios. These are actual people who now work in Europe. I am very proud of these clients. Their success contributed to my winning the 2026 Top Coach Award in the Career and Leadership section on Leland. Each case demonstrates something different: different industries, different countries, different career stages. You will see what worked, what did not work, and what made the difference between an application that went nowhere and an offer that changed someone's life.

Consulting Career Path Options for Experienced Professionals

Are you a professional (with or without an MBA) who is curious about a career in consulting and whether it's a viable option? Check out this resource to learn the answer to that question and more.