"Getting you from here to where you want to be"
About Kathy
Kathy Lindblom is a Career Counselor and Consultant with extensive experience in a wide variety of industries including education, high-tech, and non-profit. Her own career background includes sales, staffing, project management, counseling, coaching, training, and corporate career development.
Kathy's private practice offers one-on-one counseling and coaching, as well as workshop facilitation. In addition to her practice, she is also an adjunct consultant for a career and organizational consulting firm and an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University. While Kathy's knowledge and experience has proven to be beneficial to a wide range of clients, she most enjoys working with women in transition.
Kathy holds both a B.S. in Psychology and an M.A. in Counseling with an Emphasis in Career Development from Santa Clara University.
Kathy serves the South Bay of the Northern California region and her office is conveniently located in Campbell near Hwy 85 and Hwy 17.
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Coaching Philosophy
People seek career counseling for a variety of reasons. They may have an important career decision to make, a desire for more meaning in their work life, or are trying to understand what is impeding them from finding success and satisfaction in their career. Others are looking for ways to improve their job search strategies and develop effective resumes and interview skills. Yet others may be satisfied in their current career, but are looking for ways to continually improve and advance or to find balance in their lives. Career counseling is one avenue towards exploring these issues, clarifying career goals, developing plans and taking action towards change.
Kathy Lindblom is able to help you both understand what you want from your career and explain how to get on the road to achieving it. In essence, getting you from where you are to where you want to be.
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Focus
Assessment and Self-Discovery
For many, self-assessment and discovery is the first step in the process. Kathy takes the time with each individual to ensure clarity around personality type, interests, skills, and values. This is accomplished through a variety of formal assessment tools, as well as informal creative methods. By ensuring clarity around yourself, you can narrow down the career search for the career path that best fits who you are.
Exploration and Decision-Making
In the Exploration stage, Kathy helps guide you in your exploration and research of your career options, as well as in the decision-making of your career path. She is able to provide online, print, and live resources to help you investigate careers. She also offers support and counseling in your career decision-making.
Job Search
People often need assistance in the job search stage, as the market is tough. It's important that you have an edge or something that helps you stand out in this economy. Kathy provides expert knowledge in successful job search strategies, effective resume formatting and writing, helpful interviewing skills and techniques, and lucrative compensation negotiation strategies.
On-Going Career Development
Once you've landed your dream job, it doesn't stop there. You need to stay on top of your career, striving for your full potential, ensuring that you are happy and fulfilled beyond your transition. Kathy works with individuals on an on-going basis to help them grow in fulfilling and happy careers while keeping up with the ever-changing world we live in.
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Coaching Services
Each person's process is unique to his or her needs and wants.
Kathy begins each client with an intake and initial assessment to determine where the client is in the career development process, as well as determine career counseling goals and objectives. Together, they create a plan of approach to this individual journey.
Some of Kathy's key services are helping clients with:
- Choosing a career
- Planning for career change and/or advancement strategies
- Marketable/transferable skills analysis and development
- Labor Market research including forecasts and trends
- Assessment of career values, interests, skills and preferences
- Improving job search skills and strategies, including:
- Resume and interview preparation
- Compensation negotiation
- Networking
- Managing career transitions, including layoffs, downsizing and re-entry
- Life/Work balance; dual career family issues
Kathy also utilizes her counseling skills to help you break down barriers and confront the inner voices that often get in the way of career fulfillment.
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Testimonials
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