“Our outplacement, coaching and counseling helps attorneys navigate towards the
pathway of personal fulfillment…while simultaneously making the right choices amid a multitude of opportunities.”
Outplacement and Career Coaching includes:
- Career goal assessment
- Strategic résumé and cover letter writing
- Development of personalized marketing and networking plan
- Interview preparation and performance
- Job market evaluation and assessment
- Transitioning of legal expertise or specialty
- Support and guidance in overcoming obstacles
- Market salary and compensation negotiation
We exist in a dynamic age, and the legal profession is not immune to the personal upheaval and challenges created by job changes. Many attorneys are facing job searches for the first time in their career due to the vast layoffs from both law firms and corporations. Other attorneys may be looking to end the relentless pressure of increasing billable hours, and transition instead into a stable, corporate in-house environment. Some attorneys are currently in one specialty, but may be interested in moving to a different area of practice. And others could simply be trying to strike a better balance between career and family.
With the Internet, it’s easy to get lost in the shuffle of e-mailed résumés and unreturned voicemail
messages. Over nearly two decades, Kerwin Associates has built relationships with industry leaders and candidates, which has enabled us to assist with successful transitions and simplify the intricacies of the legal marketplace. We are utilizing this knowledge, offering outplacement career coaching and counseling services for attorneys in Silicon Valley and the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
You may well understand the critical elements of the situations you face, but you still can benefit from the experience and sense of perspective we bring to the discovery process. Anne Kerwin Payne has coached and counseled thousands of attorney candidates on career goals, job moves, and a wide range of topics.
Through every step of the job transitioning process, Anne provides expert guidance and advice to ensure your résumé, networking skills, interviewing style, and negotiation of strategy and compensation are developed and honed to ensure maximum success. In addition she has thorough knowledge of the legal marketplace from department structures to interview styles. Kerwin Associates’ personal, highly specific outplacement coaching and counseling can also provide the motivation and confidence you need to break through any barriers that may be holding you back.
Let Kerwin Associates help empower you to find clarity, focus and direction in your legal career, and the confidence and power you need to succeed. The fee for this service is individual paid or employer paid. Depending on the circumstances, the candidate may chose to have sessions over time or a single consultation.
OUTPLACEMENT TESTIMONIALS
“My outplacement work with Anne was immensely helpful. Her one-on-one consultation time with me was integral in helping me move forward with my search process. The Personalized Marketing Plan acted as an itemized check list that made me feel that I was getting things done. Anne took the time to understand the depths of my personality and experience and apply them to opportunities I hadn’t yet thought of.”
In-House Counsel
“I was really stuck as to how to best present myself through my resume. Anne spent hours of time with me to get the end result – a presentable professional document that I felt represented me on every level.”
Sole Practitioner
”Being laid off from my legal position was something I never thought would happen to me. The coaching and outplacement time spent with Anne was well spent. I was able to get started on focusing on the future and stopped dwelling on what had happened. We came up with a plan and discussed where my background would be most useful. Anne gave me career, network and resume ideas. Our time together was quite valuable.”
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