Our Approach
Career Coaching for Those Who Need it Most
Our Approach:
We provide personalized, one-on-one career coaching – many hours over just 6 to 12 weeks – to help motivated workers move into a better-paying job.
We work with job candidates on the specific moves for actually getting a job: how to search, write a resume and cover letter, network to get interviews, prepare for and follow-up on interviews, negotiate an offer, and make a good impression during onboarding.
Our dedicated coaches work with our candidates every day through coaching, employer introductions, & career development.
The Problem:
There are many thousands of colleges, job training programs, and other nonprofits, which provide degrees, credentials, hard skills, and soft skills. Usually towards the end of any of these programs, a “Career Office” tries to help their graduates get a job.
But these Career Offices often struggle to help students actually land jobs. Why? Usually almost all the tuition dollars and government support has already been spent: career counselors will tell you that they are almost always funded with crumbs.
This results in two big problems. First, career counselors struggle to solve the “Who You Know” problem. They don’t typically have enough “connections” to meet the needs of their students. Second, typical career counselors don’t have the time to devote to high dosage (many hours) of personalized one-on-one career coaching, preparing an individual for each job opportunity. Instead, they offer “classes” – resume classes, networking classes, negotiating classes – that are simply too vague and generalized to achieve the goal of getting a job.
Career counselors agree one-on-one coaching is indeed the right solution, but their organization’s economic model usually takes almost all the revenue and uses it for other things.
The Solution:
So that’s what we do exclusively at 1Up – we provide the type of high-quality, one-on-one coaching needed to help people move from existing job to a better-paying job. And we do it with those who need it most.