Career Counseling Services

“Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?”

Joseph Campbell

“Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Career Counseling
At Success Associates career counseling is a collaborative process that helps you clarify your purpose, understand your special strengths, and develop challenging yet attainable career goals. We believe it is possible to move from work that is just OK, to work that fits who you are, building on your skills, interests and talents. Today income, security and achievement all flow to those who find work they love. We can help you attain that goal.

Career success also involves knowing how to job hunt in today’s competitive labor market of scanned resumes and stress interviews. We’ll help you take action to realize your goals by preparing you to market yourself. You’ll learn how to create a powerful resume, how to create a network of job contacts and how to impress employers when interviewing.

At Success Associates
We provide these career services to help you advance:

• A Career Assessment Package (see below)
• Assessment Tests measuring career interests, personality factors and skills
• Career Counseling and Coaching
• Private Outplacement Counseling
• Individualized Resume Development
• Career Management Workshops
• Job Search Success Teams
• Links to Metro-Boston’s oldest professional networking groups WIND North and South

Career Assessment Package
We have developed a special package of services at an affordable price that will help you to quickly identify a career goal right for you. It includes:

• expert career guidance over 4 sessions
• help developing a career goal that matches your talents to today’s job market
• an individualized interpretation of your Myers-Briggs Type Inventory
• the Strong or Campbell Interest Test identifying careers where you show interest and potential
• a Skills Assessment process helping you identify marketable work skills
• a workbook with exercises and readings to augment the counseling process
• a Career Action Plan to help you achieve your short and long term goals

The fee is just $350.00 – a investment in yourself you will benefit from throughout a lifetime! Payment plans are available.

Individual tests and interpretations: $97.00

Customized Resume Development
Resumes can open or shut doors of opportunity. If your resume isn’t getting the results you want we will help you create a resume with impact, one employers will respond to and understand. We can also help you prepare an “internet resume” that you can post on appropriate websites.

Fee: Three price ranges available depending upon your needs.

Private Outplacement Counseling
Many professionals receive funds for outplacement services from employers. We will create with you an individualized outplacement package to meet your needs for career reemployment services.

Fee: Outplacement packages are negotiated with employer and/or client.

Client Comments
“Meeting with you [Larry Elle] was great – a real help for me at an important time. You helped me see myself more accurately and with better perspective; to see myself not in terms of “strengths and weaknesses” but in terms of skills and opportunities, challenges for growth as well as abilities of value to others.” DK, Concord, MA

“Thank you for your help. I appreciate all of the information I gleaned from our sessions. You have given me new tools to work with. I have already benefited from them and I am sure I will in the future. I’m starting my new job, and armed with my new insights, I believe I can have a future with this organization.” V.L., Winthrop, MA

“I met with you for four sessions of career counseling. I want to tell you what a big impact that made on my life. Our meetings made me think, for the first time, about the things I actually want to do in my life. Also. I’ve always had this definition of myself and the things I like to do, but when I completed the different tests, I learned so much! The things I thought I liked, I really didn’t! And seeing, in black and white, the things I do like, and my strengths, was so helpful. It made me begin to see myself clearly, perhaps for the first time. Thanks for helping to steer me onto my right path. I am now...in an environment where I am “in my element”, instead of being a “square peg in a round hole”, which I’ve done for so long. It really never occurred to me that I could do things differently (meaning, do what I wanted) until I talked to you.” MM, Boston