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Career Consultation: Get expert advice on how to plan your career and secure your perfect job
Are you ready to make your next career move? Have you been on a career break and now ready to return to the workforce with no idea where to start? Perhaps you are looking for a career change or new challenge. Or maybe you are seeing colleagues fast-track their careers and you want to accelerate your career too.
Insightful Works offers a career consultation service that supports you to look objectively at your career so you can make realistic decisions to ensure you make your career aspirations a reality.
A career consultation with Insightful Works starts by helping you to assess your career capital so you can clearly articulate what you have to offer to prospective employers. We will help you to explore and identify your options to build a career action plan.
A key element of our career consultation service is sharing knowledge of the recruitment process and addressing common career challenges such as:
- Building a CV that best reflects and matches your experience to the roles you are applying for
- Support in developing confidence to articulate succinctly what you are bringing to employers and what makes you stand out as a candidate.
- Developing your interview skills
We tailor our approach to your needs, ensuring our career consultation helps to to move forward from your career challenges such as:
- Finding a role with more responsibility, better salary or opportunity for development
- Moving on from a job that you are no longer enjoy
- Feeling stuck and not knowing what steps to take to progress in your career
- Finding a role that offers different ways of working.
- Seeking jobs that offer a better work-life balance.
Our career consultation service is delivered online (face to face can be arranged where geographically feasible). We help with career analysis, option appraisal, and career planning as well as providing support on all aspects of job searching including CV development, interview preparation, and networking.
About Me
Angela Smiddy
I’m Angela Smiddy, the founder of Insightful Works Coaching Solutions. An experienced coach and facilitator, I specialise in supporting career advancement for women, empowering my clients to realise their career development and leadership potential, maximise their profile and open themselves up to career opportunities.
I bring an empathic, calm and client-centred coaching style to my work and I particularly like to work with clients to develop new perspectives.
My primary education is in Human Resource Management, I am a qualified MBTI practitioner and I hold a Masters in Personal and Management Coaching from UCC.
- Masters in Personal and Management Coaching
- Advanced Diploma in Business and Executive Coaching
- Diploma in Human Resource Management
- Registered Test User with British Psychological Society
- MBTI Qualified Assessor
Our Services
Interview Coaching
It is essential to polish your interview skills, especially if you want to land your dream job.
Career Coaching
Advancing your career doesn’t have to be a solo experience.
Leadership Coaching
Enhance your leadership impact and performance
Our Reviews
I was at a crossroads in terms of my future career options. I had spent almost 20 years in the same role and knew I needed a new direction. Angela was recommended by a colleague and I was slightly apprehensive as I had never had coaching before. I found her so easy to talk to and her approach of letting me take the lead, yet asking me the right questions to help me develop a career plan really worked for me. Her career coaching sessions coupled with her interview coaching helped me to find and secure a role that I would never have dreamed of in the past.
I recently interviewed for a Senior Leadership Role at the HSE. I was overwhelmed with the extent of preparation required for this Interview. I was blown away by Angela’s Interview Coaching. Her knowledge of the HSE policies and the interview process as well as her practical, step by step approach to preparing for the role helped me to strategically and methodically prepare for interview. It was obvious she gave a lot of time and consideration to the role I was applying for and how I could articulate my experience to stand out as a candidate. I was delighted to succeed at interview and would 100% recommend Angela to anyone who is about to apply for interview, it is a solid investment in your future career.
I was ignoring promotional opportunities as I had a lot of family responsibilities and wasn’t sure I could put my career first and felt advancing in the organisation may not suit my family circumstances. Through my coaching sessions with Angela I realised that going for promotion did not necessarily mean less family time and I had never really challenged my beliefs about this. I also realised through coaching that I needed to network more, requested mentoring and developed the confidence to apply for a number of roles before identifying and securing a promotional role that brings career stretch opportunities for me as well as fitting in with my family situation
I initially worked with Angela a number of years ago to develop my interviewing skills, I came to coaching lacking confidence in my abilities and had a huge hang up about interviews. Angela helped me to manage my interview anxiety and focus on my strengths and I was delighted to finally be successful at interview. I returned to Career coaching with Angela this year as I was deeply unhappy with my role at work following a re-structuring program. Angela helped me to assess my options and through our sessions together I have made a career change that has positively impacted my career prospects as well ensuring I am honoring my work life balance goals.