Career Search and Advancement Series (All Four Workshops)

Career Search and Advancement Series:

ObPortum's Career Search and Advancement Series is a four-part live workshop program for professionals in transition and designed around the premise that a search succeeds on strategy and stamina together, not one at the expense of the other.

Across four two-hour Zoom sessions, participants sharpen the value proposition they lead with, rebuild a resume that clears AI screening and still earns a recruiter's call, learn a specific and repeatable networking method, and develop the emotional durability to stay steady through rejection and uncertainty. Every session is hands-on and ends with something participants can put to work immediately.

The series is led by James Coolidge, founder and president of ObPortum Inc., a Certified Executive Coach with over 35 years of executive leadership experience.

The Four Workshops:

01 · Leveraging Your Unique Value Proposition (Oct 7) Get clear, fast, on what you bring to the table and how to say it out loud. This session helps participants name their strengths in language that lands, so they show up in interviews, networking calls, and on paper with a message people remember. You'll leave with a value statement you can use immediately.

02 · A Resume That Survives AI and Attracts Recruiters (Oct 14) Most resumes lose to a screener before a human ever reads them. This session shows exactly what AI tools scan for, how to structure a resume so it clears that first pass, and how to write it so a recruiter still wants to call. Bring your current resume and walk out with concrete fixes, not vague advice.

03 · Building a Functional Network (Oct 21) Networking works when it's specific, not when it's a stack of business cards. This session provides a practical method for identifying the right people, starting real conversations, and turning those conversations into leads. No cold-pitch scripts. Just a repeatable way to build relationships that move a search forward.

04 · Getting Out of the Way of Yourself (Oct 28) A search takes as much emotional stamina as strategy. This session tackles the self-doubt, rejection fatigue, and uncertainty that quietly stall momentum, giving participants tools to regulate under pressure and show up as their steadiest selves from the first application through the final offer conversation.

Who it's for:

Professionals in active transition, leaders re-entering the market after a long tenure, and anyone whose search has stalled despite doing the obvious things. The series works as a full arc, and each session also stands on its own.

Dates and Investment:

Wednesdays, October 7, 14, 21 and 28, 2026 · 9–11 a.m. EST · *Zoom

*Zoom link and reminder sent the Monday prior to Workshop

$95 (+HST) per workshop or $295 (+HST) for the full series. Individual sessions are available; the four together are designed as an arc.