Welcome

 

Welcome to the Absolute Transitions website.  When I founded my business, one of my major goals was to be of service to those facing “midlife transition issues.”  While that still is a significant focus of what I do through my writings, teaching and coaching, my focus has evolved in one area more so than any other in helping those I look to serve.  Career coaching and the strategies to build a solid career development and job search campaign approach has become the leading area in which my studies and efforts have taken me toward in the last several months.

While some of that change came via opportunity which came my way, it was obvious to me as I was meeting more and more people that I was looking to serve, whether in person or via my writings, that the number one issue they were facing centered on their economic future going forward.  An economy that had impacted their savings, searching for work after being employed for many years, a desire to keep working as a lifestyle choice and the frustration of going after employment and finding that the rules and approaches had changed so significantly were among the themes I was hearing over and over.  While I had tools and methodologies that I was proud of sharing that would help one with their emotions and attitudes, I still was searching for concrete approaches in helping those in need with these issues.

In March of 2011, I was introduced to the strategic career development and job search methodologies of the Five O’Clock Club, an outplacement service based in New York City.  While I was familiar with outplacement firms in my past, the Five O’Clock Club was different.  Instead of offering their clients office space and a computer to conduct their job search, the Five O’Clock Club offered them career coaching.  They also offered methods on every step of the job search process that they had tracked as being successful or not so successful for their clients for over 25 years.  While very disciplined in their process, their success ratio was phenomenal.  Their clients were receiving multiple job offers after 10 to 12 group coaching sessions at the Club.  Even in 2010, in a very bad job market, those regularly attending their group coaching sessions and following their program were receiving offers and finding jobs in 50% of the time of all other job hunters.

I knew being a member of the Five O’Clock Club Guild of Coaches was something of which I wanted to be part.  I pursued my certification, and on August 1, 2011, became fully certified as one of their career coaches.  During the course of the year, I have shared and will continue to share many of their methods with those who come to this site via my weekly blog and my monthly newsletter.  For those who choose and look to work with me in person, all coaching and strategies I offer from a career perspective come entirely from what I have learned through Five O’Clock Club methodology.

While I have learned a great deal which is new, I also am still well versed in some of the best life coaching tools in the industry.  The Energy Leadership program developed by the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching and for which Absolute Transitions is a “preferred partner”, has assisted numerous clients in shifting their energy to more positive levels in viewing and living their lives.  Even for many focused on job search, while the need of a strategy to conduct their search is paramount to their success, having a check on their emotions is equally as important.  I am a coaching partner who is able to expertly guide my clients on either life or career related issues which impact them with proven processes and concrete methodologies.

As always, Absolute Transitions is a coaching practice that above all is there to listen to their clients’ needs. I continue to look to educate myself in the coaching profession and am committed to sharing what I learn with my clients and those who come to these pages to learn from the ideas presented.  I encourage all of you to reach out to my e-mail of tony@absolutetransitions.com with your thoughts, suggestions and questions so as to allow me to share with you in person, in addition to virtually.  Most of all, even though I learn a great deal from the materials that I study, one of my greatest sources of learning is from communicating directly with those that I serve.  That is why communication with you is so important to me, and is something to which I look forward.

Thank you for visiting the Absolute Transitions website and please come back often.

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