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Raise the Roof

Four Steps Before Our First Session

Discovering Your Job Search Focus is our Resource Guide of assessments and tools to help you prepare for our first coaching session together.

Therefore, think of it as my toolbox for helping you figure out who you are and what you want.

Step 1: Personality and Work Values Assessment

Create a free account on this website: CrystalKnows. This can help you learn more about your underlying work needs and motivations, and can help you decide what is important to you in a job.

Please complete each free assessment:
1. DiSC
2. 16 Personalities (MBTI)
3. Enneagram
4. Big Five
5. Strengths (StrengthsFinder)
6. Work Values
7. Work Behavior

Each assessment will be referred to during our first session, and you'll need to add them to your Personal Preferences Roadmap.

Step 2: What Color is My Parachute?

Order the latest workbook version of “What Color is My Parachute?“ and complete the Flower Exercise to share during our first coaching session.

“The most successful job-hunting begins with your doing research on yourself (using “the Flower Exercise”—which results in successful job-hunting 84% of the time—rather than beginning with research on the job market (what are the jobs in demand, the “hot” jobs, etc.), which results in finding a job only 4% to 28% of the time, at best.” – Richard Bolles (pg. 22)

Step 3: Pivot: Is It Time For a Change?

Order your copy of our brief book on Career Transition, Pivot: Is It Time For a Change?

Many of us know what we DON’T want next, but do we know what we DO WANT?

Neil and Robyn wrote a book on the subject of making job changes, sometimes rapidly and sweeping; other times small and slow.

Step 4: CareerFitter

THE best career assessment test that can change your life! After a simple quiz to determine your personality style, turn to the corresponding chapter that reads as if it was written just for you and discover what ideal work options there are for you.

There are TWO versions of this tool:
1. FREE version (3-4 pages results)
2. PREMIUM $19.95 (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED) version that contains 20 pages of helpful and informative data to help guide you in your career path.

Save report in a pdf and email to neil@neilschultz.com for review prior to our first coaching session.

Your Executive Advisor and Strategist:

Neil Schultz

Career Upgrader exists to help senior leaders navigate complex career transitions with greater clarity, credibility, and strategic momentum.

Neil Schultz has spent years helping leaders think more clearly about how they are positioned, how they communicate their value, and how they move through high-stakes transitions with more confidence and precision.

Through Raise the Roof™, Career Upgrader helps Directors, Vice Presidents, and senior leaders:

  • clarify the right target

  • sharpen executive positioning

  • strengthen resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and leadership narratives

  • prepare for executive interviews and stakeholder conversations

  • evaluate opportunities more wisely

  • negotiate from a stronger position

This is not built for mass-market job seekers, but for experienced leaders who want a more strategic, higher-level approach to their next move.

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