
Unlock your career potential with personalized coaching for job seekers and leaders in Oakland.
Higher Gear Coaching provides expert career counseling and leadership coaching in Oakland, CA, helping clients navigate job searches, refine resumes, enhance interview skills, and align careers with personal values. Led by Curt, the service offers a holistic, structured approach that boosts confidence and uncovers new opportunities, making career transitions feel like a discovery process rather than a grind. With a 5-star rating from 46 reviews, we specialize in empowering professionals to achieve their goals and find purpose.
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Personalized guidance to identify career paths, set goals, and navigate job searches with tailored strategies.
Comprehensive updates to resumes and LinkedIn profiles to enhance visibility and attract interview opportunities.
Tools and techniques to build confidence, improve communication, and excel in job interviews.
Coaching for professionals to enhance leadership abilities, align values, and advance in their careers.
Support in integrating personal purpose and values with career choices for long-term fulfillment.
Working with Higher Gear Coaching was a serious game-changer for me. Curt is the kind of person who makes you feel like your success matters to him. Every session felt easy to step into, and the way he guided the process made it feel like I was uncovering things piece by piece, never forced or overwhelming. Instead of just handing me generic advice, Curt helped me open up new career paths I never would have spotted on my own. He kept things focused and realistic while still showing me possibilities I hadn’t considered. The changes we made to my resume and LinkedIn weren’t small tweaks. They completely shifted how I was being seen. Within a week or two of final updates, I had half a dozen interviews lined up. It was astonishing! What has stuck with me most, though, was how much more confident I felt heading into interviews. Curt gave me tools that clicked, and that sense of ease is something I’ll carry forward long after coaching. If you’re looking for someone who makes the whole career search feel less like a grind and more like a discovery process, Curt’s your guy.
Highly recommend working with Curt! He helped me figure out what my needs and wants are when it comes to my career path and life. If you're in a career rut and need some direction, Curt can help guide you to finding your path forward. His help goes beyond just career searching, he helps you figure out your true purpose, your values, and how to align your life and career to that. Really glad to have him in my corner moving forward.
Curt is a great leader, mentor, and coach. He was able to help me get unstuck with my career goals and passion after I was laid off from work last year. Thanks to his guidance, structured coaching techniques, and open mindset, I landed a new Product Manager role and with a regenerated purpose.
Curt provided thoughtful information, discussions and insights as I navigated career development after 20 years of work experience. In addition, Curt identified opportunity to increase my positivity intelligence, mental exercises to ensure I was not unfairly judging myself, others throughout my journey. If you are looking for an holistic coach who can challenge you as you reflect upon your professional and personal experiences, I highly recommend and endorse Curt. I look forward to leveraging his services this Fall when I start my new job (I will definitely introduce his services to my team members).
Curt quickly identifies areas for improvement in his client’s approach to finding new job opportunities. My interaction with him helped me refine my resume, interview skills, social media tactics, and highlighted strengths in ways I could not have done on my own. Equally as important, he helped me realize when opportunities were not a good fit so that I’ve avoided wasting time in my career. If you are looking to improve the outcome of your job search, I recommend Curt as a coach.
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