60 minutes · Online · One to one
Not sure what to do next in your career?
In one hour we'll clarify what you're actually looking for, identify the strengths you can carry forward, explore two or three realistic directions, and write down your next steps. You'll have a written summary within 48 hours.
$99 introductory rate · Paid at booking · Australian professionals, anywhere
The goal isn't to choose a career today. It's to gather enough information to make a confident decision.
What you leave with
Three things, in writing
Most career conversations end with encouragement. This one ends with a document you can act on.
Clarity about what you want
Your career drivers, ranked — income, flexibility, security, autonomy, the work itself. Including the places where two of them are pulling against each other.
Two or three realistic directions
Each one tested against qualifications, experience, the actual job market, salary and the life you want. Ruling something out counts as progress.
A plan for the next 30 days
Three actions for this week, two or three for the month, and a date to decide whether to keep going down that path.
How the hour works
The session has a structure
You'll complete a ten-minute questionnaire after booking, so we don't spend the session on background. Then we work through seven blocks.
What would make this hour useful
We agree the goal for the session and write it down, so the conversation has something to steer back to.
"If we finish today and you think 'that was worthwhile' — what would we have achieved?"Where you are now
What's working, what isn't, how long you've felt this way, and what you've already tried.
"If nothing changed over the next two years, how would you feel about that?"Your career drivers
Interests, strengths, values, the environment that suits you, and what the job has to provide practically. We rank them so the priorities are explicit rather than assumed.
Your transferable skills
We translate your experience into skills that move between industries — and then separate the ones you're good at from the ones you actually want to keep using.
Career directions
Three options on the table, each with why it fits, what concerns you about it, and what needs researching. Then two questions: which is most interesting, and which is most realistic.
Reality testing
Qualifications, employer expectations, whether the jobs actually exist, salary, lifestyle fit and barriers to entry. This is the part a free online career quiz can't do.
Your action plan
Three things to do this week, the 30-day work, and a decision point. You'll finish the call knowing your first step without waiting for the written summary.
Ways to work together
Start with one session
Most people only need the hour. If you want support through the whole transition, the packages build on the same process.
Career Clarity & Direction
- Pre-session questionnaire
- 60-minute online session
- Career drivers and transferable skills mapped
- 2–3 directions, reality tested
- Written Career Direction Summary within 48 hours
Career Transition Package
- Session 1 — clarity and direction
- Session 2 — career research and pathway
- Session 3 — action plan and implementation
- Written summary after each session
- Email support between sessions
Career Change Program
- Everything in the transition package
- Qualification and study planning
- Job-market research for your target roles
- CV and LinkedIn rebuilt around transferable skills
- Applications and interview preparation
Before you book
Is this the right service for you?
Book it if
- You've outgrown your role but don't know what comes next
- You're weighing up two directions and can't separate them
- You're returning to work after a break
- You're considering study and want to know if it's warranted
- You've been made redundant and need a direction, quickly
- You want honest reality testing rather than encouragement
Not this, if
- You want your resume written — that's a different service
- You want someone to tell you which job to take
- You're looking for personal counselling or mental-health support
- You want a personality test to produce the answer
- You're not willing to do any research between sessions
Who you'll be talking to
Mike Wood
I've spent more than fifteen years in education and training — secondary teaching, international schools, vocational education, instructional design and running my own businesses across Australia and Southeast Asia. My own career hasn't been a straight line, which is part of why I do this work.
I'm not going to tell you to follow your passion. I'll ask better questions than that, take your constraints seriously, and be honest with you about what a direction actually requires before you commit time and money to it.
Sessions are online, so I work with people anywhere in Australia — and with Australians working overseas who are thinking about coming home.
Qualifications
- Graduate Certificate in Education — Career Development and Counselling (in progress)
- Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)
- Graduate Certificate in IB Education (PYP)
- Bachelor of Business
- TAE40122 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
- Diploma of TESOL
Working toward CICA Professional Membership and listing on the Australian Register of Career Development Professionals.
Questions
Before you book
What happens after I book?
You'll get a ten-question questionnaire straight away. It takes about ten minutes and I need it back at least 24 hours before we speak, so I can read it properly and come to the session prepared rather than spending the first fifteen minutes on background.
Will you tell me what career to do?
No. I'll help you narrow the field to two or three directions that genuinely fit your skills, values and constraints, and I'll test each one against reality so you can see what it would actually take. The decision stays yours — that's the point.
Do you use personality or career tests?
Not as the answer. We rank your career drivers together during the session, which is a structured way of getting your priorities out of your head and onto paper. It isn't a psychometric instrument and I won't present it as one.
Is this counselling?
No. This is career-development guidance. If something comes up in the session that needs psychological support, I'll say so and point you toward the right kind of practitioner rather than working outside what I'm qualified to do.
What if one session isn't enough?
Then we talk about it at the end, without pressure. Plenty of people take the summary, do the 30 days of research and never need me again. That's a good outcome.
Do you work with employers?
Yes — career development workshops, outplacement support and transition programs for organisations. Get in touch and tell me what you're trying to achieve.
Book a session
One hour. Two or three directions. A plan.
Sessions run online and are paid at the time of booking. If the time you want isn't available, email me and we'll find one.