Happen To Your CareerReviews of happentoyourcareer.com

HTYC was a great experience and definitely worthwhile. The podcast is so engaging with inspiring stories of people who have taken the effort and made a meaningful change to their careers, and I found the HTYC coaching exactly all about that. Megan was so good to work with; warm, compassionate, with great prompts and challenges to think differently. Her support was invaluable going through the process and helped me to make a career shift in the right direction. Thanks Megan!

What was great about HTYC's career coaching experience to me personally was the combination of the digital course and the 1:1 coaching. I was able to learn the skills through the course and then my coach helped me think through the application of those skills and how they particularly related to my discovery and search process.

The collective team at HTYC is fantastic. Throughout the process, I felt well-supported. Even in cases in which I need a course correction to maintain the path, it was handled with respect and from a sense of authentic compassion and commitment for the goals I outlined. The framework, (documentation, videos and people) make it easy to succeed if you are willing to follow the process.

Happen To Your Career has been such an eye opening experience for me! I was feeling very stuck in my career & like I couldn't make new moves forward with a clear lens. After discovering the podcast, I right away knew I needed to connect with HTYC. My experience started off with Cindy, who is such a GEM. She gave me hope & helped me see my potential in our discussions. I'm really thankful for her initial guidance. She paired me with coach Jesse. When I started working with Jesse I was feeling uncertain & frazzled. Through coaching, Jesse helped me see how my skills from one career I had been in almost 20 years, could translate to SO many other career paths. Now I'm feeling confident, less anxious and approaching new career experiences with the bright light Jesse saw within me all along . I'd recommend Jesse as a coach to anyone and I'm so thankful I found Happen To Your Career this past year. The company & all their team members are incredible humans I am lucky to have met.

I had an opportunity to take some of the advice I received from Phillip as part of my coaching in the Fall of 2022 and put it into action. I actually got a call back from a job I interviewed for 2 months earlier and didn’t get. I guess I did really well in the interview and they put me on a shortlist for any future openings (which is often the case in the public sector). Since I had already interviewed, things were going to progress straight to the initial offer. To make sure I was ready, I consulted my ideal career profile and assessed my current working situation (which wasn’t great) to determine my salary range. Since public sector salaries are generally governed by policies and collective bargaining agreements, I anticipated that the initial offer would be quite low. In fact, it was $20,000 less than what I was making at my current gig! Since I was desperate to get out, I might have just went along with the initial offer, fearing that they might rescind the offer if I tried to negotiate to a higher salary. Thanks to my chats with Phillip and the modules recorded by Scott, I knew the importance of being honest with myself and what my bare minimum to shift jobs would be (despite my desperation!). Despite REALLY wanting out, I knew I'd also be miserable if I took this gig and was earning less in an inflationary economy! By being intentional and planning ahead, I was able to establish a range that would allow me to get a bump in salary (even when factoring my performance raise at my previous job) without putting the recruiter off. I presented this to them in an honest and transparent way by letting them know where I was now in my current salary range and where they’ll need to be for me to accept the offer. In the end, they met me at the lower end of what I proposed. Nonetheless, by doing the work in advance, I was satisfied with the result because it satisfied two important criteria I established: getting out of my current job and getting a salary bump. Having that knowledge from HTYC really gave me the confidence to approach this situation in a systematic way. Without it, I may have taken a significant pay cut out of desperation or compelled them to rescind the offer because my demands were too high. Salary negotiation is just a microcosm of what you’ll learn at HTYC! When you take the time to set parameters for your ‘ideal job’ (location, salary, commute times, etc.), the ‘overwhelm’ that can accompany these kinds of decisions is reduced significantly!

Never been on a podcast before…Scott made the entire experience just like a conversation. Really enjoyed sharing my story & obviously the entire HTYC team is just top tier. You all have helped me change my life in the most positive and beautiful way. Thank you!

So glad I contacted HTYC when I did. Phillip helped me out of one of the hardest periods of my life - I was struggling with burnout from a previous job and needed a new position, but one that wouldn’t leave me in the same position as I had been in. That’s a tricky situation to be in as I needed to do some self- and job- exploration, but was also under a time constraint to get a new job. Phillip helped to keep me motivated, encouraged, on-track and was empathetic and understanding of the struggles I was going through. Without his guidance and valuable job-search techniques, I wouldn’t have landed the job I’m in today. It’s VERY well suited to me, and I even received $8,000 more than my target salary (which was also $7,000 higher than my previous salary). It’s been 1 year in my new position and I’m happier than ever. Thank you Phillip!

After a couple successful chapters in my career, I couldn't shake the thought of what else was out there. The thought of staying put was always overshadowed by whatever was next. Eventually, I put a stake in the ground by giving a 9 month notice without actually knowing what was next and, while trying to figure that out, I began Googling “how to make a career change” or something that that effect. I found HTYC's free 8-day mini course and after digging in and reflecting for more like a month, I realized if this team offered such a substantive resource for free, they were likely credible so I picked up the phone, had an initial conversation or two, and hired them. Great decision. Again, I didn't know what was next but I was trying to dream big; I wanted a unicorn job - something that I wanted versus what others thought I should do. Something where my value came from whatever I naturally did better than most (no more trying to outwork everyone which only led to burnout), and I wanted to get paid well to do it. My coach (Phillip), Scott, and the rest of the team not only remained patient with me as I dreamed big and took my time to find the right fit, but they encouraged it and never let me settle. To be honest, the journey took longer and was harder than expected. Part of that was due to COVID, but the biggest reasons were related to the time it took to reflect and discover what I naturally do better than most, how to pair that with what matters most to me, and even pivoting my search while I worked with HTYC and learned about different opportunities that are out there. Yes, it was a happy ending; I ultimately landed in a fantastic role that feels right for me at this time of my life, but HTYC helped me learn things about myself and my interests that will impact my future for years to come. The last thing I want to say to anyone looking into HTYC is that authenticity matters greatly to me, and that’s what I found in Scott, Phillip, and every other teammate I came in contact with. This is a group of authentic and trustworthy individuals who genuinely care about making others happy by finding their way. They are great people who are great at what they do. I picked up on this in my initial conversations with Scott and Phillip, and became even more confident in them as time went on. They were with me every step of my journey and I can’t recommend them highly enough. I’m particularly grateful for the support that Scott & Phillip provided, the relationships we built, and the career and life coaching they provided. I’d be happy to hop on a call with anyone thinking about hiring this team. Just ask Scott to connect us.