[Hiring] Career Transition Coach @Respiris

Role Description

As a Career Transition Coach, you will work one-on-one with candidates who have lost their jobs. You will meet with each candidate weekly and become their best friend in transition: someone who listens deeply, remembers what matters, challenges when needed, and helps them move forward. Your job is not to run candidates through a template. It is to understand them deeply enough that their strategy, resume, Career Prayer™, networking approach, and next steps feel uniquely theirs.

What You’ll Do

• Meet with candidates weekly throughout their engagement.
• Understand their career story, strengths, motivations, values, and goals.
• Help each candidate develop their Career Prayer™: who they are, what they do best, what they want next, and how others can help.
• Partner with candidates to build and strengthen resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and professional narratives.
• Activate their network through Career Prayer and targeted outreach.
• Help identify target roles, companies, industries, and opportunities.
• Prepare candidates for interviews and important career conversations.
• Use AI and research tools to improve preparation, insight, and personalization.
• Collaborate with other coaches, operations, and the founder to continuously improve the candidate experience.

Qualifications

• An undergraduate degree.
• Meaningful professional experience across more than one company, environment, industry, or stage of business.
• A strong understanding of how careers are built, changed, and reinvented.
• Experience navigating organizations, leaders, teams, hiring processes, or career decisions.
• Exceptional listening, communication, and relationship-building skills.
• High emotional intelligence and self-awareness.
• The ability to build trust quickly and ask thoughtful, sometimes difficult questions.
• Strong judgment and the ability to operate without a rigid playbook.
• Comfort adapting your approach based on the individual in front of you.
• The ability to recognize patterns, identify obstacles, and help candidates find creative paths forward.
• Strong follow-through and reliability.
• Comfort working independently while staying highly collaborative with the Respiris team.
• Availability during business hours for candidate sessions.

Requirements

• Experience with tools or frameworks such as MBTI, Enneagram, CliftonStrengths, DISC, Working Genius, Hogan, Emotional Intelligence, or other behavioral, coaching, or career-development frameworks.
• Curiosity about what makes individuals unique and how to help them realize their potential.

Benefits

• This is a 1099 independent contractor role paying $38–$50/coaching session/hour.
• Designed for experienced professionals who may be building fractional HR, coaching, or consulting practices.
• Opportunity to grow into a broader builder role with Respiris.
• Potential to earn additional revenue through business development and marketplace growth beyond coaching hours.

Company Description

Respiris is reimagining outplacement for the AI era. We support people who have lost their jobs by combining human coaching, AI, and community to help them regain confidence, clarify what comes next, activate their networks, and move forward with purpose. Our mission is simple: No one should experience a career transition alone.