Employment consulting · Kuna, Idaho
Most job searches don't fail for the reason you think.
You've sent out dozens of applications and heard almost nothing back. Before I touch your resume, I find out what is actually going wrong in your search. Then we build the plan that fixes it.
I can't promise you an offer. I can promise you'll leave knowing exactly what to change, and why.
Employment Success Assessment
Sample Findings
Targeting
Applying three levels above current scope
Resume
Clears the ATS, then buries the experience that matters
How you explain the gap
Apologizing for it instead of accounting for it
Referrals
Every application through a portal, no warm introductions
Interviewing
Strong once you're in the room. Too few rooms.
The finding: this search isn't failing on the resume. It's failing on targeting and referrals, so that's where the Blueprint starts.
This is one person's findings. Yours will look different and may not include a single one of these. That's the whole point.
The problem
Rewriting your resume won't help if the resume isn't the problem.
Most career coaches open with a resume rewrite, because that's the product they sell. But if you're aiming at roles you were never going to win, or your LinkedIn never surfaces in a recruiter's search, or you're losing them in the first five minutes of the interview, a new resume just makes the same mistake in a nicer font.
I spent my career finding the root cause of broken processes. A job search is a process. It can be measured, diagnosed, and corrected.
I don't assume. I ask.
CINDY PATON
How I work
Diagnostic first. Every time.
The diagnostic isn't something you buy from me. It's how I start with everyone. I'm not going to sell you a resume rewrite, an interview package, or a LinkedIn overhaul until I understand what is actually happening in your search. Sometimes the answer is the resume. Often it isn't.
STAGE 01
Understand
Your history, your goals, and everything you have already tried. I don't assume. I ask.
STAGE 02
Diagnose
I look at your search the way a hiring team would, and find what is actually costing you the callback.
STAGE 03
Strategize
You get a written plan: what to change, in what order, and why each change matters.
STAGE 04
Implement
We work the plan together. Check-ins, honest feedback, and progress you can measure.
What i look at
There is no fixed checklist.
I don't walk in with a list of boxes to tick. Some searches break on targeting. Some on the resume. Some on something I have never seen before, and would have missed entirely if I had come in with a template.
These are things I may look at, depending on what your situation turns up.
Click on the topics below to download a PDF.
I don't know what the problem is until I look at your situation. Anyone who tells you otherwise before they have met you is selling you their product, not solving your problem.
why me
A Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, pointed at your job search.
I'm Cindy Paton. I spent years in operations solving problems where the obvious answer was almost never the real one, and years, quietly, helping friends and colleagues get unstuck in their careers.
When I finished my Master Black Belt, it clicked. The same root-cause analysis I had been using on business processes works just as well on a job search. That is the whole idea behind this practice.
Credentials that matter here
Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and Agile project management. Structured problem-solving, applied to careers.
The hiring side of the table
My husband Jeff spent years in recruiting and management. That view from the other side shapes how I coach.
Small on purpose
A handful of clients at a time. You're a person I'm thinking about, not a ticket in a queue.
Between sessions
I keep working — researching your market, refining the plan, building the thing you need next.
the offer
The Employment Success Package
$599
One package. One price, posted publicly. No sales call required to find out what it costs.
Everything starts with the Assessment. What we find there decides what the rest of the engagement looks like, and in what order we work it.
Before you buy anything: a free 20 to 30 minute discovery call. We talk about your situation and decide together whether working with me is the right move. If it isn't, I'll say so.
✓
Employment Success Assessment
A full review of your current search to find what is working, what isn't, and what is actually costing you results.
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Employment Success Blueprint
Your personalized action plan, built from what the Assessment turns up. What to change, in what order, and why.
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Resume Review
A detailed review of your primary resume against your employment goal, plus a follow-up review once you have made changes.
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LinkedIn Profile Review
How well your profile supports your goal and presents your experience, plus a follow-up review after revisions.
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Networking Strategy Session
A strategy built around your goals, your personality, and your actual comfort level. Not a script you'd never use.
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Career Direction & Transition Strategy
Positioning your existing skills and experience for a new role, occupation, or industry. Included when it applies.
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30-Day Accountability Support
A progress session and email check-ins while you work the Blueprint, so it doesn't sit in a folder.
IN THEIR WORDS
What it's like to work with me.
Cindy's advice, coaching, and input was not only beneficial but crucial in assisting me to evaluate my needs and the needs of my family, focusing my efforts in a productive and positive direction.
RHONDA W. • Buford, Georgia
Cindy approached my situation the way she approaches everything — with clarity, structure, and genuine heart.
My application score went from a 32 to an 88. She found the problem I had been staring past for months.
SHEIILA O. • DALLAS, TX
Cindy consistently shares smart, practical insights on job searching and Lean Six Sigma. I’ve learned a lot just from following her content and was able to practically apply her tools in my own search.
LILI L. • NEW YORK, NY
GET STARTED
Start where it costs nothing.
Book a free 20 to 30 minute discovery call. We'll talk about where you are stuck and whether I am the right person to help. If I'm not, I will tell you, and I will point you somewhere better.
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The discovery call is a conversation about fit, not a coaching session. No detailed analysis of your search happens on that call.
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Employment consulting for people who are tired of guessing why the applications aren't landing. Diagnose first. Then fix the right thing.
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Cindy's Employment Consulting Strategies provides career coaching and employment consulting services. We are not an employment agency. We do not place candidates, contact employers on your behalf, or guarantee interviews, offers, or employment outcomes.
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