HEART-Aligned Job Search™
Find the role.
Keep your soul.
Job search clarity, confidence, and connection — powered by HEARTset
Career coaching from someone who knows both sides of the hiring table.
Finding the right role takes more than a polished résumé and a few interview tips. It takes clarity about what you want, confidence in what you bring, and a strategy for connecting the two.
In addition to her executive and leadership coaching credentials, Head Coach and HEARTset Studio Founder, Lisa Virtue, is a Master Professional Career Coach (MPCC), certified by the International Association of Career Coaches (IACC). She brings more than 20 years of leadership experience, including hiring, interviewing, developing, and promoting talent, along with years of coaching professionals through career changes, job searches, interviews, negotiations, and leadership transitions.
Our approach blends coaching with practical guidance, tools, feedback, and practice. You won’t just talk about what you want to do. We’ll work together to clarify it, communicate it, and take action on it.
Because a successful job search isn’t simply about getting an offer.
It’s about finding work you can pour your heart into, without burning out.
More than job-search advice.
A strategy built around YOU.
The HEART-Aligned Job Search™ is designed to help you make better career decisions and become more effective at navigating the modern hiring process without losing yourself in it.
Depending on where you are in your career transition, we may work together on career clarity and direction, positioning and personal brand, résumé and LinkedIn strategy, networking and relationship-building, interview preparation and practice, offer evaluation, salary negotiation, and the confidence to make decisions that actually fit the life and career you want.
And when you have a difficult conversation, interview, networking meeting, or negotiation coming up, we don’t have to stop at talking about it.
We practice it.
You can test your message, hear yourself say the words, get real-time feedback, try again, and walk into the actual conversation better prepared.
That’s the difference between simply knowing what you should do and feeling ready to actually do it.
Job Search Services
HEARTset Career Intensive
$495 | One-time investment | 90 minutes
For when you need clarity, strategy, or practice around one important career challenge or decision.
Use your intensive to work on career direction, job-search strategy, positioning, résumé or LinkedIn feedback, networking, interview preparation, offer evaluation, salary negotiation, or another focused career question.
Your intensive includes a short pre-session intake, a 90-minute private coaching session, practical feedback and practice, a personalized next-step plan, and one follow-up email for questions that surface after the session.
Best for: Someone who already knows where they need help and wants focused, expert support without committing to a longer coaching engagement.
HEART-Aligned Job Search Coaching™
$2,700 for 3 months
Your 3-month engagement includes:
7 private coaching sessions to use within the 3-month engagement:
(1) A 55-minute Career Strategy & Clarity Session to begin the engagement, where we’ll clarify what you’re looking for, what matters most in your next role, where you may be getting stuck, and what your job-search strategy should prioritize
(5) Five additional 55-minute private coaching sessions tailored to what is actually happening in your search
(1) One 75-minute Résumé Customization Workshop, used when you have a real opportunity you want to pursue. We’ll work from your actual résumé and job description so you can see how we evaluate the role, identify what should be emphasized, rewrite select sections in real time, and show you how to use AI tools strategically to make future customization faster and easier
BONUS: One 30-minute Offer & Negotiation Strategy Call for a specific offer you are seriously considering accepting. This call may be used during the engagement or after the 3-month engagement has ended and is valid for one year. One negotiation call is included per engagement and is subject to scheduling availability.
Included in your package:
A personalized job-search strategy and clear priorities for where to focus your time
Career direction and positioning support so you can articulate what you want and why you are a strong fit
LinkedIn positioning, review, and feedback
Networking and referral strategy, including help preparing outreach and conversations
Interview preparation, mock interviews, and real-time feedback
Offer evaluation and decision support as opportunities arise
Email support between sessions for quick questions, updates, and preparation
An asynchronous weekly check-in from your coach to help you stay accountable, reflect on your progress, and identify what needs your attention next
Practical, just-in-time job-search resources to support the work between sessions, including outreach scripts, networking guides, interview-preparation tools, custom AI prompts, and other templates or examples relevant to your search
All 7 coaching sessions must be used within the 3-month engagement and do not roll over. The 30-minute Offer & Negotiation Strategy Call is the exception.
This is a coaching, strategy, and practice engagement, not a done-for-you résumé-writing service. You’ll retain ownership of your career story and materials while receiving guidance, feedback, and practice to strengthen them.
Best for: Someone who wants consistent accountability and expert support throughout an active job search or career transition.
Not sure which level of support you need?
Start with the career challenge in front of you. If one focused conversation can move you forward, choose the Intensive. If you want ongoing support navigating the full search, and your job search efforts have fallen flat, the three-month HEART-Aligned Job Search is designed for you. If still in doubt, reach out to book a Discovery Call with Coach Lisa.
Client Testimonials
“I can proudly say I have landed a job at my dream company with Lisa’s help!”
“Lisa has an awesome program...Having someone to lean on through the wild world of job hunting definitely gives you a leg up and the confidence you need to find a job that's right for you.”
“At a pivotal point in my professional life, Lisa was my tour guide. She helped me deal with my nerves going into the interview process for my dream job. I absolutely credit Lisa with taking me from petrified to completely Zen. I nailed it and got the offer.”
“Lisa not only helps you with your job search and everything around that (resume, networking, interview preparation, etc.), but she also motivates you to follow your passion and take that extra step.”
Your Questions, Answered re:
Career Coaching & Fit
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A career coach can help you clarify your career direction, create a focused job-search strategy, communicate your value, strengthen networking and interview skills, evaluate opportunities, and prepare for salary and offer negotiations. HEART-Aligned Job Search combines coaching with practical guidance, feedback, practice, and accountability so you can move from thinking about your next step to taking action.
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Career coaching is most useful when you need more than information. You may already know you should network, tailor your résumé, prepare for interviews, or be more strategic, but knowing what to do is different from doing it well and consistently. We provide individualized strategy, candid feedback, accountability, practice, and support as your search unfolds. Career coaching cannot guarantee a job, but it can help you run a stronger, more focused search.
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Yes. HEARTset Studio is based in Oregon and works with professionals in the Portland area and beyond through virtual career coaching. HEART-Aligned Job Search is designed for experienced professionals and leaders who want individualized support through a career change or active job search.
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We work with experienced professionals and leaders across industries because many of the hardest parts of a job search are transferable: career decision-making, positioning, networking, interviewing, communicating value, and evaluating offers.
Founder and Master Head Coach Lisa Virtue brings more than 20 years of leadership and hiring experience and has coached professionals across a range of industries. You bring the depth in your field; we bring career strategy, hiring, communication, and coaching expertise. When a question depends on highly specialized industry knowledge, we will identify what needs additional research or specialist input. -
It is designed for experienced professionals and leaders who want more than generic job-search advice. It is a strong fit if you want a strategic partner, practical feedback, accountability, and a place to practice important conversations while staying in ownership of your own career story and materials.
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There is no responsible way to guarantee how long a job search will take. Timing depends on your field, level, location, target roles, hiring market, network, and search activity. The three-month engagement is designed to help you build a focused strategy, improve how you show up in the market, and keep taking the actions that increase your chances of finding the right opportunity.
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There is no shortage of job-search advice, and AI can be extremely useful. The hard part is deciding which advice applies to you, which advice conflicts, what to ignore, and what to do next when the search is not working. We help you look at your goals, experience, market, materials, and results together, make decisions, spot patterns and blind spots, practice important conversations, and adjust the strategy as the search unfolds. We also bring firsthand hiring and leadership experience, so recommendations are grounded in both coaching and how hiring decisions actually get made. AI is a tool we can use with you, not something you have to choose instead of coaching.
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A good time to hire a career coach is when you are unclear about what you want next, changing careers, returning to the job market after a long time, applying without getting enough interviews, interviewing without getting the offers you want, or facing a high-stakes offer or negotiation. You do not have to wait until the search feels broken. Coaching can also be useful at the beginning, when better direction and strategy can prevent months of scattered effort.
FAQs re:
Career Clarity & Career Change
Can career coaching help me figure out which jobs to apply for?Yes. One of the first steps is defining what a strong-fit opportunity actually looks like for you. We can look at your strengths, experience, interests, values, compensation needs, lifestyle priorities, and the market, then build clearer filters for role titles, functions, industries, company types, and deal-breakers. The goal is to spend less time applying broadly and more time pursuing opportunities that make sense for you.
I want to change careers. How do I narrow down my options?Career change gets easier when you stop asking, “What could I do?” and start defining what a good next move must include. We can help you narrow your options using your strengths, interests, values, transferable skills, compensation needs, lifestyle priorities, and market realities, then test the strongest possibilities through research and conversations before you commit to a direction.
Will I have to take a pay cut if I change careers?Not necessarily. A career change can mean a pay cut, a lateral move, or even an increase depending on how transferable your experience is, the demand for your skills, the roles you target, and whether you are changing function, industry, and level all at once. We can evaluate adjacent options, compensation expectations, and the tradeoffs before you make a move so you are not assuming a pay cut is inevitable.