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CUSTOMIZE & OPTIMIZE YOUR FUTURE

Career Coaching
to help you soar

Services

Initial Consultation

Complimentary initial consultation.

Resume Optimization

* Review of your résumé * Provide detailed feedback to improve your chances of obtaining an initial interview. $150 Fee.

Goal Assessment

* Transferable skills review * Brainstorming session * Review core experience with areas of strength * Discuss income requirements and potential desired positions * 15-minute follow-up with potential job listings $300 Fee.

Interview Prep

Assisting client with all aspects of interview prep including: *Anticipating questions * Weaving prior experience and education with current job responsibilities and requirements. *Corporate research in alignment with client goals * Other specialized techniques $150 per hour

Corporate Navigation Assistance

Helping an employee in a current role navigate through challenges: *Ranges from performance advancement opportunities * Proper method of requesting a reasonable accommodation or otherwise navigating the relationship between management and corporate leaders. * Every calibration can provide an opportunity. $250 per hour

Business Start-Up

If you are thinking of starting your own business or even becoming a Business Consultant I can assist you. The start-up package includes: * Naming, developmental focus * Obtaining an EIN * Market research on the competitive landscape, etc. $1500 flat fee.

About

Terry Laster, JD, MBA

I have over ten (10) years of experience as a Career Coach with a primary focus on partnering with compassionate and successful career professionals. People, who, through a change of life circumstance or who are forced to make a dramatic shift in their original career goals.

Before becoming a career coach in January 2012, I had a successful career as a Director of Government Affairs at a Fortune 500 company that was an industry leader. in that role, I not only learned how to successfully navigate corporate culture to achieve success and advancement, but I also learned how to refine and grow talent. In addition, because my former organization changed strategies and economic conditions dictated changes in the workforce, I became a leader within the organization of how to help Associates transition to new roles within the organization.



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Contact

  • 5127 Long Branch Avenue, San Diego, California, United States

Testimonials

 After my four decades in the sales and marketing industry, Terry helped me recognize my potential future life. He saw strengths in me that I didn't really know were there, and helped me monetize my valuable property (Condo) in a Capital City. He has mad skills. 

SK Pepper: Property Manager

 Terry Laster has been a game changer for my business in the past several years. His easy-going but direct style helped me hone in on my strengths. He has elevated my Interior Design business which has helped me soar. 

R. Metz: Interior Designer

 During the Covid crisis, I began to reassess my career. Although I was successful in my job and satisfied with my compensation, I was not happy with work-life balance, nor with the direction the company was going. However, I have no college or advanced degree and most people who have my position at other companies have at least a bachelors degree, some have graduate and most have special certifications. Terry helped me to refine my résumé and to focus on companies that are a better fit for me. Secondly, he helped me apply for new positions and create talking points to support the reasons why my lack of education and certifications are not a hindrance at this stage in my career. Ultimately I received two great job offers and I am much happier in my new role. 

Robert P.

 I first consulted with Terry at Laster Career Counseling 10 years ago when I started my own law practice. This was instrumental in helping me to zero in on practice areas, fine tune my workforce and determine specific marketing strategies. However, after the birth of a special needs child, divorce, and Covid hit, I consulted with him again in order to reassess. Once again, through brainstorming sessions while understanding the nature of my workflow, Terry helped me to streamline my practice, allowing me time for personal fitness and to homeschool my child. 

Theresa W.

 When I consulted with Terry I had already applied for and obtained a new position with another company. After I had been with the company for six months I wasn't happy there. Not only had I signed a retention agreement, but within my profession and within my local community, I did not want to burn bridges by hopping to a new company in a new role so soon. Through brainstorming with Terry I was able to share the reasons that I did not like my new role or new company, He helped me to understand that what I really needed to do was to ask for a reasonable accommodation for some family issues that I was experiencing. In the end I still did not like my job or the organization, but it allowed me to remain in the position long enough to comfortably seek a new opportunity without being terminated in the current role. 

Olga H.