Coaching with AVGS
Application coaching 50+

You get that crucial bit of extra support from us

Some job seekers aged 50+ have already experienced numerous failures (job loss, longer duration of unemployment, lack of recognition, little social-emotional support, unsuccessful job applications, etc.), have resigned and do not have the necessary prerequisites and strategies to successfully (re-)start working life.

Through individual support that builds on existing competencies, we support the integration process of each individual and thus enable our participants to (re)enter professional life.

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This practice-intensive seminar is aimed at experienced employees who are applying for a new job. You will reflect on your previous work experience, your acquired professional qualifications and your personal strengths. You will learn about modern application procedures and what is important for a successful application. To this end, you will take a look behind the scenes of application and selection procedures. You will learn what an optimal application looks like, what questions are asked in job interviews and how to perform very well in selection tests. Finally, you will learn how to optimize your personal appearance in role plays.

A. Introduction

Requirements for application documents – Application and selection procedure – Criteria for applicant selection – Assessment center procedure – Overview of recruitment and aptitude tests

B. Fundamentals

Analysis of strengths and development potentials – Overview of acquired qualifications – Criteria for job search – Selection of suitable jobs – Analysis of job requirements – Comparison of job requirements with personal qualifications – Preparation of application documents – Sample applications – Preparation of speculative applications – Preparation for telephone interviews – Special features of online applications – Preparation for job interviews – Simulation of job interviews – Procedure of assessment centers – Preparation for recruitment and aptitude tests

C. Practical implementation

Focusing on own abilities – Exploiting development potential – Comparing self-image and the image of others – Finding suitable jobs – Analyzing job requirements – Identifying personal qualifications – Preparing application documents in a targeted manner – Analyzing the phases of a job interview – Preparing for job interview questions – Simulating job interviews – Practicing convincing self-presentation – Using body language and rhetoric consciously – Practicing speaking and breathing techniques – Rehearsing relaxation techniques – Preparing specifically for assessment center exercises – Practicing recruitment and aptitude tests

Advantage:

Taking into account current and individual application efforts, participants receive individual support in one-on-one coaching to prepare up-to-date and complete application documents and to prepare intensively for job interviews and application procedures. The integration of our participants into the job market is our primary goal. Our constructive participation in regional networks and close contacts with companies are a recipe for success in this regard. Our employees are actively involved in the networking of the regional and national employment market, and continuously maintain and expand their networks.

Course completion: In-house certificate

Even in times of innovative methods, the personal impression in the job interview remains the decisive factor in the personnel selection of many companies. The intensity and quality of one’s own preparations in the run-up to a job interview significantly influence the probability of success. How is it possible to appear confident and sovereign in job interviews and not only to convince the decision-makers of oneself, but to inspire them as much as possible? You will practically experience and train the answers to these questions in our exciting job interview coaching.

A. Understanding job interviews
What interviewers pay particular attention to – How do job interviews work? – What should be considered before and after the interview?

B. Prepare and actively train conversation successes

The components of a successful self-presentation – Creating an individual self-presentation with a convincing message – Which questions are asked and how do I answer optimally? – Stress interview live – How do I respond confidently to difficult and provocative questions? – How do I manage to stay calm and composed in any situation? – How do I overcome test anxiety? – How do I make myself likeable? – Body language – tips and tricks for a confident and authentic appearance

Details:

Job interview coaching
Taking into account your current and individual application efforts, you will receive individual coaching to help you prepare up-to-date and complete application documents and to prepare intensively for job interviews and application procedures.

Advantage

The integration of our participants into the primary labor market is our top priority. Our constructive cooperation in regional networks and close contacts with companies and chambers of commerce are a recipe for success in this regard.
Our employees are actively involved in the networking of the regional and supraregional
employment market, and continuously maintain and expand their networks.

Course completion: In-house certificate

You already have many years of professional experience and would like to take up a new profession or are about to change your career? This seminar will help you in your search for the “right profession” or the “right job”. In exercises you will explore your strengths, interests and needs. Together we will find out which profession really suits you and promises positive prospects. To this end, you will reflect on the labor market situation and learn about new job profiles. By preparing for various selection procedures, you will optimize your own appearance.

A. Introduction
Vocational orientation – Analysis of job profiles – Evaluation of job offers – Preparation for selection procedures

B. Fundamentals

Analysis of strengths and development potentials – Comparison of self-image and external image – Evaluation of personal professional experiences – Assessment of acquired professional qualifications – Exploration of personal interests – Analysis of personal needs – Development of professional perspectives – Optimization of personal job search – Evaluation of job offers – Creation and preparation of application documents – Preparation for application and selection procedures

C. Practical implementation

Personal interests, needs and talents explore – own abilities focus – development potentials use – job offers analyze – the suitable place select – purposefully on selection procedures prepare – body language and Rhetorik consciously use – self-confident and convincingly appear – itself effectively present – the own effect on others reflect – itself motivate – relaxation procedures purposefully use – application documents prepare effectively

Details:

We know that an obviously good factual aptitude for a profession is only one – albeit important – building block of the foundation for a successful career. Other foundation stones are the inner drive, the desire to take up a certain profession, precise information about the activities in the desired career and – last but not least – the feeling that you have made an independent decision about your professional career. In the course of the coaching process, you develop a sense of the profession in which you could best apply your interests and skills, and in which profession you could develop the greatest ambitions.

Forming an independent opinion, a self-determined choice of profession, which you can justify to yourself and others, are the goals of this coaching.

The support of the coach consists in letting you come to ideas about yourself and what makes you tick through professional questioning. In this way, in a respectful way and not by judging your individual personality, you will develop clarity about your abilities and possibilities.

Course completion: In-house certificate

Do you perform very well professionally and convince methodically and interpersonally? Now it’s a matter of effectively communicating your individual strengths and making your distinctive contribution to the company’s success visible. In this seminar you will learn how important professional self-marketing is. Discover your unknown potentials and use them for your personal career strategy. Use your strengths in a targeted way to convince employees and superiors of your ideas. Learn how to assess and optimize your own impact on others. The goal of this training is to generate positive attention, radiate competence and arouse sympathy with just a few words. This practice-intensive seminar uses methods and exercises to help you further develop your personal skills, sharpen your distinctive profile and use it in a targeted manner to achieve your career goals.

A. Introduction

Reasons for professional self-marketing – Basics of self-marketing – Insights of personality psychology

B. Key Questions

What first impression do I convey? How do I appear to employees, superiors and customers? How do I want to be seen by others? How can I optimize my personal appearance? How important are clothing, appearance and manners? How can I identify, develop and emphasize my own strengths? Which development potentials have I left unused so far? How can I handle failures with confidence? How do I succeed in appearing confident and sovereign even in difficult leadership situations? Which professional tasks are particularly suitable for demonstrating my strengths?

C. Practical implementation

Learning effective methods of self-marketing – Comparing self-image and the image of others – Analyzing strengths and development potential – Emphasizing distinctive strengths – Presenting oneself – Using body language and rhetoric in a targeted manner – Appearing confident – Dealing with fears confidently – Increasing assertiveness – Developing career goals – Using one’s own strengths to achieve career goals – Performing probationary tasks – Highlighting personal achievements – Aligning corporate and personal identity – Developing a unique selling proposition – Making a distinctive impression

Course completion: In-house certificate

Assertiveness and self-confidence are indispensable for asserting yourself efficiently in a team, taking on leadership tasks and ensuring joint success. In this practice-intensive seminar, you will learn how to optimize your assertiveness and persuasiveness through methods and exercises. You will discover your own strengths and development potential and learn how you affect others. In numerous exercises you will train your self-confident and assertive appearance. At the end of this seminar, you will be able to assert yourself through the conscious use of your strengths, body language and rhetoric, even in difficult situations, and to stand your ground against resistance.

A. Introduction

Methods of self-assertion – Increasing assertiveness – Self-marketing techniques

B. Techniques

Comparison of self-image and external image – self-presentation techniques – competence and resource analysis – self-assertion techniques – body language – speaking and breathing exercises – rhetoric – repartee techniques – argumentation training – persuasion techniques – conflict management – relaxation methods – moderation and presentation techniques – training of self-confident behavior

C. Practical implementation

Presenting oneself – Overcoming inner blocks – Using body language and rhetoric consciously – Increasing self-confidence – Recognizing one’s own strengths – Using development potential – Making one’s own achievements visible – Asserting oneself in groups and making oneself heard – Convincing interlocutors – Dealing successfully with objections and criticism – Mastering verbal attacks – Taking on responsible activities – Dealing confidently with power struggles and competition – Saying no at the right moments

Course completion: In-house certificate

This coaching is aimed specifically at job applicants who want to appear convincing, confident and winning through the conscious use of their body language. Through simple exercises, you will train to appear calm and confident in job interviews and presentations and to convince your counterpart. With the help of body language, you will learn to better assess your own feelings, to recognize the feelings and motives of your conversation partners more quickly and to relax in stressful situations within seconds.

Course completion: In-house certificate

Many job seekers aged 50+ have already experienced numerous failures (job loss, longer duration of unemployment, lack of recognition, little social-emotional support, unsuccessful job applications, etc.), have resigned themselves and do not have the necessary prerequisites and strategies to successfully (re-)start working life. Through individual support that builds on existing competencies, we support the integration process of each individual and thus enable our participants to (re)enter professional life.

Course completion: In-house certificate

In order to have realistic chances of finding a job or training position in the labor market, it is important to apply with formally correct, meaningful, but at the same time individual documents.

Taking into account your personal strengths and abilities, we support you in your own activities and prepare you for future application situations.

Course completion: In-house certificate

Finding your way around the German job market is not always easy. Especially the peculiarities and adaptation of each application to the requirements of each possible employer are often a great challenge. Also, job interviews have to be prepared and coordinated individually.

With our special concept of application assistance, we support you during the entire time of your job search and application with our coaching and personnel knowledge and adapt this individually to your needs. In doing so, we support you with the classic application consulting topics as well as with all your questions that may arise in the course of your application. We accompany you until you have found a suitable job. During this time we help you again and again with the search for new job offers, the individual adjustment of your documents and with the preparation of the individual interviews.

At the beginning, we discuss where you should or can look for jobs and what the application procedure is. We will help you with the search, the preparation of the customized application documents and the sending of the application. After an invitation to an interview, we prepare it promptly. We also coordinate and prepare all further interviews. If you finally receive a job offer, we evaluate the employment contract together and check the conditions.

Course completion: In-house certificate

Perfectly prepared application documents are your first impression on your potential new employee. We check your documents with you and give you valuable tips on how to optimize them.

Details:

Check of the following documents, incl. suggestions for improvement (feedback discussion):

  • Cover page
  • Cover letter
  • Resume
  • Application photo
  • Diplomas, training and school certificates
  • Work references
  • Samples of work, list of publications
  • Certificates of further education
  • References

Course completion: In-house certificate

All our modules can be combined flexibly and can also be adapted to your individual needs in terms of content and duration.

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