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International development coaching and mentor support

kcoach offers specialist advice for career changers, new graduates, VSO returned volunteers, international development workers and people in career transition looking for value driven careers.

You can get individual careers advice tailored to your needs to help you build a strategy towards your ideal job in International Development through a career consultation

  • Receive personal advice about your skills and your career options

  • Learn proven techniques to write a winning application or CV and get an interview

  • Get support in your applications and cover letters as you work towards your next international development job.
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International Development CV workshop. 21 February 2012, London

 

Vitalise your CV and energise your job hunting thorough this unique workshop. It’s especially designed for those who are applying for jobs, or interested in working, in International Development.

In two intensive hours you will…

  • Discover the 6 steps to writing a great CV.

  • Get all your questions answered.

  • Identify your relevant transferrable skills.

  • Learn how to get your CV, application and cover letter accepted.

  • Work in a small group facilitated by two experienced sector experts.

And you get

A FREE 30 minute follow-up session for a review of your new CV. All of this specialist advice is now available to you for one amazingly low price.

After the last workshop SSB said...
"Your advice was absolutely perfect. I feel I have come on leaps and bounds now, thanks to you guys"

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Results?
One client was 1 of 5 selected from 1,700 applications for interview.

The client before was selected for interview from 650 applications.

 

Case Study: Alex>

 

Get help with your application, CV or covering letter, or develop a strategy and career goals, whatever you need, help is at hand.


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For the 9th consecutive year Kevin Cusack presented the enormously successful seminar, Transition into International Development,  to over 200 people.

The forum3 page on the KnowHow NonProfit website contains the following podcasts:

International development: the inside track
Kevin Cusack

How to break into international development: debate

Panellists include:

Katherine Tubb – 2Way Development

Shelley Reynolds – VSO

Jeff Riley – University of London, the Careers Group

Kevin Cusack – World Service Enquiry

Working in international development: top tips
Fiona Malone, World Vision UK

  • how to get into international development

  • opportunities at World Vision UK

Listen to WV's international development top tips


I want to be an Aid worker from www.globalpovertyproject.com


 


Feedback from Career Consultation clients...

I just wanted to say a very big thank you for all your wonderful help!

It has been a real pleasure working with you from the beginning with your great suggestions and following the simple yet effective strategy you set out for me.

Your feedback throughout the process is much appreciated and I will definitely recommend your help to anyone who is wondering what to do next and how to go about getting a job they are passionate about!! MH - NGO worker

Thanks for yesterday. It was definitely an eye-opener. ZH
A big thank you for your time yesterday – I love your style – I feel fully armed with the knowledge I need to get my CV up to scratch and as importantly what I need to be doing to refine and focus my quest to ‘move on’. JP - Assistant Director of a national charity
I have found your input enormously helpful, both with regard to my CV and also with regard to resources and advice for job-hunting. BJ - UK

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Development as
Freedom
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How Rich Countries
Got Rich and Why
Poor Countries
Stay Poor
 
by Erik S. Reinert
£9.09

The Bottom Billion:
Why the Poorest
Countries are...
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Poverty and
Development
 
by Tim Allen
£36.04

The History of
Development:
From Western
Origins...
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