Resources

Practical tools for the career moment you are actually in.

You may be watching a company change, starting a search, preparing for a high-stakes interview, stepping into a new role, or leading people through a restructuring. Start with the problem in front of you.

Start here
If you may be at risk
Build an exit plan before you need one.

Know the warning signs, clarify your market, and prepare quietly.

If you are searching
Create a 12-week market strategy.

Move beyond applications with positioning, outreach, and follow-up.

If you have an interview
Prepare for the people and business problem.

Turn interview preparation into executive business preparation.

If you just landed
Start the first 90 days deliberately.

Build relationships, priorities, and early wins from Day 1.

Career Risk
Job Search
Interviews
First 90 Days
Employer Change
Featured guides

Start with a tool you can use immediately.

These resources are built around the same frameworks used in The Goldman Method programs and coaching.

Career risk guide

The Executive Exit Plan

A practical framework for preparing before a role is eliminated, a company restructures, or the market forces a change you did not choose.

Positioning • targets • network • readiness
Job-search workbook

The 12-Week Job Search Plan

Turn a vague search into weekly activity: priority opportunities, 20 meaningful outreaches, follow-up discipline, interviews, and next actions.

Strategy • outreach • follow-up • accountability
Interview guide

Interview Like an Executive

Prepare for interviews as business meetings. Understand what each interviewer cares about, the concerns you need to answer, and the evidence to bring into the room.

People • evidence • questions • follow-up
Networking guide

Think Like a Headhunter

Learn how recruiters think, how opportunities move through the hidden market, and how to create conversations beyond the application.

Recruiter lens • market access • WIIFM
New-role workbook

The First 90 Days

A structured guide for understanding the business, building relationships, aligning expectations, and creating early wins in a new role.

Learn • align • deliver
Layoff guide

Layoff Survivor Guide

A practical starting point for what to do immediately after a layoff: organize the transition, stabilize the search, and focus energy where it can create progress.

First steps • search reset • momentum
Find the right starting point

Your next action depends on where you are.

01

I see risk

Build your exit plan while you still have time, title, and leverage.

02

I lost my role

Reset quickly, define the target, and avoid panic applying.

03

I found a job

Analyze the opportunity, tailor the Living Resume, and create access.

04

I have an interview

Prepare for the business, the people, the risks, and the questions.

05

I accepted

Move from candidate to leader with a deliberate first-90-days plan.

For HR and business leaders

Resources for the difficult part of organizational change.

A restructuring is operational, financial, legal, and human at the same time. These tools are designed to help leaders think through the transition before, during, and after the announcement.

Employer toolkit
RIF Planning Checklist

A practical checklist for workforce-reduction planning, communication, transition support, and follow-through.

Outplacement Risk Checklist

Questions to ask before selecting an outplacement approach—privacy, executive needs, employee experience, and measurable progress.

Layoff Survivor Workshop

Support for the people who remain: change, trust, workload, retention, and rebuilding focus.

Manager Conversation Guide

Help leaders prepare for difficult workforce conversations with clarity, respect, and consistency.

Career intelligence

Understand the market before it forces the decision.

The resource library will also become a home for ongoing career and workforce intelligence—especially around restructuring, hiring behavior, executive transitions, and the hidden job market.

01

Restructuring signals

Funding pressure, strategic alternatives, M&A, program failures, regulatory events, leadership changes, and other signals that careers may be affected.

02

Hiring-market intelligence

What companies are hiring, where leadership needs are changing, and what the market is rewarding.

03

Executive transition

How senior leaders should manage positioning, confidentiality, networking, recruiters, interviews, offers, and the first 90 days.

04

Hidden market

How opportunities are shaped before they are posted—and how relevant relationships create access.

05

Interview strategy

Preparing for people, business problems, influence, executive presence, and high-stakes conversations.

06

Growth after transition

First 90 Days, leadership development, influence, communication, and succeeding after the offer.

The resource library is growing

The goal is useful, not overwhelming.

Every resource should help someone make a decision, prepare for a conversation, or take a meaningful next action. We are building the library around those moments rather than publishing content for content's sake.

Coming into the library
Downloadable guides + workbooks

Practical tools that can be used independently or alongside coaching.

Career intelligence briefings

Market, restructuring, and hiring insights translated into career implications.

Employer playbooks

Tools for HR, leaders, and organizations managing workforce change.

Need more than a guide?

Sometimes the resource is the conversation.

If the situation is complicated, confidential, or high stakes, bring the context and we will look at the bigger picture.