Career Guidance with Hina Naaz

this is essentially a full career-coaching framework, where the focus goes beyond getting the next job and looks at your longer-term career direction, positioning, and growth.

Given your goal of making a meaningful career move, I’d structure the support like this:

1. Career Direction & Planning

• Clarify your short-, medium-, and long-term career goals
• Assess whether your current role is moving you toward those goals
• Identify potential career paths and transition points
• Build a practical 6–12–24 month career roadmap

2. Skills Assessment & Development

• Assess your current technical, business, leadership, and functional skills
• Identify strengths, gaps, and transferable skills
• Prioritize the skills that will have the greatest impact on your target role
• Create a focused learning/development plan rather than collecting certifications without a clear purpose

3. Market & Industry Insights

• Research current market expectations for your target roles
• Identify emerging skills, role requirements, and hiring trends
• Compare your profile against the expectations of the market
• Identify industries and companies where your experience is particularly relevant

4. Job Search Strategy

• Define the roles you should target
• Optimize your resume and LinkedIn profile
• Develop a targeted application strategy
• Identify networking and referral opportunities
• Build a system for tracking and managing applications

5. Professional Networking

• Build a strategic network rather than simply increasing connection numbers
• Identify people who can provide insight, referrals, mentorship, or introductions
• Develop outreach messages that feel authentic and professional
• Strengthen your professional visibility and personal brand

6. Interview Coaching

• Prepare for behavioral, functional, leadership, and role-specific questions
• Develop strong STAR stories from your actual experience
• Conduct mock interviews
• Review your answers for clarity, structure, confidence, and impact
• Prepare a compelling “Tell me about yourself” and career-transition narrative

7. Compensation & Negotiation

• Understand market compensation for the target role and location
• Evaluate the complete package—not just base salary
• Prepare your negotiation strategy
• Develop responses to compensation expectations and competing-offer questions
• Approach negotiations based on market evidence and the value you bring

The bigger objective

The goal shouldn't simply be:

“Help me get a job.”

It should be:

Current Position → Career Story → Target Role → Skills Gap → Market Positioning → Networking → Interview → Offer → Negotiation → Long-Term Growth

That creates a much more structured approach to career development and makes each activity—resume building, learning, networking, interviewing, and negotiation—serve the same career objective.