Career Coaching

Explore your next career step with clarity and confidence.

Practical, personalised career coaching with Margaret Collins and Liz Kingston.

Is your career making you feel stuck?

Have you more to offer?

Career coaching gives you time to review your experience, identify what matters to you and explore practical next steps.

Margaret Collins and Liz Kingston can help you clarify your strengths, consider your options and explain what you bring to a role.

Career Coaching Overview

It starts with you

  • What do you do well?
  • What have you done well?
  • What exposure have you?
  • What do you want & by when?

Charting your route to success

  • How do you tell your story?
  • Exploring your Network
  • Expanding your Network
  • What is going on in the different worlds of work?

Finishing the Job

  • Connecting what you want with what is out there.
  • Targeting a specific Role
  • Applying & interviewing for success

2. Choose your appointment time

3. Get a new role or chart a clear course towards a more fulfilling career

We've coached 1000's of clients to succeed in their careers in Cork, Dublin and Ireland

Personalised Career Coaching That Gets Results

Your sessions can focus on career direction, a change of role, your CV and application approach, or preparing to communicate your experience more clearly.

The work starts with your goals and the support you want from coaching. Together with your assigned coach, you can identify practical next steps and questions to explore.

Three-Session Career Coaching Package

€550 for three hours, VAT inclusive.

Structured support over three 60-minute sessions to explore options, make decisions and build momentum. This package is for Career Coaching only.

For a focused question, a single one-hour Career Coaching session is €195, VAT inclusive.

View career sessions and packages

✓ Session 1 – Career Clarity & Personal Roadmap (1 Hour)

  • Life/ Work satisfaction assessment
  • Identify potential roles

✓ Session 2 – Career Strategy & Market Alignment (1 Hour)

  • Defining your pitch
  • What have you got that is in demand

✓ Session 3 – Momentum & Market Activation (1 Hour)

  • Who to speak to
  • How to approach them
  • Where to apply

Your assigned coach will tailor the focus of the sessions to your goals.

Feel You Have More to Offer

Many people stay in jobs they don’t like for far longer than they should and the impact can be very unfortunate. In our experience this is often because they don’t understand what else is out there.

Public and Private Sector

Explore roles and career options that fit your experience, strengths and goals.

Purpose at Work

Many candidates are feeling unfulfilled by much of the work they do and are looking to develop options to move beyond the transactional nature of the work they do for more purposeful engagements.

Competitive Advantage

Work with your assigned coach to articulate the experience and contribution that distinguish you.

LinkedIn

Many recruiters and hiring managers use LinkedIn as the first point of review. Ensuring that you have defined yourself as professionally as possible will have a greater impact. LinkedIn can also be a great network and outreach tool, allowing you to speak directly to decision makers.

Our Clients

Our clients range from local authorities to An Garda Síochána, and include top multinationals such as Google, NetApp, Twitter, and McAfee and we have placed senior executives and energy level staff with some of them. If an opportunity arises, we are happy to make a referral.

This diverse experience enables us to best advise clients on the future direction of their careers and industries.

With offices in Cork and Dublin, we provide career coaching to clients across Ireland and internationally – helping you make the best decisions for your future.

How Career Coaching Works: Four Simple Steps

1. Choose your session or package

Choose a single Career Coaching session or a three-session package, then select an appointment time. H-Training assigns your coach according to availability.

2. Review your career with us to get a better perspective

We review & rate you satisfactions levels across a range of key metric both from your life and career in order to get a clear perspective.

3. Define Your Options

Factoring in the various elements of your career (experience, education, salary expectation and the current circumstance) we partner with you to build a road map, selecting 2-3 ideal roles and pairing this up with what’s available.

4. Messaging & Outreach

We work carefully to tailor your message to potential employers via both your CV, LinkedIn bio & in interview. Why are you the most suitable candidate for a given role? Answering this is key to getting you the role.

Your Interview and Career Coaches

Margaret Collins

Margaret Collins

Lead Interview & Career Coach

Margaret is a senior HR professional and coach with more than 20 years’ experience across retail, biotech and healthcare. She specialises in capability and competency-based interview preparation, helping clients clarify their examples, build confidence and progress their careers.

Liz Kingston

Liz Kingston

Senior Interview & Career Coach

Liz is a senior HR consultant and coach with more than 20 years’ experience with leading multinationals. She helps clients identify their strengths, develop clear competency-based examples and approach interviews and their next career step with confidence. Liz is a member of CIPD and IITD, and an EQi and EQ360 coach.

Helen Hourican

Helen Hourican

Founder & Interview Coach

Helen founded H-Training in 1989 and has supported thousands of clients. Her experience spans interview preparation, learning and development, and mentoring across government departments and a wide range of organisations. Helen supports a select few clients each month with personalised interview coaching, bringing a warm, direct approach.

Book your coaching session. For enquiries about Helen’s limited availability, email info@htraining.net.

Frequently Asked Questions

Career coaching sessions last 60 minutes. A single session is €195, and the three-session package is €550 for three 60-minute sessions.

No. This is a partnership approach where we provide guidance and direction, but the onus is on our clients to support the work by making their own decisions and follow up.

No. People come to us at different stages of their journey. Some move directly into new roles, while others return to education or indeed secure a stepping stone role. We feel very strongly that it is important not to get hung up on any of the perceived obstacles. There is a way, we just need to find it.

Ideally you will have sent us a CV and a LinkedIn profile in advance of meeting. Any other ideas about what you do and don’t like about your career will also be helpful.

H-Training offers Interview Coaching and Career Coaching.

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