Executive Career Advisory
for Professionals 50+
Your experience isn't the problem. Your job search strategy may be. Private 1-on-1 advisory for executives and professionals 50+ — from someone who has spent decades on the hiring side of the table.
“The hiring market has fundamentally changed. The rules that built your career may not be the rules that will advance it.”
Today's hiring process looks very different from the one many experienced professionals encountered earlier in their careers. Technology now plays a major role in how candidates are found, screened and evaluated.
LinkedIn is still a primary networking tool, but many other options are now available. AI has transformed the job search. Resumes are searched and reviewed differently. Recruiters increasingly source candidates rather than simply waiting for applications. And competition for senior-level positions can be significant.
For professionals with 20, 25 or 30+ years of experience, the challenge isn't simply having the right qualifications. It's knowing how to position that experience for today's market.
That's where many accomplished professionals get stuck. They continue using a job search strategy that worked earlier in their careers—but the market around them has changed.
Decades on the Other Side of the Hiring Table
My approach to executive career coaching and job search advisory comes from the hiring side of the table. For more than 30 years, I've worked in recruiting, human resources and executive leadership, evaluating candidates, counseling executives and experienced professionals, and making hiring decisions. Today, I remain directly involved in the hiring market as the Founding Partner of AlediumHR, a national healthcare recruiting firm.
Over the course of my career, I've evaluated thousands of candidates and counseled thousands of executives and experienced professionals on hiring, career and professional decisions. My experience includes senior HR and recruiting leadership with major organizations, including Caterpillar, Sodexo and The Home Depot. When I evaluate a resume, LinkedIn profile or job search strategy, I'm looking at it through the same lens employers and recruiters use every day.
Ways I Can Help
Different stages of an executive job search call for different kinds of help.
Executive Job Search Strategy
$149
A private 60-minute assessment of your positioning, resume, LinkedIn profile and overall job-search approach.
Explore the Strategy Session →Executive Strategy Implementation
$795
Available after the Executive Job Search Strategy Session for clients who want hands-on help implementing the recommendations, including resume, LinkedIn and positioning changes.
Explore Strategy Implementation →Executive Transition Advisory
$2,495 | Employer Sponsored
Private, employer-sponsored 90-day career transition support for experienced executives navigating a departure or restructuring.
Explore Executive Transition Advisory →This Is for You If...
If the experience is there but interviews are not, the problem may be how that experience is being positioned, presented or interpreted by employers.
A transition can create pressure to start applying immediately. A clearer positioning and search strategy can help make the next move more deliberate.
Recruiting and hiring have changed significantly. A search approach that worked earlier in a career may not reflect how employers and recruiters identify candidates today.
Experience can be an advantage, but how that experience is framed matters. The goal is to make depth of experience feel relevant to what an employer needs today.
Sometimes the issue is not the experience itself. It is how clearly employers can connect that experience to the problems they need someone to solve now.
The assessment comes from decades of evaluating candidates, leading recruiting and HR organizations, making hiring decisions and remaining active in today's hiring market.
Frequently Asked Questions
The Executive Job Search Strategy Session is designed for experienced professionals and executives, particularly those 50+, who want an experienced hiring-side perspective on their positioning, resume, LinkedIn profile and overall job-search strategy. It can be useful whether someone is actively searching, preparing for a transition or simply wants to understand how the market is likely to view their experience.
After the session, I provide a personalized Executive Career Strategy Brief with the priorities and actions we discussed, along with a 30-day action plan. The $149 Strategy Session is a complete standalone service. Clients who want my hands-on help implementing those recommendations can choose Executive Strategy Implementation, an optional 30-day engagement available after the Strategy Session for $795.
Executive Strategy Implementation is for clients who have completed the Strategy Session and want help putting the recommendations into practice. The 30-day engagement includes hands-on work with executive positioning, resume revision and rewriting, LinkedIn headline, About and positioning changes, and alignment between the resume, LinkedIn profile and overall search strategy. It includes two consolidated review rounds.
No. The Strategy Session is designed to provide meaningful value on its own. Executive Strategy Implementation is entirely optional and is available for clients who would rather have my hands-on help making the recommended changes.
Executive Transition Advisory is a private, employer-sponsored 90-day engagement for experienced executives navigating a layoff, restructuring, position elimination, negotiated departure or other career transition. It combines individual advisory sessions with executive positioning, resume and LinkedIn implementation, job-search strategy, recruiter and networking strategy, interview preparation, opportunity evaluation and offer guidance.
Executive Transition Advisory is designed as an employer-sponsored service at $2,495 per executive. An organization can provide it as part of a severance agreement, leadership transition, restructuring or other employment separation without placing the executive into a large standardized outplacement program.
Yes. The advisory relationship is between the executive and me. The sponsoring employer may receive confirmation that the executive has enrolled and is participating, but the substance of our advisory conversations, job-search activity and career decisions remains confidential.
No. MikeMaffei.com provides executive career advisory and job-search strategy services. I remain directly involved in the hiring market through my work with AlediumHR, but these advisory services do not promise interviews, job placement or employment. My role is to help clients understand how employers and recruiters are likely to evaluate them and build a stronger strategy for navigating the market.
What Clients Are Saying
Experienced professionals face unique challenges in today's job market. Here's what clients say about taking a different approach.
"Thanks, Mike, for all your help and assistance in my job search. I now recognize that I was approaching the job market the same way I had always done, and it wasn't working. You gave me a much clearer strategy for positioning my experience and focusing my search."
"Mike understands what experienced professionals like me over 50 are facing in today's job market. His advice was real-world, not some textbook garbage. He was practical, direct, and based on his real executive experience. It was refreshing, to say the least, to hear things I hadn't even thought about."
"I had been job searching for over a year, with very few replies or even interviews. I knew my age was a factor, but after speaking with Mike, it was obvious that I was positioning myself entirely the wrong way. I know there is age discrimination, but I also know what I can provide an employer. Mike helped me to realign my search, and now I am employed in an even better position than before."
Client names and certain identifying details have been withheld to protect the confidentiality of professionals conducting private career searches.
Explore the Executive Job Search Strategy
Explore a strategic approach to executive career advisory and how experienced professionals 50+ can strengthen their positioning, strategy, and approach to today's job market.
Executive Career Advisory for Professionals 50+
One-page Executive Job Search Strategy Session overview
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Whether you need clarity on your own job search, hands-on help implementing your strategy, or private transition support for an executive in your organization, there is a clear place to start.