John Wilson CHRP is a seasoned Career Transition professional and coach with over 15 years of experience providing effective outplacement consultation and coaching to a diverse corporate client base and their terminating employees.
As President of John T. Wilson & Associates, John provides comprehensive one-on-one career transition support programs to clients at the mid/senior management, professional and executive levels.
His direct industry experience incorporates working with corporate clients from the Canadian Banking and Trust industry, and the Pharmaceutical, Insurance, Electronics, Mining, Funds Management, Telecommunications and Real Estate sectors. He has also done work with the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
Additionally, John runs a successful retail practice providing highly tailored one-on-one career transition support to those individuals currently looking for career advancement, redirection of their careers towards something more in alignment with their skill sets, or with a need to find a position offering a better work/life balance.
John is a Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP), is an active member of the Human Resources Professional Association of Peel Region, and is a past Board member of the Association of Career Professionals International (Toronto Chapter).
John has a passion for “high touch” career transition work and is considered by his corporate and individual clients to be a results-oriented professional who consistently demonstrates best practices in relationship management, with a clear focus on adding value to his clients. He enables his individual clients to realize growth opportunities on both a business and personal level.
Typical Career Transition Topics Covered For Individual Clients
- Current Marketplace Trends
- Self-Assessment
- Identifying your Strategic Advantage
- Targeting your search in the marketplace
- Contract assignments and other Entrepreneurial opportunities
- Conducting Research on companies and industries
- Developing an effective, professional resume
- Writing high impact covering letters
- Job search methodologies including proper allocation of time to each
- Working with Contingent and Retained Search Firms
- Mastering the art of networking
- Developing your marketing plans
- Understanding the five styles of interviewing
- Mock interviews
- Assessing and negotiating the offer(s) of employment
- The first 90 days on the new job
Typical Career Transition Topics Covered For Corporate Clients
- Outplacement Planning (timing, numbers impacted, location(s), preparing managers for the termination announcement )
- Insight on Severance Packages
- Dealing with the survivors
- Providing references for employees being terminated
Prior Career Experience
Prior to his Career Transition work, John worked in Human Resources, holding progressively more senior HR positions at Bank of Montreal and Montreal Trust Company supporting both their domestic and international operations as a business partner and internal consultant. He was a seasoned HR strategist, business advisor and mentor with particular expertise in Recruitment, Employee Relations, Staffing and Talent Management. He also has expertise in Role Profiling and Competency Model building.
DSG area of Responsibility
Based in Mississauga Ont., John has responsibility for providing Career Transition support services to DSG clients in Mississauga, Oakville, Burlington and other locations in the GTA West.
Locations
When working one-on-one with individual clients John utilizes professional office space in conveniently located Corporate Centres in Mississauga and Burlington.
Contact
John T. Wilson & Associates
Telephone : 905-812-9263
Cell: 647-272-7359
E-Mail:
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