Laila Atallah 🌿
Laila Atallah, a career expert of over 15 years, has gained extensive experience working with individuals, schools, non-profits, and corporations. She is known for her innovative and holistic approach to career counseling that involves considering all aspects of a person's life, such as family needs, finances, spirituality, values, strengths, passions, personality, and life goals.
As an alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley, Laila has designed and delivered over 150 classes and retreats focused on career and personal development. Her work in career counseling has featured collaborating with corporate clients, including Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, AMD, and Kaiser Electronics when she worked in outplacement with Private Industry Councils. Furthermore, she has published her work in two resume books by popular expert Yana Parker and taught courses as an adjunct faculty member at the Centerpoint Institute for Career and Life Renewal.
At Career Counseling with a Twist, Laila offers numerous career-counseling services. Some of her career counseling services include designing a career transition strategy, discovering a person's perfect career fit by identifying their passions, strengths, interests, personality, and work style preferences, researching career options alongside overcoming any inner barriers to moving forward, figuring out post-retirement game plans, and designing a creative strategy for supplemental income or transitioning back to work full-time.
Laila also offers job search strategies. She helps create a job search strategy and personal brand while providing help with research, "transition jobs," resumes, interview coaching, and salary negotiation. Additionally, she helps individuals get a new job by determining what else they're qualified and interested in doing, designing a networking strategy, and creating an "exit plan." Further services she provides are conducting in-depth research on job openings, companies, industries, and general economic information; clarifying, strategizing, and learning to communicate a person's most marketable skills and accomplishments; strategizing an interviewing "angle" and developing succinct, content-rich responses; building self-confidence and establishing professional value, and creating a targeted resume that captivates prospective employers.
