we help leaders at all stages of their careers realize their professional goals…

we provide private career services to high level and high potential executives who desire more choices and control over their career outcomes which leads to greater professional and personal rewards.

services

initial career or job search strategy session

Launch or reset your career by defining where you want to go and how to get there. Prepare for a 90-minute session, set your ultimate professional goals, and determine the road map with Janice Waterman as your guide. This session is perfect for a job search launch or reset or a career launch or course correction. Service includes a detailed strategy post-session.

complete job search preparation

Plan and execute your job search with waterman hurst. Our services facilitate landing the industry, company, and role you desire. Services include your job search plan, resume, profile, cover letter, interview preparation, and job search coaching during the preparation process.

job search coaching

Collaborate with waterman hurst throughout your search and experience ongoing and on-call coaching to accelerate and win. Nail interviews, drive offers, and negotiate an ideal package during your next career move.

professional branding

Hire waterman hurst to guide you through your personal brand development. Identify and clarify your professional brand, story, and image. Enhance your presentation, visibility, influence, and image with clarity and consistency to boost your career.

job search marketing

Partner with waterman hurst to get more leads, interviews, and networking introductions. Available for repeat clients.

career coaching

Hire a seasoned expert to guide you to establish career goals, define and execute the steps to prioritize, resolve, overcome and advance to achieve your goals.

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about waterman hurst

Every client has unique goals – sometimes a new challenge, job, role or industry, sometimes a rebranding to be seen in a new way, maybe they seek a higher level of recognition and reward, and some clients desire an entirely new career.

waterman hurst has evolved to become a laser- focused, nimble private service provider. we have retained only the four most highly valued and successful services and improved delivery to accommodate leaders ever busier lives and the new ways in which they want their services delivered.

Janice Waterman, along with a very selective team of consultants and advisors, take great pride in our client’s track record of success and the results of our efforts to provide every client the highest level of return on their investment.

janice waterman

In 2001, I founded waterman hurst, a groundbreaking company that has provided high-level private career and end-to-end job search services for C-level, senior executive level, and high-potential executives for over twenty-four years. waterman hurst has provided services to hundreds of C-level and other senior executives, facilitating the achievement of their career goals, which often included a successful job search.

Prior to founding waterman hurst, I was a corporate officer within three global public companies with both general management and broad functional responsibility. I recruited officers and CEOs, often with game-changing results. I was a top-five earner and recognized by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the top ten highest-paid women in Silicon Valley. I graduated from HBS’ TGMP and earned a BA from UCD and an M.S. in Career Development from CSUH.

we rate ourselves by our clients success and satisfaction

faq

Q: Who are your clients?
A: We serve C-level executives, including CEOs and Board Directors, as well as next level, advancing and emerging leaders. Our clients generally earn 300K plus and a great majority work within, run, or sit on the Boards of companies ranging from $50M to $3B.
Q: Who do you work for and who pays your fees?
A: In the great majority of engagements, our private clients select us, we work only for them, and they pay our fees.

We do not accept fees from employers nor their agents, which includes client referrals to investment firms, Private Equity firms, Venture Capital firms, Retained Executive Search firms. There shall be no fees paid by employers nor their agents to Waterman Hurst when our client accepts an operating or board position. 

Q: What is the main reason leaders hire Waterman Hurst?
A: Our clients come to us with specific career goals and have decided they want to conduct a job and/or board search to achieve those goals, either externally or internally. Repeat clients hire us when they want to obtain a promotion or better compensation package, have more career options and visibility, improve their executive presence, improve their relationships at work, relocate geography, etc. We build relationships that span entire careers and often help clients through several career challenges and career moves.
Q: What if I have been fired or laid off. May I hire your firm?
A: Yes, everyone has career setbacks. Getting fired is the most challenging setback. A great majority of our clients that hire us when they are in-between, move on to even more successful careers. We have a specific set of services to help leadership clients that are in-between.