Courses

Career Hijack is all about helping you land the job you want. You’ll discover how to create a resume that grabs attention, write a cover letter that stands out, and tackle job hunting with smart, effective strategies.

Along the way, we’ll share tips on building connections, finding the right opportunities, and acing interviews. Whether you’re stepping into the workforce for the first time or looking to make a career move, our courses are designed to give you the confidence and skills to succeed in today’s job market.

Buy individual courses to sharpen specific skills, or unlock everything with full access and master the complete job search process from start to finish.

Mindset Matters

Most people start their job search in the wrong place. They update their resume, set up job alerts and start applying before they’ve dealt with what’s actually holding them back. This course starts where it should, with you. Before we touch a single practical task, we work through the emotional state you’re bringing into this process. The resentment, the self-doubt, the anxiety, the baggage from the last role. We name it, we set it aside, and we replace it with something you’ve chosen. The practical work comes next. It’s just a lot easier from here.

Six lessons. Each one builds on the last.

Identify the feelings that are quietly working against you and replace them with a mindset you’ve actually chosen, rather than one handed to you by a difficult experience.
Get specific about your strengths, your values and what you want from the next role. Not vague aspirations. Real criteria you can apply to every job you look at.
Set a realistic picture of what this process actually looks like. Timelines, numbers, rejection, silence. None of it will catch you off guard.
Put a simple accountability structure in place so you keep moving on the days when you don’t feel like it.
Every lesson includes a practical task and a downloadable resource you can use straight away.

What you build here doesn’t stay in the job search. Being able to talk about your strengths clearly and with conviction will serve you in interviews, yes, but also in every conversation where you need to make a case for yourself. Knowing your values and what kind of environment you actually thrive in means you stop wasting time on roles that look right on paper but won’t be right in practice. Most importantly, learning to manage your own state under pressure, to keep going when things go quiet, when rejections come in, when the process takes longer than you planned, is something most people never deliberately work on. You will. And you’ll use it well beyond this.

Resume Science

Most people treat their resume like a diary. A chronological record of everywhere they’ve been and everything they’ve done. The problem is that nobody reading it cares about your history. They care about one thing: can this person solve my problem? This course is built around that reality. You’ll learn to think about your resume the way a good advertiser thinks about an ad. One job. Grab attention. Make them want to know more.

Six lessons that cover how a resume actually gets read and what that means for how you write yours.

Understand the sole purpose of a resume and why most people get it wrong from the first line.
Learn what to include, what to cut, and why less is almost always more.
Do the deep work of uncovering your real achievements, not job descriptions dressed up as accomplishments, but specific outcomes with numbers attached.
Understand the psychology of writing for the reader, not for yourself, and why that shift changes everything.
Learn what makes a resume memorable in a stack of hundreds that all look the same.
See how the strongest resumes are structured, with real before and after examples across different industries.

Knowing how to position yourself on paper is a skill that doesn’t expire. Every time you go for a promotion, pitch for a project, or update your LinkedIn profile, you’re doing the same thing: making a case for your value in a limited amount of space and time.

The ability to identify your real achievements, put numbers to them and present them clearly is something most professionals never learn. You will. And it changes how you see your own career, not just how others see it.

Applying for Jobs and Networking

Having a good resume is only part of it. At some point you have to actually get it in front of people, and that requires a strategy. This course covers the full picture of how to run a job search properly. Where to look, how to use job boards and LinkedIn without wasting hours on either, how to work with recruiters, how to tap your network without it feeling awkward, and how to approach the whole thing like it’s a job in itself. Because it is. The people who treat it that way get results faster.

Seven lessons covering every channel available to you and how to use each one well.

Set up a KPI plan so your effort is measurable and your week has structure, not just activity.
Optimise your LinkedIn profile so recruiters can find you, not just the other way around.
Learn how to approach recruitment agencies, what they actually respond to and how to open a conversation that gets you remembered.
Use your existing network more effectively. Most people underestimate who they already know and what a single conversation can lead to.
Write cover letters that are worth sending. Most aren’t. The ones that work do one specific thing differently.
Record video applications that represent you well. More roles are requesting them and most candidates get it wrong.
Understand why treating the job search as a structured daily commitment changes everything about your results.

How you run a job search is how you run any important project. The discipline of setting targets, tracking activity, working multiple channels simultaneously and staying consistent when results are slow is a professional skill in its own right.

Most people also underinvest in their network until they need something from it. What you learn here about reaching out, keeping relationships warm and asking for help without making it transactional is useful far beyond this search.

The job market will change. You may need to do this again. Next time it will be faster.

Presentation, Articulation & Listening

Most people prepare for interviews by thinking about what they’re going to say. This course focuses on everything else. How you sound. How you move. How you listen. How you hold a room when there’s more than one person in it. These things are not soft extras. Decades of research show they directly influence hiring decisions, often more than the content of your answers. This course works through each element methodically, gives you the science behind why it matters, and then gives you the practice to make it feel natural.

Six lessons building from the inside out, starting with your voice and finishing with how to command a panel.

Get comfortable hearing yourself speak. Most people never do this deliberately, and it shows in interviews.
Learn how tone, melody and vocal warmth affect how engaged an interviewer stays, and how to use them deliberately.
Understand what your body is communicating before you say a word, backed by 70 years of research on non-verbal cues.
Develop active listening as a conscious skill, including how to read the room when an interviewer is losing interest and bring them back.
Use pace and pause strategically. Slowing down is one of the most underused tools in interview performance.
Handle panel interviews with confidence, including how to distribute attention, read multiple people simultaneously and direct answers to the whole room.

How you communicate is how you’re perceived. In every presentation, every difficult conversation, every meeting where you need to hold the room, the same skills apply.

Learning to control your pace under pressure stops you rushing when the stakes are high. Knowing how to read a room and adjust in real time is something most people spend careers trying to develop. Active listening, the real kind, makes you better at every professional relationship you’ll have.

None of this is interview technique. It’s communication at a level most people never train for.

Interview Planning & Execution

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Mastering Rejection

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Salary Negotiation & Growth Strategy

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