Career Camp
Prepare for Your Next Career Move: Join Our 2-Week Online Summer Camp
Next session starts July 7
CAMP OVERVIEW
Starting to consider what's next in your career? Career Camp is for you! Maybe you're feeling the pull toward a new opportunity, a different kind of organization, or a way of working that fits you better. This two-week camp will guide you through a process in how to think about and articulate your work, map your preferences, surface your assumptions, and explore new ways of showing up in the world. It offers a rare chance to reflect on: What do I want from work and how do I find it?
We’ve lead hundreds of hiring processes over the years—crafting job descriptions, reviewing resumes, and evaluating candidates for myriad roles. Recently we’ve been wondering: What would happen if we “inverted” our approach to aid job seekers? The answer: Career Camp! This program is designed to help you approach your search from the inside out—centered in your strengths, your values, and your unique story. Career Camp is about helping you find workplaces where that aligns so you can thrive.
FORMAT
LENGTH
EFFORT
100% ONLINE, HUMAN-LED
2 WEEKS
3-5 HRS/WK
“Working with Katrina was incredibly helpful in preparing me for the next phase of my work life… and I ultimately got the job I was aiming for!” —Melissa M.
HOW IT WORKS
Convenient Learning
Thought Partnership
Two 30-minute 1:1 coaching sessions with instructors. Real-time support as you apply what you’re learning in the camp.
Access the Career Camp videos, exercises, templates, and instructional materials when it’s convenient for you.
Additional Perspectives
Conversations with industry professionals exploring even more insights into how hiring really works.
USEFUL TOOLS
We’ve designed a new toolkit specifically for Career Camp participants. From our Greener Grass Scorecard to help you gut-check your next move, to the Dormant Ties Playbook for reconnecting with the network you already have, every tool is designed to be practical, personal, and useful.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Clarity and Inspiration. Explore a fresh approach to your job search. Start mapping out your preferences, assumptions, and areas of curiosity about how you want to work.
Practical Tools & Support. Our values-based tools help you explore your own strengths and frame your professional journey in a way that resonates with who you are today—not just who you’ve been or the roles you’ve held.
Real-Time Coaching & Expert Insights. Benefit from live 1:1 coaching sessions and conversations with industry professionals designed to help you refine your approach, personalize your strategy, and uncover hidden opportunities.
A New Mindset. Instead of simply fitting into job descriptions, learn to present yourself authentically and position your experiences as the strengths they are.
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CAMP SCHEDULE*
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The Landscape, Mental Models, and Values
Understand how career paths are changing.
Articulate your Knowledge, Skills, and Expertise (KSEs).
Identify your values, non-negotiables, and workplace/role dealbreakers.
Explore the Greener Grass Scorecard: A tool to help assess past, current, and future roles with more clarity.
Key Outcomes: Reframe your stories about work; Clarity on what you want and need.
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Resumes, Cover Letters, and Positioning
Create values-aligned resumes and materials.
Use A.I. tools to adapt your materials for new scenarios and opportunities.
Explore Empathy Mapping to better understand networks, hiring managers, and roles.
Reframe your experience in ways that make it easy for hiring managers to “see you in the role.”
Key Outcome: Strategic materials that feel authentic and congruent to you.
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Networking (that doesn’t crush your soul), Outreach, and Interviewing
Practice telling your story in interviews, networking, and casual conversations.
Activate your Dormant Ties. Reconnect with former colleagues and networks in ways that feel relational not transactional.
Understand common hiring manager mindsets, timeframes, and biases.
Interviewing as a two-way street.
Key Outcomes: Clearer, more confident ways to talk about you and your work; Authentic network reactivation; Better grasp of what's really going on behind the scenes in hiring; and, an Empowered, reciprocal approach to interviews.
*Schedule is subject to change.
“Katrina and Tim are amazing instructors. I left feeling inspired and motivated to implement what I learned… an amazing and insightful experience!” —Daljeet M.
WHO SHOULD ENROLL
➕ Professionals who are starting to think about their next move.
➕ Those feeling stuck or unsure about how to present themselves in a rapidly changing job market.
➕ Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the hiring process and how to better navigate it.
➕ Candidates who want real, practical advice and frameworks to take their job search to the next level.
“Katrina and Tim distinguished themselves beyond all expectations.” —David D.
MEET THE INSTRUCTORS
Katrina Donald
Tim Cynova
Designed and led hundreds of values-driven recruitment and hiring processes.
CHRO/SPHR and organizational strategist with 20+ years leading hiring, talent development, and professional growth across nonprofits and start-ups.
Faculty teaching hiring and organizational design for thriving workplace practitioners.
Certified recruiter, coach, and strategist with 20 years helping individuals and teams expand capacity for growth, leadership, and change.
Built adaptive hiring and leadership development systems that help individuals thrive in complex, evolving environments.
Data-informed, curiosity-driven approach that supports job seekers.
Career Camp leverages our years of hiring expertise and insights, and converts it into an actionable strategy for you. Instead of shaping your search around a predefined set of requirements, and the same dusty old job search steps, we help you get curious about your work history, think creatively about the kinds of opportunities that appeal to you, think critically—and creatively—about what a fit for you might look like right now, and reframe your approach to finding your next role.
Career Camp is about experimenting, iterating, and taking a flexible, fun, and values-aligned approach to your career journey.
As longtime advocates for candidate care, we know hiring and job searching are deeply relational, even though power dynamics and legal constraints often make it feel otherwise. That’s why we’ve reverse-engineered our tools: to unpack what’s happening behind the scenes, and help you show up with clarity, confidence, and agency.
We also understand the emotional side of transitions—the stress, the uncertainty, the hope. That’s why Career Camp doesn’t just focus on tactics. It’s designed to reframe outdated ideas about career paths, normalize growth and change, and support you in crafting a next chapter that feels like yours.
Career Camp is about discovery—and we’re excited to go on the adventure with you!