Professional Consulting

Ready for professional consulting assistance? Sharon McCormick is delighted to offer you a free 30-minute phone consultation to crystallize your vision for your company or organization.

She has 15+ years of successful experience as a comprehensive Career Expert, HR Specialist, Workplace EAP Trainer, and Writer, working with management to design, develop, and strengthen human capital management strategies in the corporate, federal, higher education, and non-profit settings.

Consulting Services

Career Services Programs Consulting

Are you starting a Career Coaching, Career Counseling, Career Development, or Career Services Program for your company, organization, or school?

Sharon can collaborate with you and provide direction on creating a world-class career program based on best practices, current research, and cutting-edge tools and trends. She has a proven track record of success in developing on-site academic, corporate, for-profit, and non-profit career centers, and in establishing and leading new Career Services Departments and programs.

She has taught and created career courses at 6 different colleges and universities, and worked as the Director of Career and Job Placement Services for students at a proprietary college, where she placed each student in a job upon graduation amidst tremendous competition from other more established colleges. She also wrote and taught career classes at a for-profit Learning Center in Tampa, Florida for 12 years. She has worked with all levels of employees from high school students to senior executives.

Sharon's work with placing senior executives into the top Federal jobs gives her valuable insights into building successful leaders, which she incorporates into Career Coaching, Career Counseling, Leadership Development, and in planning career programs for her clients and students. With 15+ years of career planning curriculum development expertise, she has a wide range of popular resources for any budget.

Sharon developed and taught successful career and workplace classes for 3 years at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and she presented Career information at the University of Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina. She also served as a Career Counselor Volunteer at the Compass Center in Chapel Hill.

Sharon consults with corporations and non-profit organizations and achieve desired results on time and under budget. She volunteer extensively in the community as a Career Expert.

Human Resources Consulting and Areas of Expertise

Job candidate assessment and selection
Assessing job fit
Behavioral interviewing
Career coaching, counseling and development
On-site career coaching program creation, management and evaluation
Curriculum development
Leadership development
EAP topics, curriculums, and trainings
Placement and job promotions
Outplacement
Recruitment
Succession planning

Sharon's Consulting Clients

Sharon's Human Resources and/or Career Services Consulting clients include:

H2 Workforce
InStepp.org
Talent Curve
WakeMed

Career Tests

CAPS / COPS
Carlson Learning Profile
360 Feedback - the entire suite of 360 assessments from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)
CPI 260 Coaching Report for Leaders and Client Feedback Report
DISC Profile
FIRO-B Profile for Organizations
Harrington O' Shea
Keirsey Temperament Scale
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Qualified Administrator
Self-Directed Search
SIGI+ Computer Software
Strengths Finder 2.0
Strong-Career Enrichment and Career Transition Report
The Adult Basic Education Test (TABE)
Thomas Kilmann / 360 Feedback
Wonderlic Test Certified Administrator
Work/Life Values Checklist

Sharon has numerous other career and employment assessments available depending upon client/company needs.

Keynote / Public Speaking / Training

As a top-rated Employee Assistance Trainer for the world's largest Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for ten years, Sharon trained employees of Fortune 500 companies, Federal, State, City and County Governments. She has created curriculums for and taught at 6 different colleges and universities, and she has had the pleasure of volunteering with and speaking to diverse community groups and organizations for 15+ years. Sharon would be delighted to partner with you to speak at your organization and get the results you desire for your audience. Contact Sharon for details.