Experienced tutor in Life coaching in Berkeley, Julie offers private lessons tailored to your needs.

TESTIMONIAL: “Upon meeting Julie at one of her speaking engagements earlier this year, Julie was immediately encouraging and helpful i.e. she is in the right line of work as we say as an experienced and competent transition coach!

Every subsequent conversation I’ve had with her has been extremely helpful as well! Would I recommend her as a transition coach? No question!”

TESTIMONIAL: “It was a pleasure working with Julie. Julie is highly knowledgeable, methodical, and results oriented. Her experience and knowledge of the high-tech firms and their hiring practices clearly shows during conversations with her. I found that Julie has an amazing ability to synthesize a situation quickly and think out-of-box to come up with solutions. I was particularly impressed by the clever ways she suggested to doing research to get nuggets of information in any field. Julie is a good judge of people and situations. I respect her insight and judgment. I thoroughly enjoyed working with Julie, and benefited from her counsel. I would recommend Julie highly to anyone looking for career counseling”

TESTIMONIAL: “Finding myself unemployed after 26 years, it became apparent that my job hunting skills were dated and required work. I worked with LHH for three month with limited results, During the 5 months before working with Julie I had 4 calls and one serious interview. Julie helped improve my resume, prepared me effectively to interview, and hone my stories to meet the expectations of the recruiter, interviewers and manager. My improved resume and LinkedIn profile began drawing attention after the first week. Most of all, Julie prepared me to compete in today’s job market by being emotionally prepared to land the right position. I recommend Julie because in addition to her wealth of Knowledge in the recruiting business she truly cares about helping her clients achieve their career goals.”

TESTIMONIAL: “I have been working with Julie Kramer on a weekly basis for about 2 months and I couldn’t be happier with her insights and advice as my career counselor. She has helped me by uncovering job opportunities that had not occurred to me. She has given me objective feedback about what works in finding a job and what doesn’t. In particular, she has helped with my resume, my Linkedin profile and most importantly, she has helped me with interview questions and skills. She has helped clarify goals and tactics and even made 3 introductions to potential employers. I am very pleased with her services and would recommend her to anyone that is looking for a job or career change.”

TESTIMONIAL: “I successfully worked with Julie to prepare for a major career transformation. Working with Julie, she coached me through my challenges involving geographic relocation and industry change. She also helped me evaluate and refine my career strategy and helped re-brand my experience for the market. I recommend Julie as her deep understanding of the local job market and experience working with other executive level clients leads to results.”

TESTIMONIAL: “Julie is a multi faceted coach with a keen ability to use her multitude of skills to support people in transition. She has a deep understanding of people’s inner limitations and how to successfully unlock one’s true potential so that they can bring forward their best self. I recommend Julie for anyone that is ready to get unstuck and put their best foot forward in their vocational endeavors!”

TESTIMONIAL: “I’ve appreciated Julie’s help and guidance and all of her varied skills and services. I’ve benefited from the entire experience…. Her strength and guidance have been of immense help.
I highly recommend Julie to anyone going through a transition in their lives.”

TESTIMONIAL: “I have nothing but the highest recommendation for Julie Kramer for her expert consulting services offered through Roadspring. I came to Julie somewhat lost and very stuck in my job search. Julie was tough, professional and very efficient in her approach. In just a short time, I was re-branded, developed a new website and career focus. In short order I partnered with like minded entrepreneurs and have launched a very successful start-up. Julie is the best!”

TESTIMONIAL: “Julie will help you up your game. She can offer invaluable insight and help you focus so your goals professional are attainable. If you aspire to achieve greater things in your career, I recommend you contact Julie and let her guide you (as she has many others – including myself). I recommend her highly.”

TESTIMONIAL: “Work with Julie Kramer. You will see results. She is a master in helping people achieve their transition goals. I set my sights on a new job within 3 months. Julie helped me do it through “the hidden job market”. I will work with her again to accelerate reaching my future goals.”

TESTIMONIAL: “After over 10 years in my first job, I felt that I was ready for a change. Julie was recommended highly by close friends of mine who had hired her before with good results. As a long-time insider in the HR and recruiting space, Julie knows the ins and outs of the Bay Area high technology sector. She quickly helped me focus my resume on the skills and background that would help me get the type of job I was looking for, and then helped coach me through the unfamiliar hiring process of phone screenings and on-site interviews. Best of all, during our bi-weekly meetings she provided me with her wise perspective and advice as I refreshed my interviewing skills. Within a few weeks of updating my resume I was getting more on-site interviews than I could handle, and shortly thereafter I proceeded to get multiple offers in exactly the field I was looking to work in. Julie gets my highest possible recommendation.”

TESTIMONIAL: “Julie is a master transition coach, who walks you through both the internal and external roadmaps for change. The Roadspring program gets you unstuck and deals with all aspects of career change including: Presentation Skills, Interviewing, Networking, Tapping into the Hidden Job
Market, Resume upgrade, and Closing the deal. I gained a great deal by working with Julie because she knows insider tips on how the job market works. Further, she conducted very effective mock interviews with me and critiqued my answers. She coached me to present myself and negotiate competitively in ways that will last me through my whole career. I am very happy with the job I landed, at a much better salary than I expected!”

TESTIMONIAL: “Ms. Kramer understands the latest practices in a wide variety of market niches (high technology, software, client/server, mainframe networking, internet, marketing, advertising, on-line publishing, multimedia and more). Julie really takes the time to understand the technology and she’s pretty savvy technically so she can talk to these people intelligently and gets them excited. She’s very bright… She’s quite helpful… in advising…and addressing concerns.”

TESTIMONIAL: “Ms. Kramer is on top of the market, what is being asked and what is being offered. What I find quite helpful is that she keeps a pulse on what’s happening at other companies, competitors and the industry, too.”

TESTIMONIAL: “I wanted to present myself in a more compelling and executive fashion, but realized from Julie’s coaching that I needed some new language and branding. Ms. Kramer helped me develop my values statement and to explore value conflicts with others I work with. She coached me to brand myself, so I secured a good paying job in a short time. Her program is comprehensive and high quality and affordable. I would highly recommend her.”

TESTIMONIAL: “I signed up with the Julie’s coaching program and through this program was able to bring new vision and strategy to my role as a COO. If I had not done this, I have no doubt I would still be struggling. Julie coaches you to understand your values, develop your vision and brand yourself in new ways. After doing this, my self-esteem increased. Everything changed. This method works, I recommend hiring her.”

~John M, VP Marketing

TESTIMONIAL: “Julie completely revised my standing in the marketplace. By turning my resume into an executive brand document which got serious attention, I was able to get multiple interviews in a down market. Her interview preparation, enabled me to come in as a finalist for a number of different kinds of positions. She also taught me a lot about how to negotiate with employers. I was changing markets so I had to translate my skills into the language of my new market. Julie’s personal coaching program is outstanding, and it got me my job.”

TESTIMONIAL: “Julie’s professional coaching program is awesome! I was struggling with difficult Stakeholder conflicts in my company, and Julie coached me to resolve the conflicts between groups and develop my management style at the same time. This jump-started my career back into high gear. While I was getting coached on these issues, I was able to build up my team with a group of talented people and my role in marketing expanded in great ways.”