Built for ICF-credentialed coaches and outplacement providers
Replace 3-4 sessions of unstructured discovery with grounded assessment data. Career Match shows same-field reframe, adjacent-field pivot, fresh-start trajectories. The coach facilitates; the platform surfaces patterns.
JobCannon for Mid-Career Pivot Coaching serves ICF-credentialed coaches working with 35-50 mid-career professionals, executive transition firms, and corporate outplacement providers (LHH, Right Management, Randstad RiseSmart). The platform delivers assessment data — not advice — accelerating coaching engagements by replacing 3-4 sessions of unstructured discovery with grounded intake the coach uses session 1. ICF Core Competencies are not displaced; they accelerate because coach and client start with grounded data rather than blank-page exploration. Mid-career pivots have distinct characteristics — significant skill accumulation, embedded financial commitments, identity attachment to current field — and Career Match against the 2,536-career knowledge graph shows three trajectories the coach explores: same-field reframing, adjacent-field pivot, fresh-start. Outplacement providers embed the platform under partnership tier as standard cohort onboarding. Boutique MCC/PCC practices and volume cohort coaches both use the same platform with different deployment patterns. C-suite-adjacent transitions (VPs and senior directors at 45-55 pivoting into executive roles, board work, advisory, non-profit leadership) supported via Big Five and EQ leadership-readiness grounding. Free for individual coaching clients; coach dashboard runs on Coach tier ($79/mo) or scoped under partnership for outplacement firms and executive coaching practices.
Structured intake, three trajectories, ICF-aligned methodology preservation.
Capability inventory, identity baseline, pivot-pathway exploration.
For a coaching practice running 60 mid-career engagements per year
Individual coaching client access stays free. Coach dashboard runs on Coach tier ($79/mo) supporting unlimited active clients. Outplacement firms and executive coaching practices scope under partnership tier for multi-coach deployment.
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For independent coaches and therapists
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For 200+ person companies
All plans currently activated manually via the contact form — we review each request within 24 hours and provision access the same day. Self-serve checkout coming once we've heard from the first wave of teams.
Tell us your coaching practice model (boutique, volume cohort, outplacement embed), your typical client volume, and your ICF credential level. We respond with a deployment pattern within two business days.
JobCannon delivers assessment data, not advice. The client completes the battery and brings the structured output to coaching sessions where the coach uses ICF-aligned methodology to facilitate the client's own meaning-making. The platform does not tell clients what to do with the data; it surfaces patterns the coach and client explore together. ICF Core Competencies (Listening Actively, Evoking Awareness, Facilitating Client Growth) are not displaced — they are accelerated because the coach and client start session 1 with grounded data rather than spending the first three sessions on unstructured discovery. Coaches retain full responsibility for the coaching engagement.
The 35-50 pivot has distinct characteristics versus early-career exploration or late-career transition. Mid-career pivoters typically arrive with significant skill accumulation, embedded financial commitments (mortgage, children, elder-care obligations), and identity attachment to their current field. Career Match against the 2,536-career graph shows three trajectories the coach explores: same-field reframing where the client stays in the field with structural changes, adjacent-field pivot where prior skills transfer with retraining, and fresh-start trajectories where the client commits to a multi-year transition. The platform does not rank these; the coach and client decide which trajectory the engagement targets.
Outplacement providers (LHH, Right Management, Randstad RiseSmart, Lee Hecht Harrison legacy work) typically deliver multi-week programmes for departing executives and senior individual contributors. JobCannon serves as the assessment-intake layer in week one, replacing the unstructured discovery phase that historically consumed two to three sessions. Outplacement coaches use the structured output to accelerate into action-planning by week two. Some outplacement firms embed the platform under partnership tier and provide it as the standard assessment layer for all assigned clients; others recommend it as the client's pre-engagement preparation.
The platform does not pretend to handle the emotional layer; that is the coach's work. What the platform does is reduce the cognitive load that often blocks emotional access — when a client is buried in "I do not even know where to start" overwhelm, structured Career Match data gives concrete entry points the client can react to (yes/no, this resonates/this does not). The reactive process is emotionally easier than generating possibilities from blank-page. Coaches report that clients move faster into authentic exploration once the data is surfaced; the coaching work then deepens around the emotional and identity layer the data revealed.
Both. ICF MCC and PCC coaches running boutique high-touch practices use the platform as a structured intake for new clients before session 1. Volume-focused coaches running group-cohort programmes (10-30 clients per cohort) use the platform as the standard cohort onboarding tool, which lets the coach run more cohorts in parallel without sacrificing assessment depth. The platform is the same; the deployment pattern differs. Coach-tier pricing supports both models without requiring per-client licensing fees.
C-suite executive coaching (CEO, board-prep, C-1 level) typically focuses on leadership effectiveness and stakeholder management rather than career direction; the platform is less central to that engagement type. Where the platform is central is the C-suite-adjacent transition — VPs and senior directors at 45-55 pivoting either upward into executive roles or sideways into board work, advisory, or non-profit leadership. Big Five and EQ outputs ground the leadership-readiness conversation; Career Match against advisory and board-eligible career profiles informs the realistic landscape. Some executive coaching practices use the platform specifically for this senior-transition cohort.