Self-Advocacy Coaching for Job Seekers

Build the interpersonal confidence necessary to advocate for yourself in interviews. Learn how to speak for your work.

Are You Struggling With Your Job Search?

Maybe you’re wary of self-promotion, often downplaying your contributions and hesitating to highlight your accomplishments in interviews.

…or maybe you’ve witnessed others land roles, even when you have more expertise or are the better fit.

…or maybe you lack the skills and confidence to advocate for yourself in interviews—and you’re ready to be noticed and rewarded for your strengths.

You’re ready to partner with someone to take control of the interview process and position yourself for success.

You’ve come to the right place.

I’ve helped 400+ leaders in 1:1 coaching engagements just like you.

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Clearly articulate what you want in your career and why you’re deserving of it
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Adapt your materials to what hiring managers and interviewers are looking for
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Infuse your personal brand and unique differentiators into interview responses
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Get tangible feedback on your interview responses

Past Clients Have:

Been hired at highly competitive Fortune 100 organizations, including all of the FAANG companies

Up-leveled their offer mid interview process

Landed jobs for roles they weren’t ‘officially’ qualified for

Found confidence and authenticity with their interview responses

Negotiated for higher salaries and total comp

Switched industries and roles through clear positioning of their transferable skills

My Approach

It all begins with building clarity.

Interviews are a marketing exercise - you must deeply understand the audience you’re targeting (the hiring manager) and the product you’re promoting (you). I use self-reflection and targeted exercises to help clients identify and focus on the right career paths. We also build a foundational understanding of your personal brand, including your core brand tenets, elevator pitch and differentiators. This enables us to strategically match your materials to the needs of your audience.

I challenge you to take ownership over your accomplishments and find the standout moments.

Many people don’t realize how impressive their career truly is. I help surface the memorable, standout elements of stories and incorporate storytelling best practices to help you differentiate yourself from other interviewers.

Rather than overwhelming you with endless interview prep, we focus on six core stories.

Most interview questions can be answered using six well-crafted stories. We focus our time shaping these robust stories and weaving your personal brand throughout. I provide custom-built materials to guide you step by step in crafting your stories. For non-standard interviews - such as case studies, presentations or highly specialized topics - we do more customized preparation aligned to company guidance.

To learn more about my approach to building core interview stories, click here.

Client Testimonials:

"Meredith's coaching was truly transformational in helping me prepare for the final stage interview of what I consider my dream job. Before Meredith's coaching, I struggled with interviewing, especially in the stressful final rounds. Meredith worked with me to help me discover my strengths, communicate them clearly in stories, and practice how I might approach difficult questions. I left the interview feeling confident, at-ease, and that the interviewers understood me as a candidate."

Senior Product Design Manager, DocuSign
"Meredith has helped me align my job search to what I really value in my career. Her coaching has allowed me to re-discover the spark needed to engage in a job search."

Senior UX Researcher, Meta
"Meredith is highly coveted as she is an expert. She gave me results - many interviews lined up every week - and I’m VERY proud of my current resume. Each person I have referred to Meredith immediately saw an increase in interviews and saw results too!

Senior EA, Salesforce
"Meredith's approach to coaching helped me break through my discomfort around defining my personal brand and after only a few sessions I had a clear understanding of my strengths and interests and how to effectively communicate my brand to further my career."

AVP, Client Marketing, Synchrony
"From day one, I felt motivated. Meredith is very much on your team and helped boost my confidence, which translated in my interviews. When preparing for an interview, she is able to draw the big picture and knows what to highlight in storytelling."

Program Manager, Google
"Meredith was my first audience to my stories in a sense and she gave me the confidence I needed! With Meredith’s help, I performed very well at my behavioral rounds and landed the role."

Senior Machine-Learning Engineer, Meta
"Meredith feedback pushed me to a new level! I never realize how rich a story can be before I had a session with her."

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Meet Meredith Benedict

It's wonderful to meet you and I hope to be a part of your self-advocacy journey. It can be difficult to choose the right coach, so I strongly encourage you to set up time for us to connect.

In the meantime, here are some details about me:

Nearly 20-year career leading product and marketing teams in Fortune 30 high-tech, high-growth companies
Experience leading large organizational changes, including launching equity-focused interventions for a 1,000+ person organization
Coached C-suite and VP-level executives with their internal and external communications as a marketing leader at Meta
MBA from UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
2,000+ hours of 1:1 coaching
700+ hours of coach training
400+ clients
Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the premier global body for coaches, the International Coaching Federation
Trained in Co-Active Training Institute coaching methods
Certified in 360-degree feedback tools