Empowering Your Next Career Move
Our Mission
Whether you're a recent high school or college graduate, or navigating a career change, we help you find your path with expert counseling and guidance on choosing a career, developing your resume and LinkedIn profile, leveling up your networking, and launching a strong job search.
Take Control of Your Career with Confidence
Career Pivot 123 LLC is dedicated to helping individuals like you successfully navigate life’s most important career transitions. Whether you’re a young adult just starting your journey, a career changer seeking a fresh path, or someone ready to level up your professional game, we provide the tools, guidance, and support you need to achieve your goals.
10000+
Clients Served
98%
Satisfaction Rate
99%
Branding Success
Meet the Team at
Career Pivot 123 LLC
Darren R. Petronella, MS, CPRW
Founder/CEO, Career Counselor/Coach, Career Pivot 123 LLC
As a Career, Educational, and College Counselor/Coach, Darren focuses primarily on career assessment and development, action planning, professional branding, job search, and higher education success. In his practice and in everything else he does, Darren strives to lead with empathy, kindness, positivity, and support—with a dash (or splash) of humor.
Darren earned a Master of Science in Education (Counseling) and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. He is a Certified Professional Resume Writer (CPRW), and a Certified Notary Public. Darren has taught career development, college success, and psychology courses at higher education institutions, non-profit organizations, and private events for 20+ years.
For more information about Darren Petronella, please visit his
LinkedIn and
Psychology Today profiles, where you can find more details about his employment history, as well as client, student, and professional testimonials, skills endorsements, and narrative recommendations of his impact. Darren enjoys lots of cake, theatre, music, and travel.
Cathlyn Stahl, MS, CCSP
Career Coach, Career Pivot 123 LLC
Cathlyn Stahl is a certified career coach who helps career changers transition into various industries, in and out of the tech industry. Cathlyn has Career Coached Team USA athletes, veterans, career changes, and job seekers globally from entry level to C-suite executives. She leans into her experience in Sport Psychology to work with each person holistically with personalized support to aid career transition with confidence. She has experience with assessments, goal setting, resume and LinkedIn optimization, interviewing, networking, salary negotiation, and more. In her free time, Cathlyn enjoys the outdoors, traveling, reading, baking, music, and watching sports.
Career Pivot 123 LLC transformed how I approach my job search. Their counseling and coaching made all the difference, and I landed multiple interviews!
David L., Career Changer
FAQs
Questions and Answers
What does the "123" mean in your company name?
A great question!
At Career Pivot 123 LLC we follow a tried and true formula to help our clients achieve the goals they want to achieve.
We help you to Assess Yourself and where you are now (1),
Explore Your Options and Develop Your Choices (2), and then
Take Action that helps you pivot toward your Success (3).
The Assess-Explore-Act (1-2-3) model we use pivots and propels you forward and leads you to your future prosperity!
I don't know what I want to do. How can you help me?
You are in the right place!
It sounds like you need to meet with a career counselor. We can help you to assess and reflect about yourself, explore career options, and then set you on an action plan!
My resume is old, not updated, and needs a refresh. How can you help?
As Certified Professional Resume Writers, we can help you to start from scratch to create a new, modern-looking, and dynamic resume for today's job market. We also do resume reviews of your existing document and teach you how to update it on your own. We will show you do's, don'ts, best practices, and ways to best align your resume to the positions you intend to apply for.
I do not have a LinkedIn profile. Do I really need one?
YES, you must have a LinkedIn profile for today's job market. It will help you connect and network with others, and learn about job openings that you can apply to.
We will help you create, develop, and optimize your LinkedIn profile to get noticed and attract employers, hiring managers, and colleagues in your desired field.
I've been in my career field for a while now. But I think I'm developing burnout. How can you help me?
You are not alone. Many professionals experience burnout, especially if you're in a position that you're no longer excited by, if you're in a toxic workplace, or for any other reason.
Our counseling and coaching strategies help you verbalize your issues, discuss your tolerance for change, possibly with a pivot to another field, and then set a personalized plan that is curated just for you. We want you to be happy about your profession, and we will everything we can to help you get happy. When you're happy, we're happy!
Ok, I know you are not FREE. How much do your services cost?
First of all, you can email or call us to schedule a FREE phone consultation so that we can meet you, understand what you're looking for, and discuss how we will help you.
Your first one-on-one session (lasting 45-50 minutes) is $150.
Each subsequent session is $180 (sessions include any applicable assessments administered, interpretation, offline research, preparation, resume, LinkedIn, and or other branding assistance, as well as follow up emails as part of your career counseling or coaching).
Our referral incentive program will help you save money on your sessions. For every referral (colleague, friend, family member, etc.) that schedules and attends their first session, you will receive a $20 credit toward your next session. There is no limit on how much you can save!
We also offer discount Session Savings Bundles (SSB) to help you save up to 20% on each session. Ask us for more information when you reach out!
Our group workshops, events, special programs, and other client projects (i.e resume writing/revamp, LinkedIn profile overhaul, etc.) have separate and variable pricing, generally ranging from $500-$5000 per event/project.
When we correspond with you, we will review the costs as well as our policies and procedures.
**Please note that all prices are subject to change.**
To Be Continued...
As we receive more questions that many of you are asking us, we'll post them here, with our response. Feel free to email them to careerpivotdp123@gmail.com. Thank you!
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Want to get started?
We are here to help!
Whether you need more information about our services, want to schedule a consultation, or have specific inquiries, feel free to reach out.
We will get back to you as soon as possible, usually within 1-2 business days.
(646) 580-1680
careerpivotdp123@gmail.com
