“I came in convinced logistics was a clean leap from store management. The first session showed where my assumptions about shift planning and supplier language would fail. We rebuilt my story around inventory decisions I had actually owned, and that version finally got interviews.”
The homework between sessions was heavier than I expected — useful, but plan for evening hours.
Mara Ellers — Former retail operations lead, now logistics coordinator
Industry Change Onboarding
“My old Lebenslauf listed every machine I had touched. After the rewrite, hiring managers could see how I diagnose faults under time pressure — which is what facility teams cared about. Two firms invited me within three weeks.”
Jonas Richter — Mechanical technician moving into building services
German Application Package
“We practiced the ‘why leave the private sector’ question until my answer stopped sounding like an apology. The mock panel caught where I still used agency jargon that civil-service interviewers would not recognise.”
Selin Aydin — Marketing coordinator entering public-sector communications
Interview Prep for Career Changers
“Week three in the new clinic office, I almost over-promised on a roster change because that is how restaurants move. The check-in helped me slow down, map who actually approves schedules, and ask my manager one clear question instead of fixing things alone.”
Thomas Vogt — Hospitality supervisor, now healthcare administration
First Ninety Days Orientation
“The role-mapping exercise forced me to drop three target titles that looked glamorous but required site experience I do not have. Narrowing to project-support roles felt like a step down at first; it was the only list that produced real conversations.”
Elena Kranz — Banking analyst shifting into renewable-energy project support
Industry Change Onboarding
Extended story: retail operations to logistics
Mara arrived with a list of warehouse coordinator postings and a CV still organised around store KPIs. In the first Industry Change Onboarding session we mapped which of her inventory decisions would matter to a logistics lead — and which store rituals (opening checklists, visual merchandising) would confuse the reader.
Between sessions she rewrote three Anschreiben drafts. The second draft still opened with “I am passionate about supply chains.” We cut that line and led with a stock discrepancy she had resolved across six stores in one week. Interviews followed from two Hamburg-area firms. She later used First Ninety Days Orientation once she accepted an offer, mainly to slow down before changing a roster process she did not yet own.
Her reservation stands: the homework was heavy. Candidates with limited evening time should say so at intake so we can sequence fewer parallel tasks.