Career coaching for professionals navigating their next move, and fractional recruitment for the hospitality and leisure industry, building teams with precision and passion. Two services, one standard: rigorous preparation, then decisive action.
1:1 coaching as well as group coaching workshops for mid to senior level professionals who are ready to make their next move with guidance, strategy and precision.
Explore the programme → For the Hospitality & Leisure IndustryAn experienced recruiter working inside your business on a part-time basis. You get the hiring capability of a senior in-house lead without carrying the salary, the visa or the headcount.
Explore the service →Career Clarity — 6 Session Core Programme
The sessions are sequential by design, each one resting on the work of the one before. Every session ends with something built, not just something discussed.
Where are you actually heading, and why?
Defining your market positioning and undertaking a key strengths audit.
Get clear on your execution plan.
Frame your experience around your direct impact and value.
Gain the insights, techniques and the confidence for your interviews.
Review and define what the market is actually telling you.
For the professional who knows it is time to move and wants to do it properly rather than quickly. Six sessions covering direction, positioning, your documents, your target list and interview practice, finishing with an honest review of what the market told us.
Everything in Career Clarity, with room to go deeper where it counts. For most people that means confidence, presence and the internal story that quietly holds them back. Two additional sessions, shaped around what surfaces as we work together.
The core six, plus four sessions of support once you are live in the market. This is where salary conversations, second interviews and competing offers get worked through with someone who has sat on the hiring side of all three.
The most comprehensive option, and a longer term working partnership. This is where the search needs sustained attention over months rather than weeks. Twelve sessions, used as and when you need them, with the remaining six sessions shaped around your job search rather than a set programme.
Every package starts with the same six sessions from the core programme, Career Clarity. Elevation, Transformation and Mastery packages then add two, four or six more sessions, spent on whatever your job search brings up, with steady support through the middle stretch. We decide together as we go.
Not ready to commit to a full programme? Ninety minutes on the one thing that is blocking you right now. No preamble, no discovery phase.
Available across all 6, 8, 10 and 12-session coaching programmes.
Due prior to commencement of the first session
Due before the midpoint session of your programme
Due before the final session
Payment plan instalments are non-refundable once each respective stage has commenced. Full programme access at each stage is contingent on timely payment of the relevant instalment. This payment plan is offered at Claudia's discretion and must be confirmed at the time of booking. Please note this payment plan does not apply to the 4-Week Group Workshop.
A structured, four-week programme designed to move you from uncertainty to clarity, from invisible to positioned, and from reactive to strategic in your job search.
Where are you actually heading, and why? Week one validates your direction so your entire search is built on solid foundations rather than reaction.
What story are you telling yourself about your chances? Week two surfaces the limiting beliefs quietly running your search and replaces them with the confidence and resilience to keep going, when it gets really hard.
Do you know what genuinely sets you apart in your market? Week three works that out, sharpens it, and turns it into a short, specific claim you can say out loud in an interview or write at the top of your CV, so a hiring manager understands your worth in seconds.
Is your CV telling the right story, and is your LinkedIn doing any of the heavy lifting at all? Week four is a focused, practical review, ensuring your experience is framed around impact, your positioning is consistent across every channel and recruiters can actually find you.
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Register Your Interest for the Online WorkshopYour dedicated, embedded Recruitment Business Partner on a fractional basis. Senior recruitment expertise, strategy, and delivery, without the cost or commitment of a full time in house hire or recruitment agency fees.
Access senior recruitment leadership without the overhead of a full time salary, visa costs, benefits package, or long term contract commitment. Short notice available.
Claudia embeds in your business's hiring culture, understanding your brand values, team dynamics, and standards from day one.
Intensive recruitment ramp up support or lighter touch post stabilisation management. The model flexes completely around your operational requirements.
Long term continuity that protects team quality, reduces turnover, and lowers your cost per hire over time, unlike transactional agency models.
A flexible retainer model that scales with your hiring volume, from light touch support through to a fully embedded recruitment function.
Monthly retainer fee based on operational requirements. No placement fees. No long term lock in.
Currently hiring for a pre-opening, ramp up, or ongoing recruitment need?
Enquire About Fractional RecruitmentClaudia is a UAE-based Recruiter, Career Consultant, and ICF Certified Coach with 18+ years of corporate experience spanning recruitment, career coaching, business development, leadership development, team leadership and senior stakeholder partnership management.
Having lived and worked in the UAE for over a decade, Claudia brings an unmatched depth of knowledge of the regional job market, leveraging her extensive recruitment network and coaching expertise to help mid-to-senior professionals navigate career transitions with confidence and a plan that holds up. Alongside her coaching practice, Claudia partners with hospitality and leisure businesses as a fractional recruitment business partner, providing senior recruitment strategy, sourcing, and delivery, giving hotels and leisure operators embedded recruitment expertise without the cost of a full-time hire.
Most people do not have a job search problem. They have a positioning problem, and it is costing them months.
A selection of feedback from professionals coached through career clarity, positioning, and job search strategy.
Claudia creates a learning space that is supportive, practical, and deeply empowering. Each session gave me tools I could immediately apply and reminded me of the strengths I still carry. For anyone navigating a career transition, I highly recommend working with her.
Claudia is consistent. What stood out in our recent 4 week workshop is how she weaves in her career experience with a genuine passion to connect with clients. She makes you search for the achievements that can add value to your next opportunity. You'll feel the shift in just one conversation.
I had the opportunity to participate in her job-seeker workshops, where she shared practical strategies and techniques for navigating today's competitive job market. What sets Claudia apart is her ability to combine operational leadership experience with a genuine passion for helping others succeed.
She has a way of cutting through the noise and getting to the heart of what's holding you back. She never tried to give a one-size-fits-all solution. She took the time to understand my situation, challenged me when I needed it, and helped me see my experience differently.
For the past two months, being Coached by Claudia was life-changing. Those sessions provided a safe, reflective environment where Claudia balanced a psychological approach with a science-backed one. I came away with a clearer understanding of myself and a lasting mindset upgrade.
She brings a sharp, structured approach to coaching, with the ability to quickly identify gaps, challenge perspectives, and drive clarity of thought. Her balanced style of thoughtful encouragement with direct, constructive challenge helped me strengthen my positioning and move forward with a focused strategy.
From the moment you first reach out to the final session, you can't help but gain a stronger understanding of what drives you, your strengths, your weaknesses, and the patterns that shape the way you think. I completed four sessions and I'm confident there will be more in the future.
She listens, asks the right questions, and somehow helps you untangle things you didn't even realise were holding you back. Working with her has made a noticeable difference in how I approach decisions and long-term goals.
Before our sessions I felt extremely confused, unfocused and overwhelmed with my job search and career journey, and she really helped bring my clarity and confidence back. It is evident she genuinely cares and wants her clients to succeed.
I quickly learned that my biggest barrier was internal. Claudia helped me understand that it's okay not to know everything, and guided me in dismantling the mental roadblocks I had unknowingly built. The most profound result was the restoration of my confidence.
Her guidance made a significant impact on my career journey. She provided valuable insights into the job market and helped me thoughtfully reflect on my strengths and areas for growth. What I appreciated most was how supportive and genuine she was throughout the process.
I had the pleasure of working with Claudia in her role as a Recruitment Head, but seeing her in her element as a career coach has been something else. I'm really grateful for her guidance and genuinely couldn't recommend her enough to anyone looking for real clarity.
If you are searching for a job in the UAE and not getting the results you expect, you are probably making at least one of these mistakes. I see them every day as a career coach and recruiter with 18+ years in the market.
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