RTE New Series - The Career Coach

RTÉ is starting production on a new TV series which will help six people who have just been made redundant or are soon to be redundant to find new careers.

'The Career Coach' will start filming in July and the producers are looking for six people to take part. Participants will be mentored by one of the country's leading career coaches to help people find new work after redundancy.

John Fitzgerald is MD Harmonics Career Crafting Ltd who specialise in helping companies making people redundant to find new careers. Harmonics clients include Diageo, O2, Tyco, Jacob Fruitfield and Superquinn.

"I'm meeting a lot of people who see this recession as an opportunity," says Mr. Fitzgerald. "Some have been working in a job they never really liked but were afraid to leave. Now the decision has been made for them and they're starting to think, what do I really want to do with the rest of my life."

He's currently working with different people from all walks of life - from Senior Managers, engineers, solicitors and architects to factory operatives and he's been behind some big success stories, even though the country is facing record job losses.

"People being made redundant fear their age, financial commitments, lack of education in some cases or feeling over qualified in other cases can be the barrier to a new career," he says. "But that's not true. My experience is that when people believe in themselves and make a decision to change their behaviour, they can take huge steps to reinvent themselves."

Over the next six months the RTÉ Cork series will follow six people from different backgrounds as they're mentored and coached by John to find new careers. The primetime series will air on RTÉ One in 2010.

Click here for more information from the Harmonics website