You know
you can do
the role.
So why are hiring
decisions still not
going your way?
Experience alone does not drive hiring decisions. They’re about how quickly decisions-makers understand your professional value, where you fit, and whether they feel conviction about hiring you.
How the Obvious Hire Method Works
Four distinct lenses to help you influence the hiring decision makers at every stage
The four lenses work together across the hiring decision-making process.
They are interconnected, not linear – you move betwen them depending on where you are and what your need.
1. FUNDAMENTALS
Understand Your True
Professional Value
Uncover the strengths, judgement, credibility, and business value sitting underneath your experience. This builds your true foundation which will power everything else you do.
3. ACCESS
Get Access to the Right
People and Opportunities
Get closer to the people, conversations, and hiring circles where opportunities actually happened.
2. POSITIONING
Position Yourself Clearly in the
Market
Bring forward the parts of your experience most relevant to the role and make your fit easier to understand.
4. CONVICTION
Get Access to the Right
People and Opportunities
Build conviction throughout interviews and strengthen the hiring decision. and strengthen the hiring decision.
It’s not about doing more.
It’s about sharpening your efforts around what actually influences hiring decisions.
The Obvious Hire Method takes the perspective of hiring decision-makers and sharpens everything through that lens.
Hiring Decisions Are Made Through a Different Lens
What hiring professionals assess from the very beginning
Hiring professionals assess far more than capability alone.
From the very beginning of the process, they are subconsciously assessing these things:
Positioning. Credibility. Comparison. Risk. Prioritisation. Conviction.
If you are not thinking about these areas from the outset, you are often not fully preparing for how hiring decisions are actually made.
The Obvious Hire Method™ is built around these various decision drivers,
helping you sharpen everything within your control through the perspective
of the hiring decision-maker.
Most Professionals Work Hard When Job Seeking
Few work in alignment with hiring decisions
WHAT MOST PROFESSIONALS DO
- Rush into applications before fully uncovering and translating their professional value
- Focus on showing everything they have done, rather than narrowing attention to what is most relevant
- Rely heavily on applications, while staying too far away from the people influencing opportunities
- Prepare answers for interviews, instead of building conviction throughout the conversation
WHAT THE OBVIOUS HIRE METHOD DOES
- Helps you fully uncover and translate your professional value before and after you have entered the market
- Sharpens and prioritises the experience most relevant to each specific hiring application and discussion
- Helps you get closer to the people, conversations, and professional circles influencing hiring opportunities
- Helps you build stronger conviction throughout the hiring process, not only during interviews
The Obvious Hire Method™ helps you shift into focus on what truly drives
hiring decisions so you become the obvious choice
Hiring decisions are shaped by many factors.
The Obvious Hire Method™ helps you strengthen the ones that matter most, and are under your control.
Inside the Method
A 4-lens framework to help you stand out, get seen, and get hired
ONBOARDING
When you join The Obvious Hire™, you immediately become a member of The Obvious Hire Method.
As soon as payment is completed, you receive instant access to the full member portal, including all tools, frameworks, guides, materials, and resources included within your package. Everything is available immediately, allowing you to start working through the method at your own pace and return to the tools whenever you need them.
Once inside, you will also receive a personal welcome from Emily, introducing you to how the method works, how to approach the different lenses and tools, and how to get the strongest value from the experience. The onboarding is designed to help you quickly orient yourself, understand where to begin based on your current situation, and start focusing your effort on the areas that most influence hiring decisions.
01 Fundamentals - Understanding Your Professional Value
Most experienced professionals are too close to their own career to fully see the value underneath their experience. Over time, people frequently:
Normalise what they do day to day Underestimate the level they operate at level Describe themselves using internal company language Struggle to explain their value clearly Focus too heavily on tasks and responsibilities and not their impactYou begin to uncover:
- what employers are actually hiring you for
- the strengths across your career
- where you reduce risk, solve problems, and create trust
- the value sitting underneath your work
This becomes the foundation for everything that follows, strengthening your positioning, interviews, and professional conversations.
You will walk away with:
- a clearer understanding of your professional value
- stronger language to describe your experience
- greater confidence explaining what you bring professionally
02 Positioning - Positioning Yourself Clearly in the Market
Strong experience is not enough if employers cannot quickly understand your relevance and fit.
Many professionals unintentionally:
sound too broad
bury their strongest experience
focus too heavily on responsibilities
undersell their level and impact
make hiring managers work too hard to understand their value
This lens helps you strengthen how your experience is positioned in the market.
You begin to uncover:
- what hiring managers are really looking for beneath the job description
- how employers quickly assess level, fit, and relevance
- where your positioning may be weakening your applications
- how stronger positioning reduces uncertainty and hiring risk
This helps you move away from generic applications towards clearer, more targeted positioning.
You will walk away with:
- a stronger CV title and professional summary
- clearer understanding of what job descriptions are really asking for
- stronger positioning for the roles you want
- greater confidence tailoring applications for specific opportunities
03 Access - Get Access to the Right People and Opportunities in the Market
Many professionals unintentionally:
rely too heavily on online applications
approach networking without a clear strategy
underestimate the value of existing relationships
struggle to know who to speak to
use LinkedIn passively instead of strategically
lack visibility in the right professional circles
This lens helps you understand how opportunities actually move, and how to get closer to the people and conversations that influence hiring decisions.
You begin to uncover:
- where recruiters and hiring professionals actively search for talent
- how to use LinkedIn more strategically
- which existing contacts may already sit closer to opportunity
- how to approach people more naturally and credibly
- how stronger visibility increases access to opportunity
This is not about generic networking. Instead, it’s about building stronger proximity to opportunity.
You will walk away with:
- a clearer networking and visibility strategy
- stronger LinkedIn positioning
- greater confidence approaching contacts professionally
- more focused access to relevant people and opportunities
04 Conviction - Convert Opportunities into Offers
Strong interviews are not only about giving good answers.
Hiring professionals are assessing how you think, operate, communicate, handle pressure, and whether they can trust you in the role.
Many professionals unintentionally:
over-rehearse answers
sound too generic or polished
struggle when challenged or interrupted
focus on capability without building conviction
weaken trust through unclear or inconsistent examples
fail to understand what hiring managers are really assessing
This lens helps you understand how hiring conviction is built, strengthened, or lost during interviews and hiring conversations.
You begin to uncover:
- what sits underneath common interview questions
- how hiring managers assess risk, judgement, and fit
- where doubt is unintentionally created
- how stronger answers build trust and credibility
- how to handle interviews in a more natural and commercially grounded way
This is not about memorising perfect answers. It is about becoming easier to hire.
You will walk away with:
- stronger interview preparation
- better understanding of hiring thinking during interviews
- greater confidence handling challenging questions
- stronger ability to build hiring conviction throughout the process
How Everything Connects
How your experience, the different lenses, and strategic hiring insight work together
Each lens is supported by carefully designed tools that help you apply the methodology to your own experience, target roles, and hiring situation.
YOU
You bring your experience, ambitions, target roles, and career direction
ME
I bring the hiring insight, leadership experience, frameworks, and commerical judgement
THE TOOLS
Intelligent AI tools personalise the process, apply the methodolgy, and acclerate the work.
Most professionals focus on job search activities.
The Obvious Hire Method™ focuses on doing the right things to influence the hiring decision.
See The Method In Action
Practical tool. Real guidance. Built for the way you work
Deep Strategic Work.
Reflect. Analyse. Position
On The Move
Access support wherever ideas strike
Anywhere You Work
Built for real professional life
Practical frameworks
Step-by-step guidance
Templates
Available 24/7
100% customised to you
Choose Your Level of Support
Three subscription levels designed to fit where you are now
FUNDAMENTALS
Build the
foundation
CHF 59/month
Designed for professionals who need to uncover their true professional value, and build a convincing career narrative: All of lens 1, and part lens 2.
THIS LEVEL HELPS YOU:
- Stop underselling your experience
- Gain clarity on your professional value so you apply for roles at the right level
- Fundamentally strengthen your CV so the top section carries the heaviest weight
- Improve how employers quickly understand your relevance and impact
- The Obvious Hire CV Template
A strong foundation strengthens everything that follows throughout the hiring process.
INSIDER
Access the full method
CHF 179/month
Designed for professionals who want access to the full Obvious Hire Method across all four lenses to turn them into the obvious hiring choice
EVERYTHING IN FUNDAMENTALS, PLUS
- Customise each application to showcase your experience to best match the role
- Identify target companies who are facing challenges that you can solve
- Find, and then build entry points to access decision makers for your target roles
- Use LinkedIn strategically as a job seeker
- Build conviction throughout the interview process by focusing on the hirer's needs
A strong foundation strengthens everything that follows throughout the hiring process
ACCELERATOR
Work directly with Emily
CHF 549/month
Designed for professionals who want direct strategic insights and guidance from Emily, alongside the full methodology.
EveryTHing In INsider, Plus
- Personalised guidance tailored to you
- Strategic challenge and deeper perspective
- Deeper interpretation of opportunities and decisions
- Direct access to Emily's hiring and leadership expertise
A strong foundation strengthens everything that follows throughout the hiring process
Let's build your next chapter together
How to Decide if this is Right for You
this is RIGHT for you if
- You know you are strong professionally, but the market is not fully recognising, understanding, or responding to your value.
- You are tired of endlessly tweaking your CV, LinkedIn, applications, and interview answers without really understanding what is weakening hiring confidence.
- You want to understand how hiring decisions actually work from the inside, including how hiring managers assess relevance, risk, judgement, credibility, and fit under pressure.
- You are willing to think differently, challenge your current positioning, and actively engage with the process rather than expecting AI to “do it all for you.”
this is not for you if
- You are looking for generic CV templates, motivational coaching, or surface-level job search advice.
- You want AI to instantly generate perfect answers without reflection, input, commercial thinking, or personal involvement from you.
- You are unwilling to challenge how you currently describe your experience, level, positioning, or market relevance.
- You believe applying to more jobs is automatically the solution, rather than improving how clearly and convincingly your professional value is understood.
What My Clients Are Saying
Real Results. Real People
The use of bots within GPT was transformative, it revealed aspects of my professional and personal strengths that I hadn’t recognized before, providing me with a deeper understanding of myself.
Your active listening and well-structured approach stood out as the most valuable aspects. You provided the direction I needed and helped me feel grounded during an overwhelming period. The actionable plans we created were especially helpful for navigating my new environment and building a strategy for success." When I first reached out, I was deep in a job search and struggling with confidence. The sessions helped me prepare methodically for interviews, pointing out blind spots I would have missed and giving me the tools to present my best self, and ultimately feel confident about it. As a result, I '"nailed" those interviews and landed the position. What meant the most was the ongoing genuine support, cheering me on, even after I received the offer. Your coaching sessions have been incredibly impactful. Honestly, before working with you, I felt a bit lost and unmotivated. I believed that my job search challenges were due to either not being good enough or doing something wrong. However, your guidance has completely shifted my perspective. From helping me refine my resume to improving my interview answers, you provided practical tools and actionable advice. Beyond that, our conversations gave me a fresh outlook on how to recognize and confidently present my strengths as a professional." The experience was not only transformative but also incredibly personal and supportive.
Having recently moved to the region and unfamiliar with the job market in Switzerland, I felt uncertain about how to approach my job search. Emily took the time to listen carefully, understand my needs, and guide me step by step through the process. Her warmth, combined with her extensive corporate experience, made the entire journey feel like a partnership." What You Might Be Wondering
What is The Obvious Hire™ Method?
The Obvious Hire™ Method is a structured hiring and career positioning method designed to help experienced professionals become easier to understand, easier to position, and easier to hire. It combines practical tools, hiring insight, and real-world leadership experience to strengthen professional value, visibility, positioning, and hiring performance.
Why does the method start with understanding professional value?
Because many experienced professionals move too quickly into CV writing, applications, or networking before fully understanding the true value of their own experience. The foundation layer helps uncover hidden strengths, business impact, leadership capability, transferable value, and the level at which somebody truly operates.
Why do experienced professionals often undersell themselves?
Many experienced professionals normalise what they do because it has become familiar to them over time. As a result, they often describe themselves too operationally, minimise leadership contributions, bury strategic impact, or fail to recognise what employers would see as highly valuable experience.
What makes the method different from generic AI tools?
The tools are not generic prompts or automated CV writers. They are built around real hiring behaviour, leadership experience, hiring psychology, and market positioning. The focus is not simply generating content, but helping professionals think more strategically about how they are understood and assessed during hiring decisions.
Why does the method go beyond CV writing?
Because hiring decisions are influenced by far more than a CV. Visibility, positioning, recruiter searches, networking, LinkedIn presence, interview communication, relevance, and perceived hiring risk all play an important role in how professionals are assessed.
What is the ultimate goal of the method?
The goal is to help employers, recruiters, and hiring decision-makers quickly understand the value, relevance, credibility, and level of the experience professionals already have, making it much easier for them to move forward with confidence.
Who is this designed for?
The Obvious Hire™ Method is designed for experienced professionals who feel overlooked despite strong experience, are navigating career disruption or transition, or want to strengthen their positioning, visibility, confidence, and hiring performance.
Do I need to be actively job searching to use this?
The method is primarily designed to be self-paced, allowing professionals to work through the tools and material in a way that fits their own schedule and priorities. The Accelerator option also includes direct strategic support and guidance from Emily Rappitt.
Is this self-paced or guided?
How quickly do I get access?
Yes. Professionals can upgrade membership levels later if they decide they would like broader access to tools or more personalised strategic support.
Can I upgrade later?
Access is provided shortly after joining, allowing you to begin exploring the method, tools, and material immediately.
Which membership level is right for me?
That depends on the level of support, structure, and strategic guidance you are looking for. Some professionals prefer independent self-paced access to the tools, while others want deeper personalised guidance alongside the method.
Do I need AI skills to use the tools?
No. The tools are designed to guide professionals through structured thinking, positioning, and career decision-making in a practical and accessible way. The focus is on applying stronger hiring thinking — not learning AI technology.
Do I need a separate AI subscription to use the method?
No. The tools are already integrated into The Obvious Hire™ experience. You do not need your own separate AI subscription or technical setup.
How do professionals typically work through the method?
Most professionals start with the foundation layer, understanding and strengthening their professional value, before moving into positioning, visibility, networking, and interview performance. The method is designed to build progressively, depending on individual goals and career situations.
How long does the process take?
That depends on your starting point, career situation, and how deeply you engage with the tools. Some professionals use the method intensively during active job search periods, while others return to it over time as their direction evolves.
What additional support do I get in The Obvious Hire™ Accelerator?
The Accelerator combines the tools and methodology with direct strategic support from Emily Rappitt, including personalised guidance on positioning, CVs, LinkedIn, hiring strategy, interviews, and career decision-making.
Can this help after redundancy or career disruption?
Yes. Many professionals experiencing disruption struggle with confidence, positioning, clarity, and understanding how to move forward. The method helps rebuild stronger professional understanding and clearer market positioning.
Is this suitable for senior professionals?
Yes. The method was specifically designed with experienced and senior professionals in mind, particularly professionals whose experience may sound too broad, operational, or difficult to assess quickly.
Will this help improve interview performance?
Yes. The method helps professionals communicate experience more clearly, strengthen examples of ownership and impact, and better understand what hiring managers are actually assessing during interviews.
Can this help if I am switching industries or functions?
Yes. The method helps professionals identify transferable strengths, improve relevance and positioning, and communicate capability more clearly during career transition.
Can I use the method if English is not my first language?
Yes. While The Obvious Hire™ Method and tools are primarily designed in English, some professionals may still find them helpful when working in other languages. However, the tools have not yet been explicitly tested across multiple languages, so outputs may vary depending on language and context. Expanding multilingual capability is planned as part of future development versions of the method
Can I use this if I live outside Switzerland?
Yes. The method is not limited to Switzerland. The hiring principles inside the method — including positioning, relevance, visibility, and hiring communication — are highly transferable across international markets.
Can the method guarantee interviews or job offers?
Hiring decisions always involve external factors outside anybody’s control. The purpose of The Obvious Hire™ Method is to strengthen everything that is within your control, helping you position yourself more clearly, communicate your value more effectively, reduce hiring doubt, and compete far more strongly in the market.
Still have a question? Let’s talk about it on your free introduction call.
Meet Emily
My Value to You
I’ve been on every side of the hiring table – hiring, applying, letting people go, and being let go.
So I know how it feels when disruption shakes your career and your confidence dips.
With 30 years in senior leadership, I bring:
Empathy & Insight – I’ve been where you are, and I know the doubts disruption brings.
Credibility & Experience – I know exactly what hiring managers look for.
Resilience & Perspective – I’ve rebuilt and reinvented my own career, multiple times.
Energy & Positivity – I’ll keep you focused, motivated, and moving forward.
Work shapes over half our waking life. You deserve the right role – one where your value is seen, rewarded, and respected.
That’s why I created The Obvious Hire™ – to help you cut through uncertainty, rebuild confidence, and step forward as the obvious choice.
Let’s do this together. I’ll be in your corner every step of the way.
