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

WHAT THE OBVIOUS HIRE METHOD DOES

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.

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 impact
 

You 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

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

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

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:

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

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

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

this is not for you if

What My Clients Are Saying

Real Results. Real People

What You Might Be Wondering

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

 Yes. Professionals can upgrade membership levels later if they decide they would like broader access to tools or more personalised strategic support.

Access is provided shortly after joining, allowing you to begin exploring the method, tools, and material immediately.

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.

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.

No. The tools are already integrated into The Obvious Hire™ experience. You do not need your own separate AI subscription or technical setup.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yes. The method helps professionals identify transferable strengths, improve relevance and positioning, and communicate capability more clearly during career transition.

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

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.

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.

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