You know
you can do
the role.
So why are hiring
decisions not
going your way?
Experience alone does not drive hiring decisions. They’re driven by how quickly decision-makers understand your value, where you fit, and whether they feel confident hiring you.
Being able to do the role and being hired for the role are not the same thing.
The Obvious Hire Method™ helps you influence the factors that bridge the gap.
Do These Challenges Sound Familiar?
You are capable, experienced and ready for what's next, but the next offer feels out of reach.
Applications disappear into a black hole
You apply, but rarely hear back, and you’re not sure why.
Your CV describes what you’ve done, but doesn’t capture the value you bring.
It’s not having the impact your know it should.
You’re getting interviews but not offers.
You make it to the final stages, yet someone else always gets chosen.
Networking feels uncomfortable or unproductive.
You’re not sure who to talk to, what to say, or how to turn conversations into opportunities.
You struggle to explain oyour value clearly.
You know what you bring to the table, but find it hard to put into words.
You’re being perceived as too senior, or too expensive
It’s draining your confidence and making you question what to do next.
These challenges are common among talented professionals.
The Obvious Hire Method™ helps you uncover and address the underlying causes behind them.
Why Strong Candidates Still Get Overlooked
Because hiring decisions are influenced by more than experience alone.
Many professionals focus on proving they can do the job.
Hiring professionals are assessing something different.
From the moment they encounter your application, they are evaluating how relevant, credible, memorable, low-risk, and compelling you appear compared to other candidates.
The Obvious Hire Method™ helps you understand and influence the factors that shape hiring decisions from the very beginning.
Hiring managers evaluate more than capability.
The Obvious Hire Method™ helps you strengthen your evidence to build confidence and reduce perceived hiring risk.
Most Professionals Focus on Getting Hired
Few focus on what drives 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
Most job seekers focus on activities.
The Obvious Hire Method™ focuses on the factors that most influence hiring decisions.
How the Obvious Hire Method Works
Four lenses focused on what actually influences hiring decisions.
You get access to a number of tools depending on your subscription level. Each tool falls into 1 of 4 lenses.
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
Know what makes you valuable.
3. ACCESS
Get Access to the Right
People and Opportunities
Get closer to where opportunities happen.
2. POSITIONING
Position Yourself Clearly in the
Market
Make your value easy to understand.
4. CONVICTION
Build Confidence in the
Hiring Decision
Help decision-makers feel confident choosing you.
Hiring decisions are rarely influenced by a single factor.
The Obvious Hire Method™ strengthens the key factors that work together to create hiring confidence.
Inside The Obvious Hire Method
Designed around the factors that actually influence hiring decisions.
ONBOARDING
When you join The Obvious Hire™, you’ll receive immediate access to the full member portal, including all tools, frameworks, guides, templates, and resources included within your package.
You’ll also receive a personal welcome from Emily, introducing you to the method, the four lenses, and how to get the most value from the experience.
The onboarding process helps you understand where to begin, what to focus on first, and how to align your efforts with the factors that most influence hiring decisions.
01 Fundamentals - Understanding Your Professional Value
Most experienced professionals are too close to their own careers to fully see the value sitting beneath their experience.
Over time, many people normalise what they do, underestimate the level at which they operate, describe themselves using internal company language, and focus more on responsibilities than impact.
Through this lens, you begin to uncover what employers are actually hiring you for, the strengths that run throughout your career, where you reduce risk, solve problems, and create trust, and the value sitting underneath your work.
This becomes the foundation for everything that follows, strengthening your positioning, professional conversations, and interview performance.
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, fit, and value.
Many professionals unintentionally sound too broad, bury their strongest experience, focus heavily on responsibilities rather than impact, and make hiring professionals work too hard to understand what they bring.
Through this lens, you begin to uncover what employers are really looking for beneath the job description, how hiring professionals assess fit, relevance, and level, where your positioning may be weakening your applications, and how stronger positioning reduces uncertainty in the hiring decision.
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
• A 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, and lack visibility in the professional circles where opportunities often emerge.
This lens helps you understand how opportunities actually move, and how to get closer to the people and conversations that influence hiring decisions.
Through this lens, 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, and how stronger visibility increases access to opportunity.
This is not about generic networking. It is 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 simply about giving good answers.
Hiring professionals are assessing how you think, communicate, exercise judgement, 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, focus on capability without building conviction, and fail to understand what hiring professionals are really assessing.
This lens helps you understand how hiring conviction is built, strengthened, or lost throughout interviews and hiring conversations.
Through this lens, you begin to uncover what sits beneath common interview questions, how hiring professionals assess risk, judgement, and fit, where doubt is unintentionally created, how stronger answers build trust and credibility, and 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
• A better understanding of hiring thinking during interviews
• Greater confidence handling challenging questions
• A stronger ability to build hiring conviction throughout the process
Hiring decisions are shaped by many factors.
The Obvious Hire Method™ helps you strengthen the ones that matter most, and are under your control.
Why The Obvious Hire Method Is Different
Your experience. My methodology. AI-powered execution.
Unlike generic AI or one-size-fits-all career advice, The Obvious Hire Method™ combines your experience, my hiring insight, and purpose-built tools to create support that is tailored to you.
YOU
You provide the raw material.
Your experience, achievements, aspirations, target roles, network, and career ambitions.
ME
I provide the methodology.
Thirty years of hiring, leadership, coaching, and corporate experience have shaped the frameworks, questions, insights, and decision-making processes behind The Obvious Hire Method™.
THE TOOLS
The tools bring the methodology to life.
Built and instructed by me, they apply The Obvious Hire Method™ to your unique situation, helping you analyse, challenge, learn, practise, and accelerate your progress.
Tools are most valuable when they solve real problems.
The Obvious Hire Method™ uses purpose-built tools to help you think more clearly, prepare more effectively, and move forward faster.
See The Obvious Hire Method In Action
Practical tool. Real guidance. Built for the way you work
Deep Strategic Work.
Reflect. Analyse. Position
Personalised AI Support
Challenge. Practise. Improve.
Built Around Real Hiring Decisions
Guided by hiring insight, not generic job search advice.
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
- Strengthen your CV so your most valuable experience is seen first
- Improve how employers quickly understand your relevance and impact
- The Obvious Hire CV Template
A strong foundation strengthens everything that follows throughout the entire 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, with live hiring simulation.
Stronger positioning, greater visibility, and better interviews increase your chances of becoming the obvious choice.
ACCELERATOR
Apply the method 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
- Two 1 on 1 sessions per month
- Access to my Network
Strategic insight and personalised guidance help you move forward with greater confidence and speed.
What Can The Tools Help You Do?
Whether you're exploring options, refining your positioning, preparing for interviews, there's a tool designed to help.
CHALLENGE
Push your thinking beyond the obvious and uncover hidden value.
LEARNING
Gain insights, skills, and practical knowledge drawn from real-world hiring experience.
RESEARCH
Uncover insights, opportunities, and information you might otherwise miss.
ANALYSE
Identify gaps, strengths, patterns, and areas for improvement.
PRACTICE
Build confidence through preparation, simulation, and feedback.
ACCELERATE
Save time, stay focused, and maintain momentum.
The right tool at the right moment can change how you think, prepare, and move forward.
The Obvious Hire Method™ gives you access to tools designed to research, analyse, challenge, teach, practise, and accelerate your progress.
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 method designed to help experienced professionals become easier to understand by decision makers, easier to position in the market, and easier to hire. It combines practical tools, fuelled by AI, 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?
Yes, it is designed for those who are actively looking for work. However, it is equally suitable if you have just started your search, or are many months into it.
Is this self-paced or guided?
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.
How quickly do I get access?
Access is provided shortly after joining, allowing you to begin exploring the method, tools, and material immediately.
Can I upgrade later?
Yes, you can upgrade membership levels later if they decide you would like broader access to tools or more personalised strategic support.
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 – applying for roles, hiring talent, leading teams, making difficult redundancy decisions, and experiencing major career disruption myself.
I’ve been involved in hiring decisions since the 1990s, eventually becoming the person accountable for making final hiring decisions and building high-performing teams.
My senior corporate forensic investigator background taught me something equally important: the most valuable evidence is often hidden beneath the surface.
The same is true in careers.
Many talented professionals underestimate their value, overlook their strongest differentiators, and struggle to communicate the impact they’ve had. My role is to help uncover what others miss and bring it into focus.
That’s why I created The Obvious Hire™.
It combines my hiring insight, forensic questioning, practical frameworks, and smart AI tools to help professionals understand their value, position it clearly, and become the obvious choice.
