Separate what you want to keep from what you want to change, identify the strengths you want to carry forward, and develop career directions worth testing—before urgency and familiarity make the decision for you.
Start My Career Reset: $19 ↗45-minute guided workshop · One-time payment
For mid-career tech professionals who’ve been laid off and aren’t sure what they actually want to do next.
You didn't see it coming. Or maybe you did, and you hoped you were wrong.
Either way, the job is gone.
And almost immediately, the pressure starts building to figure out what comes next. Update the résumé. Reach out to your network. Start searching. Start applying.
Everyone around you seems to want to know what your plan is. And part of you just wants the uncertainty to stop.
So you start looking.
Not necessarily because you know what you want, but because looking feels like doing something. And doing something feels safer than sitting with the question.
But somewhere in the back of your mind, another thought keeps surfacing:
You've been in tech long enough to know that a job is rarely all good or all bad.
There were probably things you genuinely liked. Things you would gladly leave behind. Problems you loved solving. Work you were good at but never particularly wanted to keep doing. Responsibilities that energized you—and others that drained you.
Maybe there were even parts of yourself you weren't getting to use enough.
While you were working, there wasn't always much reason—or much room—to sort all of that out. The job kept moving. You kept moving.
Now that momentum has been interrupted.
And before you automatically recreate what came before, you have an opportunity to ask a much more useful question:
What do I actually want next?
That question is the whole point of this workshop.
You don't need a new career mapped out, a five-year plan drafted, or a sudden revelation about your true calling. None of that is the goal here.
The goal is simpler:
Get clear enough to move forward deliberately, instead of letting urgency and familiarity make the decision for you.
The workshop is 45 minutes. It walks you through a structured process for sorting through what you want to keep, what you want to change, what strengths you want to carry forward, and which directions are worth exploring.
You’ll get the questions to ask, the frameworks to use, and time to actually think about the answers.
By the time you finish, you won’t have a perfect answer.
But you will have a working direction.
And that gives you something much more useful than “I need another job”: a clearer idea of what you’re looking for and a better way to evaluate the opportunities in front of you.
You get immediate access as soon as you purchase.
The workshop is a 45-minute guided video you can start the same day, with reflection exercises built directly into the process. Pause when you need more thinking time, rewind when you want to revisit something, or work through the entire experience at your own pace.
You don’t need to spend weeks completing lessons before you can start figuring out what you want next.
You start doing that work inside the workshop itself.
And for your first 30 days, you’ll also have access to live Office Hours, where you can bring your questions, pressure-test your thinking, and continue refining your working direction as you learn more.
So the goal isn’t to give you weeks of material to consume.
It’s to get you thinking differently about your next move in 45 minutes—and give you 30 days of support to keep working through it.
When you’ve spent years building experience in tech, there may be many jobs you could pursue. That doesn’t mean they’re all good choices for you.
You’ll identify what you want to keep, what you want to change, and what matters most in your next chapter—so you can search with a clearer sense of direction instead of treating every familiar job posting like a possibility.
Your résumé tells you where you’ve used your abilities before. It doesn’t tell you all the places those abilities could create value next.
Through the Superman Test, you’ll look underneath specific tools, tasks, and job titles to identify the capabilities that make you effective, and decide which of those strengths you actually want to carry forward.
Your résumé becomes evidence about what you can do, not instructions for what you have to do next.
You’ll look across your experience for patterns in the problems you solve, the value you create, and the capabilities other people rely on you for... then begin reframing that experience around where you want to go next.
That can give you a much stronger foundation for talking about yourself in networking conversations, applications, and interviews later.
Instead of asking only:
“Could I get this job?”
you’ll have a way to ask:
“Does this opportunity give me enough of what I want next?”
You’ll identify and prioritize the criteria that matter to you now, so you have something concrete to evaluate roles against when real-world tradeoffs start appearing.
You don’t need to leave the workshop having chosen your forever career.
You’ll identify directions that combine your capabilities, priorities, and curiosity... and treat them as possibilities to investigate rather than commitments you have to defend.
That means you can research, talk to people, explore adjacent roles, and gather evidence before deciding whether a direction deserves a bigger commitment.
Tech Career Reset is a 45-minute guided video workshop for mid-career tech professionals who’ve been laid off and aren’t sure what they actually want to do next.
Inside the workshop, you’ll work through a four-step process to:
Separate what you want to keep from what you want to change
Look underneath your previous job titles to identify the transferable capabilities you want to carry forward
Define the criteria that matter most in your next role
Turn possible career directions into hypotheses you can investigate, instead of decisions you have to commit to immediately
The video includes guided reflection time so you can work through the exercises as you go. You’ll also receive the Beta Fieldwork Starter Guide you can use afterward to keep developing your thinking at your own pace.
And for your first 30 days, you’ll have access to live Office Hours, offered at multiple times, where you can bring your questions, pressure-test a possible direction, work through something that has you stuck, or get help making sense of what you uncovered.
By the end, the goal isn’t for you to have your entire career figured out.
It’s for you to have a clearer working direction, and a better way to decide what deserves your attention next.
This isn’t résumé writing, LinkedIn optimization, interview preparation, or application strategy.
It’s the decision-making work that comes before those tactics: figuring out what you actually want to pursue before you start optimizing yourself to pursue it.
Veronica Kirchoff
Creator of Tech Career Reset
I’m Veronica Kirchoff, and my own career has never followed a straight line.
I started in multimedia design. Later, I moved into accounting. Then, in my 40s, I made a major pivot into cloud technology.
On paper, those careers can look disconnected.
They weren’t.
Making that transition forced me to look past job titles and ask a different question: What am I actually good at, and how can those strengths create value somewhere new?
I couldn’t simply point to twenty years of experience in the field I wanted to enter. I had to learn how to reframe the experience I already had; how to recognize the capabilities underneath it, decide what I wanted to carry forward, and stop treating my résumé like a set of instructions for what I was allowed to do next.
That experience changed the way I think about careers.
Since then, much of my work in technology has involved helping people make sense of complex situations: looking beyond the most obvious problem, asking better questions, understanding the larger system, and figuring out what actually needs to change before jumping to a solution.
That’s the same approach behind Tech Career Reset.
After a layoff, the obvious problem is:
“I need another job.”
But that may not be the first problem worth solving.
Before you rewrite your résumé, optimize LinkedIn, practice interviews, or start sending applications, there’s a more fundamental question:
What do you actually want the next job to be?
I created Tech Career Reset to give you a structured way to work through that question, using the experience you already have as evidence for your future, without letting it dictate your future.
Your $19 beta purchase includes the complete workshop, practical Fieldwork resources, a worked example, and 30 days of live support.
A prerecorded, self-paced guided workshop with reflection exercises built into the process. Pause when you need more thinking time, rewind when you want to revisit something, or work through the full experience at your own pace.
Inside the workshop, you’ll use the Separate → Reframe → Filter → Test process to develop a clearer working direction and decide what deserves your attention next.
The core workshop helps you build your initial Career Reset. But your thinking may continue to evolve once you start researching roles, talking to people, and testing your hypotheses.
For your first 30 days, you can join live Office Hours to:
Office Hours are live and offered at multiple times to make participation easier.
The 45-minute workshop is designed to help you establish a working direction.
The Beta Fieldwork Starter Guide helps you take the next step: getting out into the real world and gathering evidence about whether your career hypotheses actually fit.
Use it to continue exploring your possibilities, test your assumptions, and refine your direction after the workshop.
Sometimes it’s much easier to understand a framework once you’ve seen someone actually use it.
You’ll receive a PDF version of Alex’s complete Career Reset example, including the answers used in the workshop video so you can see how the pieces connect from beginning to end.
The PDF also includes practical tools for taking Alex’s hypotheses into the Fieldwork stage:
You don’t need Alex’s PDF to complete your own Career Reset.
It’s there as a reference when you want to see what the process looks like in practice, and what someone could do next once they have a direction worth investigating.
You’ll keep access to the workshop video and downloadable beta materials. Live Office Hours access lasts for 30 days from your purchase date.
Tech Career Reset is new, so I don’t have customer testimonials to show you yet.
I’m offering this first version for a one-time beta price of $19 while real participants work through the process and help me understand what is most useful, where people get stuck, and what kind of follow-up support belongs in future products.
Beta participants receive a more expansive version of the experience than I plan to include with the standard workshop: 30 days of Office Hours rather than the 14 days currently planned, plus the full Beta Fieldwork Starter Guide and Meet Alex resources.
The standard release is planned to include a shorter Fieldwork transition resource, while the deeper Fieldwork process is being developed as a separate 30-Day Fieldwork Sprint product.
The beta price is low because you’re participating early and helping me learn what should remain part of the workshop and what should eventually become a separate product.
You get an expanded version of the experience for $19. I get real-world feedback that helps me build the next version better.
This exact beta package will change when the workshop moves into its standard release. You will keep the workshop video and downloadable beta materials included with your purchase, and your full 30-day Office Hours period remains yours.
You can absolutely start your job search without doing this work first.
You can update your résumé, search familiar titles, reach out to your network, and begin applying.
And you may find a perfectly good opportunity that way.
But if you haven’t stopped to ask what you actually want next, you’re still evaluating those opportunities with many of the same assumptions you had before the layoff.
You may know whether you’re qualified for a job without knowing whether you actually want it.
You may know whether an opportunity looks good on paper without having clear criteria for deciding whether it fits the life and career you want now.
And you may overlook possibilities simply because they don’t resemble the jobs you’ve already had.
The layoff has already interrupted the default path.
Tech Career Reset gives you a chance to decide deliberately what deserves to come after it.
Go through the workshop and try the exercises.
If you don’t feel clearer about what you want from your next career move, just email me within seven days of purchase.
I’ll refund your $19 in full.
No forms. No complicated process. No need to convince me that the workshop “didn’t work.”
The goal of Tech Career Reset is to help you think more clearly about what comes next.
If it doesn’t do that for you, you shouldn’t have to pay for it.
Join The Tech Career Reset beta and start whenever you’re ready.
You don’t need to know the answer before you begin.
You just need to be willing to ask better questions before deciding what comes next.
For $19, you’ll get immediate access to:
Covered by the 7-Day Clarity Guarantee
A: No.
Tech Career Reset isn’t only useful before the first application. You can use the framework at any point while you’re still deciding what kinds of opportunities deserve your attention.
If you already have applications or interviews in progress, the criteria you develop during the workshop can also help you evaluate those opportunities more deliberately.
You don’t need to start your job search over. You’re giving yourself a better framework for deciding where to focus it.
A: Possibly, but that isn’t really the point.
The workshop isn’t designed to teach you facts about your own career that some outside expert magically knows better than you do.
The value is in giving you a structured way to examine what you already know from a different angle.
You’ll separate what you’re good at from what you actually want to keep doing, identify the capabilities underneath your previous job titles, clarify what matters most now, and turn possible directions into hypotheses you can test.
You may recognize many of the pieces.
The goal is to help you connect them differently.
A: Yes. You do not need to arrive with a career direction already chosen.
In fact, that uncertainty is exactly what the workshop is designed to help you work through.
You’ll look at what you want to keep and change, identify transferable capabilities, define the criteria that matter most to you, and use those inputs to generate possibilities worth investigating.
The goal isn’t to force yourself to choose a permanent answer.
It’s to develop a better working direction and some hypotheses worth testing.
A: No.
Tech Career Reset is designed for experienced, mid-career technology professionals rather than one particular technical specialty.
Your background might be in software, cloud, infrastructure, support, product, technical consulting, security, data, or another part of the technology industry.
The framework doesn’t depend on a particular toolset or job title.
You bring the experience. The workshop helps you look underneath it.
A: That is a completely valid outcome.
Tech Career Reset is not designed to talk you into changing careers.
You may finish the process and decide that you genuinely want the same kind of work, perhaps with a different company, environment, manager, level of responsibility, or set of working conditions.
The goal is not change for the sake of change.
The goal is to make the next decision deliberately rather than assuming your previous path is automatically the right (or wrong) one.
A: No.
This isn’t an assessment that produces a single recommended career, and I’m not going to tell you what you “should” do.
You’ll build criteria, uncover transferable capabilities, explore possibilities, and develop career hypotheses you can investigate through research and real-world Fieldwork.
The workshop helps you make a better decision. It doesn’t make the decision for you.
A: Your purchase is covered by my 7-Day Clarity Guarantee.
Go through the workshop and try the exercises. If you don’t feel clearer about what you want from your next career move, email me within seven days of purchase and I’ll refund your $19.
No forms. No complicated process.
If the workshop doesn’t help you think more clearly about what comes next, you shouldn’t have to pay for it.
A: Many career resources focus on helping you execute a job search: résumé writing, LinkedIn positioning, networking, interviews, applications, and offer negotiation.
Those can all be useful.
Tech Career Reset focuses on the decision that comes before those tactics: what are you actually trying to pursue?
Instead of starting with:
“How do I get my next job?”
the workshop starts with:
“What do I actually want my next job to be?”
You’ll use your experience as evidence, identify what you want to carry forward, define what matters now, and develop directions worth testing before investing heavily in pursuing them.
A: Yes. You’ll get immediate access to the prerecorded 45-minute workshop after purchase. The reflection exercises are built into the process, and you can pause, rewind, and work through them at your own pace.
A: You’ll keep access to the workshop video and the downloadable beta materials included with your purchase. Live Office Hours are available separately for the first 30 days after your purchase.
A: Your 30-day Office Hours period begins on the date you purchase. Live sessions are offered at multiple times, and you’ll receive the current schedule and joining instructions after purchase.
You can bring questions from the workshop, unfinished exercises, competing career possibilities, Fieldwork discoveries, or anything else you’re having trouble sorting through.
Office Hours are for Q&A and thinking through the process with support. They are not private résumé reviews, LinkedIn optimization sessions, or one-on-one career coaching.
A: Office Hours are designed for live participation. Because sessions may include participant questions and discussion, recordings are not guaranteed. Any recording availability and privacy details will be included with the Office Hours schedule.
A: Email me within seven days of purchase and let me know you would like a refund under the 7-Day Clarity Guarantee. No forms or explanation are required, and I’ll refund your $19 in full.
A: No. Feedback is welcome and will help shape the next version, but submitting feedback is not a condition of purchase, access, or the guarantee.
Join The Tech Career Reset beta for $19 and start whenever you’re ready.
You don’t need to know exactly where you’re going before you begin. You just need a better way to decide what’s worth exploring next.
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