Silence you find out about late
Momentum leaks between sessions. By the time a client admits she has not opened the target list, two coaching hours are spent restarting instead of advancing.
Career return coaching, run on rails
From career break to first interview in eight staged weeks
RelaunchDesk holds the whole relaunch in one place: weekly milestones, resume versions, a live target list, every application and every interview debrief. You coach the woman in front of you while the desk keeps score.
- 412 US practicesrun their relaunch programs here
- SOC 2 aligned hostingin United States regions only
- Set up in an afternoonmedian two hours and ten minutes
Danielle R. is in week 5 of 8
Resume approved, 47 target employers, 12 applications out, 2 interviews bookedWhere relaunch clients stall
The gap is not the hard part. Week four is.
You know the pattern. The intake session is electric, the resume draft comes back on time, and then a Tuesday arrives when nobody has applied to anything for eleven days and neither of you can say exactly when that started.
A week rebuilt from notebooks
Resume version four lives in email, the target list in a spreadsheet, the interview notes on paper. Coaches we surveyed spend six and a half hours a week reassembling context that should already be assembled.
The refund conversation
A client who cannot see her own progress asks for her money back in week six. One refunded eight week package at a typical $3,400 rate erases the margin on three others.
Referrals that never get asked for
When the program ends without a written record of what changed, you have no story to send to her HR contact. A quarter of finished clients would refer if you asked at the right moment.
The eight week rail
Four stages, one visible line of forward motion
Every client sits on the same rail, so you can tell at a glance who is advancing and who needs a phone call before Friday. You set the milestones once and reuse them for everyone.
Weeks 1 and 2: inventory
Import her history, including the unpaid years. The intake worksheet converts board service, caregiving logistics and volunteer program management into hiring language she is willing to say out loud.
Weeks 3 and 4: positioning
Resume versions are tracked side by side with the roles they target. The gap statement gets drafted, rehearsed and locked, so it stops being renegotiated in every session.
Weeks 5 and 6: pipeline
She builds a target list of forty to sixty employers and starts applying. Each application has a status, a date and an owner, and stale entries surface on your Monday dashboard.
Weeks 7 and 8: interviews
Prep logs capture the questions she was actually asked, her answers and what to fix next time. Debriefs feed straight back into the resume and the target list.
The desk keeps the record so the session stays human
Open a client and you see her stage, her last three actions, her open applications and the one thing she owes you this week. No scrolling through email threads, no asking her to remind you what she sent.
Coaches tell us the change shows up in the first ten minutes of a session. Instead of reconstruction, you start with the decision she came for.
Built for the relaunch trade
Six things you stop doing by hand
Nothing here is borrowed from a generic client management tool. Each piece exists because a returning candidate needs it and a coach was rebuilding it every week in a document.
Staged milestone rails
Build a program once and assign it in two clicks: eight weeks, four stages, twenty three checkpoints, all editable per client. When a checkpoint slips, the rail turns amber on your dashboard before the client goes quiet.
Resume version history
Every draft is stored with the role family it targets and the feedback that produced it. You can compare version two against version five, and she can always download the one that matched the job she is interviewing for.
Target employer lists
She researches forty to sixty employers inside the tool, tagged by sector, commute, return program and warm contact. The list is scored, so the first ten applications go where the odds and her interest actually overlap.
Application tracking
Applied, screened, interviewing, offer, closed. Each entry carries the posting link, the version of the resume that went out and the date, so a follow up is never guesswork about what she already said.
Interview preparation logs
Before the call she drafts answers to the eight questions that panel is most likely to ask, including the gap. After the call she logs what really came up, and the pattern across clients becomes coaching material.
Program outcome reports
At week eight the desk assembles a one page record: applications sent, interviews held, salary bands targeted, milestones cleared. Send it to the client, keep it for your corporate sponsor, use it to ask for the referral.
Inside one client file
What you see when you open Danielle on a Monday
Danielle left a hospital finance team in 2016 and spent nine years running a household, a school board budget and a caregiving schedule for two parents. This is her file in week five, and it is the same shape for every client you carry.
Her rail, in her words
Four stages, twenty three checkpoints, seventeen cleared. She sees the same rail you do, which is why she has not sent you an anxious email in three weeks.
Her positioning, locked
Resume version five, targeting healthcare finance and nonprofit operations. The gap statement was written in week three, rehearsed twice, and has not been reopened since.
Her pipeline, current
Forty seven scored employers, twelve applications sent, two interviews booked and one recruiter who has gone quiet for nine days and is flagged for a nudge.
Notes that stay yours
Your observations about confidence, salary expectations and the roles she keeps talking herself out of are private to you by default. Publish a note to her portal only when you decide it helps her.
A record you can hand over
If a colleague covers your caseload for two weeks in August, she opens the same file and knows exactly where every client stands. Nothing important lives in your memory or in a notebook on your desk.
Moving your practice across
An afternoon, not a quarter
Coaches arrive here from spreadsheets, from a general purpose client manager, or from a stack of paper folders. The path is the same in all three cases and nobody has to pause their caseload to do it.
Import the caseload
Upload a CSV of your active clients with names, start dates and stage. The importer matches columns for you and shows a preview before anything is written.
Pick a program template
Start from the eight week return template, the twelve week returnship cohort, or a blank rail. Rename milestones to the words you already use with clients.
Drop in the documents
Drag current resume drafts onto each client, or connect Google Drive and Dropbox so the files stay where your clients already send them.
Invite the clients
Send portal invitations when you are ready, one at a time or in a batch. Most coaches invite their week one and week two clients first and bring the rest across at their next session.
What changes in the practice
Numbers from 412 practices, measured across 2025
These are medians from accounts with at least ten completed programs, not the best week anyone ever had. Your mix of clients will move them in either direction.
71%
of clients hold an interview by week eight
The rail forces the pipeline to open in week five rather than week seven. Applications that go out fourteen days earlier produce first round calls inside the program instead of after it.
6.5 h
a week returned to coaching
Session prep drops because the record is already assembled. Coaches reported the hours going back into two more paid clients rather than into longer evenings.
2.4x
more referrals requested
The week eight outcome report gives you a concrete moment and a concrete document to ask with. Practices that send it ask for a referral more than twice as often as those that end with a call.
88%
program completion rate
Clients who can see their own rail finish. Completion across the network sits at 88 percent, against the 61 percent these same coaches recorded before the milestones were visible to the client.
Coaches on the record
Three practices, three different caseloads
I used to run eleven women on eleven spreadsheets and I could not honestly tell you on a Monday which three were drifting. Now the amber rail tells me before coffee. Last spring I moved two clients off drift in week three and both of them interviewed at a bank by week seven.
The gap statement work is the part my clients dread and the part that sells the program. Having every rehearsal and every real interview question logged in one place means we stopped rewriting her story from scratch. My corporate sponsor at a hospital system asked for the outcome report and renewed for a second cohort.
I bill $3,400 for eight weeks and I had refunded two packages in eighteen months. Since clients can see their own progress rail, nobody has asked. One woman told me the list of forty seven employers was the first time in nine years she felt like a candidate instead of an applicant.
1,180relaunch programs completed on RelaunchDesk in 2025
3median interviews booked per client by week eight
$3,400median price of an eight week package in the network
Pricing
Priced on active clients, not on seats you do not use
A solo practice pays for a solo practice. Archived clients stop counting the day their program ends, so a busy September does not lock you into a quiet January.
Solo Coach
$29 per month
One coach, eight active relaunch clients.
- Staged milestone rails with three program templates
- Resume version history and target employer lists
- Application tracking and interview prep logs
- Client portal, calendar sync, CSV export
Coach Plus
$69 per month
Up to three coaches, twenty five active clients.
- Everything in Solo Coach, for a shared caseload
- Custom program builder with unlimited templates
- Week eight outcome reports with your own branding
- Zapier, REST API, Google Drive and Dropbox document sync
Program
$149 per month
Unlimited coaches and clients, built for cohorts.
- Everything in Coach Plus, without caseload limits
- Cohort view for corporate returnship sponsors
- Aggregate placement reporting and data processing agreement
- Named onboarding lead and quarterly program review
Every plan is billed monthly in US dollars and can be cancelled at any time from the billing screen. No annual lock in, no setup fee, and your data exports in full whenever you ask for it.
Questions coaches ask first
Straight answers before you book time with us
Solo Coach is $29 per month and carries eight active relaunch clients at a time. Coach Plus is $69 per month for twenty five, and Program is $149 per month for unlimited clients plus cohort tools. An active client is anyone with a live program, so a woman who finished her eight weeks in March is archived and no longer counts. Each tier renews month to month, and you can stop it yourself the moment a cohort wraps.
Most coaches finish in a single afternoon. You import clients from a spreadsheet, pick one of the three built in program templates, and adjust the weekly milestones to match how you already work. The median setup time across new accounts last quarter was two hours and ten minutes. If you would rather have company, we run a free ninety minute build session and stay on the call while you load your first three clients.
You can, and any coach you explicitly add to that client. The client herself sees only her own portal: her milestones, her documents, her application list. Coach notes are private by default and never appear in her view unless you publish them. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, hosted in United States regions, and we do not train any model on your client files.
Yes. Calendar sync works with Google Calendar and Microsoft 365, so session times land on the milestone rail automatically. Documents can live in Google Drive or Dropbox if you prefer to keep resumes where your clients already share them. Zapier and a documented REST API cover invoicing, email marketing and anything else in your stack. Job board links from LinkedIn, Indeed and company career pages paste straight into the application tracker.
You cancel in the billing screen and the plan stops at the end of the current month. Before that date you can export everything: clients, milestones, resume versions, application history and interview logs as CSV files plus the original documents in a zip archive. We keep your account in a read only state for thirty days in case you change your mind, then delete it. Nothing is held hostage and there is no exit fee.
Eight weeks is the length of the program, not a promise of a signed offer. What the structure reliably produces is a finished resume, a target list of forty to sixty employers, a rewritten story for the gap, and a first round of live applications. Across 1,180 programs completed on RelaunchDesk in 2025, 71 percent of clients had at least one scheduled interview by week eight and the median was three. The women who stall are almost always the ones who go quiet in weeks three and four, which is exactly where the milestone rail flags them for you.
The Relaunch Practice
Field notes for the coach running the caseload this week
Our magazine answers the questions coaches send us, one question per piece, with the sequence, the numbers and the wording you can put in front of a client tomorrow.
practical guide
How do I build an eight week relaunch program a client will actually finish?
A week by week structure for return to work coaching, with the milestone order that keeps momentum: target list before resume, evidence before narrative, and outreach before polish.
numbers and benchmarks
How much should I charge for a twelve week career relaunch package this year?
How relaunch coaching packages are actually priced in the US market, what goes into the cost floor, and how to model your own rate from delivery hours rather than guessing at what feels fair.
regulation and compliance
What can I legally tell a client about age discrimination during her job search?
The ADEA, state age rules and the EEOC charge process explained for coaches, including where advice ends and legal practice begins, and how to talk about graduation dates and gap years safely.
Book a working demo
Bring one real client file and we will build her rail on the call
Thirty five minutes, no slides. Tell us how you run week one and we will show you the same program inside the desk, with your milestones and your language. If it does not fit your practice, we will say so.
Demos run Monday through Thursday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm Eastern. We reply to every request within one business day.