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Clear, honest career coaching that helps you get your direction right, so you compete for the right roles on your own terms.
Whether you're finishing your studies, weighing up a move within Malta's iGaming or fintech scene, or stepping up into a leadership role, the hard part is rarely a lack of ambition. It's knowing where to aim, how to tell your story, and what actually moves a hiring decision. A career coach helps you cut through that with practical work on your goals, your CV, your interviews and how you come across to a market.
Guidanceforge is run by Daniel, a Malta-based coach who holds a Level 7 (MQF/EQF) Award in Coaching & Mentoring. He also does the hiring. As Director of AI Platform, DevOps & Cybersecurity at a Malta iGaming company, he leads teams and sits on the other side of the table, reviewing CVs, running interviews and deciding who progresses. So the advice you get reflects how decisions actually get made here, rather than something recycled from a template.
This page is the starting point. Below you'll find who coaching helps, what a session involves, and how online sessions work. There are dedicated services for your CV, your interview preparation and your LinkedIn profile, but most people start with a conversation about the bigger picture first.
Coaching works across every stage. Students and recent graduates use it to translate a degree into something an employer recognises, and to work out which of Malta's sectors (iGaming, fintech and finance, tech, tourism and hospitality, maritime, professional services) actually fit their strengths. Mid-career professionals use it to plan a considered move, negotiate better, or reset after redundancy or a stall. Executives and senior specialists use it to position for leadership roles, tighten how they tell their story, and prepare for the smaller, higher-stakes shortlists that senior hiring in a small market tends to produce.
International and relocating professionals make up a large part of Malta's workforce, and coaching is especially useful there. Knowing how local employers read overseas experience, and making your work eligibility clear rather than a question mark, can be the difference between a callback and silence.
Sessions are practical and led by what you need rather than a fixed script. A first conversation usually maps where you are, where you want to be, and the honest gaps in between: your direction, your fit with the market, and how you're currently coming across on paper and in the room. From there the work is concrete. We clarify your goals, plan a search, strengthen how you talk about your experience, and get you ready for real conversations with employers.
You'll get direct feedback rather than reassurance. Because Daniel hires and leads teams in Malta, he can tell you how a CV or an interview answer is likely to land with a decision-maker, and where you're underselling or overreaching. When the priority is one specific asset, coaching feeds naturally into the focused CV, interview and LinkedIn services. But the aim of the bigger coaching work is your own judgement and your plan, so you can keep making good calls long after the session ends.
All sessions run online by video call, so it makes no difference whether you're in Malta or abroad. The coaching works just as well for direction-setting, CV review, interview practice and planning, and it lets you rehearse in the same video format so many interviews now use. Malta's market still runs heavily on networks, referrals and local context, and because Daniel lives and hires here, that local knowledge is built into every session no matter where you dial in from.
The format is always the same: a real conversation, honest feedback, and clear next steps you can act on, booked around your schedule wherever you are in the world.
A lot of career advice online is generic, written for large markets that don't behave like Malta's. Here the shortlists are smaller, the sectors are specific, employers value clarity on work eligibility, and a referral can carry real weight. Advice that ignores all this can send you confidently in the wrong direction.
Working with a coach who lives in the market and hires within it means the guidance is calibrated to how things actually work: which sectors are moving, how local employers read a CV, and what earns a second conversation. Combined with formal coaching training, that gives you both the craft of a good coach and the instincts of someone who makes hiring decisions.
If any of this sounds like where you are, the best first step is a conversation.
A career coach helps you clarify your direction, plan your next move, and present yourself better to employers through your CV, your interviews and LinkedIn. At Guidanceforge, coaching is practical and grounded in real hiring experience in Malta's market. The focus is on improving your odds and your craft, not on promising a specific outcome.
Students, professionals and executives all benefit. Students use it to turn a degree into an employable story, professionals to plan a considered move or a reset, and executives to position for senior roles. It's also useful for international professionals relocating to Malta who want to understand how local employers read overseas experience.
Yes, all sessions are online, by video call. That works equally well whether you're in Malta or abroad, including if you're relocating to the island, and it lets you rehearse in the same video format many interviews now use. It's a real conversation with direct feedback and clear next steps, booked at a time that fits your schedule.
Daniel lives and hires in Malta. He's Director of AI Platform, DevOps & Cybersecurity at a Malta iGaming company and holds a Level 7 Award in Coaching & Mentoring. So the advice reflects how decisions actually get made in Malta's sectors, rather than generic guidance written for large markets that work very differently.
Pricing is transparent and charged per session, and you can see the details on the services page. Payment is by Revolut after your session, and no card is required on the website. Your first step is a free discovery call, which carries no cost or obligation.
Most people start with a career coaching conversation to set direction and priorities, then move into focused work on their CV, interview preparation or LinkedIn profile as needed. If you already know you need one specific thing, you can begin with that service directly, and the discovery call helps you decide.
Book a free 15-minute discovery call. No pressure, no obligation.