Career Coaching

Career coaching is getting the support, help, and guidance you need to figure things out to reach your ultimate career goals. A career coach is there to ask questions, give you guidance, and help you overcome whatever challenges you’re facing in your job search.

A critical success factor is finding a coach who is the right coach for you.

In a coach/client relationship, you hold the agenda. Your coach is trained and skilled in providing you with insight, support, and the direction you need to achieve the goals you have in mind. In other words, position you to reach your goals sooner than later when trying to do it on your own.

Many things come into play and depending on what your objectives are will determine the focus of your coaching sessions.

An ongoing coach/client relationship strengthens awareness of what’s holding you back or showing up as roadblocks that’s getting in the way of moving forward and being able to focus your efforts on reaching the goal(s) you’re targeting.

A career coach helps you establish realistic goals, discover solutions to challenges you’re up against, develop action plans, build self-confidence, and instils motivation to act

Think of your coach as your positive enabler. Helping you take charge of your career.

Working with a career coach is working with someone who genuinely shares the same goal you have, creating and adding to your vision throughout the process! The one-on-one career coaching experience is an excellent way to:

• receive personalised support, and guidance when faced with career decisions.

• determining what steps to take and strategies to use.

• come up with a customised plan that will keep you on track to accomplish what you set yourself out to do.

What a career coach is NOT…

A career coach is not a counsellor or therapist. A career coach helps you develop proficiencies

Therapy often deals with a person’s history and the “why’s” of that history; coaching deals with the future and the “how's” of making the future become what the client wants it to become.

To benefit from career coaching, you must be ready and willing to be coached. Meaning, you’re open to new ideas, willing to make changes, welcome feedback (both redirecting and reinforcing), and are ready to act. Results come from action, making all your hard work and efforts worthwhile

What will a career coach do for you? A career coach will…

• challenge and inspire you to do your best.

• be there to support you each step of the way.

• give you feedback, back you when times get difficult, and will be honest and up front.

• hold you accountable.

• tell it like it is—not letting you get off easy when it comes to stepping up to the plate (unlike friends, co-workers, and spouses).

Career coaching will serve you best IF you’re willing to…

• put forth effort and do the work.

• let the coach do the coaching.

• “try on” new concepts or different ways of doing things.

• change self-defeating behaviours and beliefs that limit your success.

• And, you’re acting of your own free will (not at the bidding of others)

• ready to make the commitment to achieve

• serious about moving forward and making changes to reach your goals.

Bottom Line: No action, no results.