What is career coaching?

Career coaching is championing and helping you reach your ultimate career goals. In a coach/client relationship, you hold the agenda. The coaching sessions are focused on you and what you want to achieve in your career.

An ongoing coach/client relationship strengthens awareness of what may be holding you back, the road blocks you may be facing, and helps you focus on what your goals.

As your career coach, I help you come up with strategies and discover solutions, establish realistic goals, develop action plans, institute motivation, and build self-confidence—creating excitement during the process!

Helping you take charge of your career by changing it from what it is today to something you have always dreamed of having.

What will you do for me as my career coach?

As your career coach, I'll challenge you, inspire you to do your best, and will support you each step of the way. I'll hold you accountable for your actions, provide you with feedback, support you when times get difficult, and will be honest and up front.

Unlike friends, co-workers or even spouses, a career coach will tell you like it is, not letting you get off easy when it comes to stepping up to the plate. As your career coach, I'm your personal advocate. Teaming with a career coach means you'll have a safe harbor during a time that is often filled with stress, doubt, and fear.

Career coaching will serve you best if you are...

  ready to make the commitment to achieve.

  willing to put forth effort and do the work.

  willing to let the coach do the coaching.

  willing to "try on" new concepts or different ways of doing things.

  willing to change self-defeating behaviors that limit your success.

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

  acting on your own free will and not at the request of others.

What Career Coaching Is Not

A career coach is not a counselor or therapist. A career coach helps you develop proficiencies, whereas a career counselor helps clients overcome deficiencies.

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 be what the client wants it to be.

Those who are suffering from depression, anxiety, or problems that interfere with life situations should seek professional counseling. Career coaches do not tell their clients what to do with their lives.

[Return to Top]