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What is career coaching?

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

Career coaches help clients come up with strategies and discover solutions, establish realistic goals, develop action plans, institute motivation, 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 a career coach do for me?

A career coach will challenge you, inspire you to do your best, and will support you each step of the way. They will 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. A career coach is your personal advocate and teaming with a career coach means you will 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 clients to develop proficiencies, whereas a career counselor helps clients overcome deficiencies. Therapy often deals with the client'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.

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