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What is a Career Coach and How Can They Help Me Find a Job?
What everyone should know about a career coach
A person who specializes in helping other people find, reach and achieve their career dreams is known as job or career coach. This field of profession is continuously growing due to the fact that there are plenty of people who are dissatisfied with their current job. If you are in a position that you need to re-enter the working world, find a the suitable position for you or find a job that perfectly fits your personality and desired lifestyle of choice, then you are a prime candidate for hiring your personal career coach.
At the initial stages, a job coach typically asks a several questions that are specifically designed to draw out information about the client’s life goals and job experience. Another purpose of the questionnaires is to allow the job coach to determine the client’s personality and qualifications for potential positions. During these questions, it is normal for the job coach to record the whole event. After assessing the client’s answers, the job coach then talks to the client. Informing the client on his or her weaknesses and strengths, and consulting with the client in formulating future goals.
Although, the job coach and client work together, but in the end, the client has the last say on what goals he or she is going to set and pursue. The goals can be setup in a way that one goal is a stepping-stone to reach another goal. An example of these goals can be like a goal to move higher in the corporate ladder, or goal to attain higher level of education. These stepping stone goals are designed in such a way that the client will land himself on a job that he or she truly loves and enjoy doing. After the goals are in place, the next aspect that needs to be discussed would be the timeline of achieving the goals.
After the timeline setting of the goal, the client can proceed on achieving such goals, while the job coach offer advice and encouragement. A job coach’s encouragement may come wide range of forms. Sometimes a simple congratulations greeting would do, while sometime the occasion may demand for a more involved and complex form of congratulations.
Another useful aspects of having a job coach is that they help a client find a job by providing critical information about possible job openings, and imparting specific strategies and advice when it comes to applying for a specific position. Also, a job coach helps a client put together the vital paperwork to make a great application. The career coach may also do simulation interviews to help the client through the process.
A Career Coach Can Help You Through Your Career Transition
Think about this: for the first fifteen to twenty years of our lives, most of us grow in a structured environment under the supervision of mature educators. Then when it is time to start earning a living, that support structure is dropped right out from under us. Think about all the things you learned between birth and high school. Now imagine what you could do if you had a personal teacher to help you learn a new, more profitable career! It is certainly cheaper than going to college and could be done throughout the rest of your career.
A career coach may bring to mind the super motivators who put on conferences and yell things to get you pumped up, but I want to separate that image in your mind from the often humble, unassuming people who care about others and were born to help them through a life-altering career transition. These people can help and are interested in working one-on-one with you to figure out what lies ahead. They are interested in long-term relationships that are beneficial for both people and ultimately make the world a better place. It may sound cheesy as you read this, but really is that not what everyone would like to see happen as a result of their contribution to the workplace?
Coaching for Life – Are You Single And Loving It?
You are a strong willed individual with a clear sense of independence. You are self confident and devoted to experiencing life on your own. You have made the decision that marriage is not one of your life goals and you celebrate that fact. So why can’t people be happy for you?
Unfortunately, people who have not made the same decisions as you cannot phathom wanting to go solo through life. They assume that you are single because the right person has not come into your life yet. They assume you are lonely. Quite simply, they just do not understand that you are single by choice. We all have heard the term “happily married” but how often have we heard she’s “happily single”? That is because the concept is so foreign to anyone on the outside.
One of the biggest obstacles that individuals who are committed to the single lifestyle face is not having a reliable person, who understands your situation, to go to for advice. You can’t turn to your parents because they are too busy still trying to find you “Mr. Right”. A life coach may very well be your best ally when it comes to making informed decisions that will effect your career, your finances and your personal growth.
Finding a certified life coach who specializes in coaching singles is not always easy though. This person will be your mentor who will guide you through all of the plans you have for your life so you need to be very sure that you choose wisely. She must specialize in helping individuals reach their goals, she can also be a great source to network with other people who, like you, are committed to the single lifestyle.
Have you found a certified career/life coach out there who is as happily single as you are? If so, she will be the best one to guide you. She is a rare find because she understands the difficulties you face as an unmarried person in a corporate world. She has faced the same situations you will encounter in your career and can help you deal with descrimination that singles often come up against in their corporate life.
So if marriage is not one of your life goals, celebrate it and rely on those who truly understand.
January, 2010
(June 2009 issue, page 95)
