Career Coaching focuses on work or issues related to your career, or job(s). A Career Coach helps individuals identify what they want and need from their career(s), then make the appropriate decisions and take the necessary steps that will enable them achieve their career objectives in balance and in tune, with the rest of their lives. Keeping a good balance between career and other areas of one's life is integral to experiencing more joy in life.
We start our careers, with the aspiration and goal to quickly rise up to the upper levels of executive positions, only to discover that with and over time, only those with certain criteria and skills, make it to the top. Our goal here is to give rise to more leaders, and not just those in a managerial role. Career Coaching has thus emerged in the world, to work with candidates in order to help them achieve their career growth by nurturing and facilitating the skills needed to get onto the fast track for an executive job opening or promotion. This type of coaching is not strictly limited to executives, however, since its valuable lessons may be applied to any person interested in professional growth and better options for their future.
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STRIVE. Be At Your Best...
The key to nailing a quality job often comes in the interview. Many people enter an interview unsure about what they should be saying or how they should be promoting themselves. An interview should be more than an audition of your skills. Career coaching will help you determine how best to sell yourself as a vital asset to a company when you are in the process of interviewing for a management or executive position. The best interviewers are not necessarily those who have the best resumes, but those who are able to convince the hiring committee that they will lose money by selecting someone else.
Prepare. Yourself On Paper...
Though a good interview and a good resume do not go hand in hand, it is nevertheless important to understand how best to put yourself and your corporate skills down on paper. The resume that you send out to a company in the hopes of getting hired will be one of dozens or hundreds that land up on a human resource department desk. How can you make it stand out? The solution is not fonts or italics but rather projecting the exact skills that every business wants to hire.
Learn. The Steps To Get Ahead...
Nowadays, it is possible for us to get back into school to further our education and earn more degrees if we want to. This isn't always the ultimate solution when it comes to getting to the job we want. How many of us have degrees in one field, but are actually working in another, or practicing something else? Hence the goal here, is not just to make the best of what is in the books, but to also gain another perspective and see the hiring process through the lens of an employer versus the candidate, and this is what career coaching can help you learn. You will learn the steps to get ahead and stand out.
plan. What Is Your Career’s Next Move?
What you want out of you career could be different from one person to the other. Hence, what your target is will determine the type of career coaching approach. You may want to take your company to a higher degree of efficiency to make higher profits, or your may want to get promoted into the next job of the job ladder, or you may simply want to get an angle on what makes managers successful, what makes a leader so different from a manager and how you can be one. Career coaching is your way of looking at your career in the next fifteen to twenty years as opposed to a short-term look or just how to get through the next fifteen to twenty days.
SEARCH. For the Best Job...
Yes. It can be overwhelming to search for a new job. Not to mention the surge of emotions and confusion that is usually accompanied by a lost job, hopes to transition into a new one at first seems to be fragile and far-fetched. A career coach is there to assist you not only on the job search that will get you the greatest job satisfaction, but also build up how you see yourself during the process. Believing that you can is half way there, and believing that you will makes the job complete! Willpower is key to making this step work.
LEAD.Call The Shots...
By now, you have found your dream job. It is now time to negotiate your dream pay. Together, the career coach and the candidate will seal the deal by training potential candidates on how to demand the best possible compensation for the services, ranging from a good salary with benefits to a decent retirement package a the conclusion of their career(s).