The Cure for Career Confusion
So we can focus our first coaching session on working together (rather than spending time talking about the coaching process itself), please read this Welcome and Orientation Guide to learn how we can work together most effectively.
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Congratulations, you have taken a great step to focus your time and energy on your career and creating the job and career success you want.
I am excited to start working with you to help you move your career forward.
To help you identify the good job and career directions for you, we must first identify the ‘key’ ingredients of the right job and career for you.
Congratulations, you have taken a great step to focus your time and energy on your career and creating the job and career success you want.
I am excited to start working with you to help you move your career forward.
To help you identify the good job and career directions for you, we must first identify the ‘key’ ingredients of the right job and career for you.
The focus of our first coaching session is to identify these essential elements, so by the end of our first coaching session I have the information I need to identify initial career options for you that we can discuss in our second coaching session.
So we can both be best prepared for our first session, click on the links below to download the Get Started Assessment Workbook.
By starting this career clarity coaching program you are demonstrating a willingness to invest in your life and career.
Listen to this quick motivational message to learn about the importance of taking initiative to create the life and career satisfaction that you want.
After we discuss initial job and career ideas, it’s time to research them so you can make a good decision about the best way to move your career forward.
In this module, you’ll learn different research strategies to get the unbiased and accurate information you need to make sure you choose the right new job and career direction for you.
(Note: The content in this module is reserved for clients who have completed the career clarity coaching program: www.CareerCoachNYC.com)
Module 110: How to use Job Search Profiles to support your research
Module 120: How to research job & career ideas (Fundamental Strategies)
Module 130: Advanced job & career research strategies
Module 140: Salary research tools
Module 150: Explore Industry options
Module 160: Research other people’s career transitions to roles that appeal to you
Module 170: How to research appealing job titles at companies that appeal to you
Module 180: Informational interviews
Watch this training video to learn two ‘high-level’ and simple strategies you can use to research job and career ideas, so you can determine which job and career ideas are worth investigating further.
After completing the research strategies shown in Step 1 for all preliminary career ideas, use the more advanced research strategy shown in this video training session to further research the job and career ideas that appeal (or might appeal) to you.
The benefits of completing the research strategy discussed in this instructional video include:
By completing this research and emailing the assignments to me, we will be able to: 1) evaluate the preliminary job and career ideas; 2) identify additional job and career options; 3) discuss how you can gather any additional information you need to be confident that you are making the right career choice; and/or 4) (if it’s clear one or more of the career ideas are right for you) discuss the steps you must take to make your career transition.
The instructional video included in this module shows you clever ways to research job and career ideas at companies that appeal to you.
An informational interview is an opportunity to gather insightful career recommendations and job search advice from qualified professionals by asking the right questions.
I highly recommend using informational interviews to ‘reality test’ your thoughts and assumptions about the different job and career options.
Unlike a job interview where a company employee asks the questions and the conversation is about the employer’s needs, in an informational interview you get to ask the questions and the focus of the conversation is about your career needs.
Informational interviews are appropriate for everyone regardless of where they are in their careers or their current employment situations.
You can use informational interviews to:
(1) Discover career options that match your skills, interests, and personality
(2) Assess career ideas
(3) Gather insider information to help you find the right job at a specific company
(4) Find unadvertised job openings that have little or no competition
(4) Get advice and recommendations on how to land a job in a specific field or industry
(5) Improve your interviewing skills and prepare for upcoming interviews
If you don’t know about informational interviews, simply do an online search of the term – many colleges have websites that discuss them in detail, including sample request letters and questions to ask at informational interviews.
I also have a free/public website with lots of great content on informational interviews. The site is www.InformationalInterviewArticles.com