Who benefits from career coaching? Employees and job seekers who are lost, confused, frustrated, and stuck; who’ve been downsized, merged and acquired; who have questions, want answers, and need direction. Are you a likely candidate? Here are some descriptors that might help you decide.
“I’m lost. Where am I supposed to go with my career? I’m working but waking up to the fact that time’s passing and I don’t have anything to show for it.”
“I’m safe but sorry. When I was a kid I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. Then I grew up. My parents worried and wanted to be sure my future was secure. The more they worried, the more I second- guessed myself. I set aside my dreams and took a safe job. I’m in my forties now and I’ve been miserable for most of my safe working life. I need to find my way back to what I wanted to do, and I don’t know how.”
“I’m frustrated. I like what I do and I’m better at it than most of my co-workers. I’m frustrated because they’re getting the promotions and increases that I deserve. I want compensation along with recognition and I don’t know how to get it.”
“I was fired. I don’t understand why it happened so I don’t know how to explain it or get past it. I’ve lost my confidence and self respect and I don’t know how to get it back.”
“I’ve been downsized and I need to learn how to complete for job opportunities available in my local area.”
“I’m a college student with a liberal arts major and no job prospects. I want to know what I’m best suited for, so I can take the courses I’ll need for my career.”
“I’m too old and I don’t fit in; that’s the message I’m getting. I struggle with change. My experience doesn’t appear to be valued. I need guidance. Should I go back to school? Buy new clothes? Get a face-lift? Or do all three?”
“I’m invisible. I wake up and go to work. I go home and go to sleep so I can wake up and do it all over again. No one says hello, goodbye, or thank you. I want people to know that I’m more I’m worth more than a paycheck. I just don’t know how.”
“I freeze on interviews, don’t get offers, and need help. I don’t need a good book, I need a good coach.”
Career coaches don’t find you jobs, we don’t make you younger, wiser, or give you courage. We offer non-judgmental perspective, objective feedback, strategy, tactics, and direction.
We offer inventories and assessments; we ask open-ended questions; we listen to what you tell us about your blocks and barriers, aspirations, motivations, values, needs, work and life experiences. And we make sense of it, for you.
We help you understand that how you think and what you say applies to what you want to achieve. We help you see ways to optimize your strengths and strategize ways to get to the outcomes you deserve. We clarify the unknown with practical language and pragmatic techniques.
We give you the help you need to find, keep, and advance in the right job and the added perspective you need to determine when you’re in the wrong one. We do all that with you. We don’t do it for you. That’s your job.
For more information, call us at Joyce Richman and Associates Ltd., or contact your local university and community college career development office, public library, or community based organizations dedicated to providing the information and counsel you seek.
