Transform Your Career

You can watch all the Youtube videos in the world – real self-help books until you’re blue in the face. At some point, many of my clients decide they want personalized attention to specific challenges they’re facing to:

• Navigate difficult relationships and political dynamics.

• Handle challenging questions and concerns.

• Develop certainty and confidence around strengths, interest and important decisions.

• And much much more.

A career coach can help you explore different career options and set realistic and achievable goals. This partnership won’t solve everything without effort and commitment on your part. But it can be a channel through which you are motivated, focused and supported to make progress faster and more effectively than working on your own.

I am committed to your tangible results. I studied to be a life coach for the background and experience but am most comfortable calling myself a career and business coach, because the outcomes can be linked to real returns on your investment.

It can be challenging to find a legitimate career coach, but not impossible. Here, I have listed out a few steps to find a career coach:

• Use coaching network hubs like Noomii.com. On sites like these, you can filter for specific results, see independent rankings, profiles, and testimonials that might match the support you’re looking for.

• Career coaching can be expensive, and determining your budget is crucial before looking for a coach. You can compare coaches' fees and see what they offer for your budget. Just be sure to consider the calibre of support you’re looking for and the value of your goals. If you have ambitious goals to grow your business or your salary by say 20%, it may not be realistic to think you can achieve this without commensurate investment in your own personal and professional development.

• Ultimately, the best way to determine if a coach is legitimate and a good fit for you is to speak with them directly. Many career and business coaches offer consultations, sometimes for free, for you to feel comfortable with the fit of their experience, approach and personality. Trust is a big factor in successful coaching partnership and, in my opinion, that’s a very personal sense you can only develop through direct conversation. Do your homework and then go with your gut.

There are many reasons one might choose to hire a career coach to help them define and achieve personal and professional goals. Benefits of career coaching might include:

• An independent, non-judgemental advisor entirely focused on your best interest.

• Support to the discovery of your individual passion, purpose, and values and then applying that insight to your work and career development choices.

• An experienced partner helping you to discover and consider your career options

• A sounding board to help you navigate difficult decisions that involve competing requirements and priorities.

• Support to define achievable career goals and then design realistic plans to reach them.

• Help to improve your resume, cover letters, LinkedIn profile, and other personal branding material.

• Coaching and consultation to improve your performance in interviews, including strategies to negotiate a higher salary.

• Support to manage the anxiety, imposter syndrome and internal politics that can accompany your transition to a new or more senior position.

• Overcome challenges, obstacles, or fears holding that hold you back from advancing your career.

• Learn new skills, strategies, or tools to enhance your productivity.

• Work to increase your confidence and overall job satisfaction.