Career Coaching Services

Find the Support that is Right for You

The career coaching services I offer are flexible and adaptable to meet your individual needs.

Single sessions
You may just have a single issue you wish to talk through in which case a one off session will be fine.

Pre-booked series
You may feel you would rather have a series of coaching sessions to enable you to work through a topic in more detail. This is particularly useful for anyone wanting professional development coaching. I offer discounted rates for anyone booking a series of sessions.

Coaching programmes
These are designed specifically to take you through a planned series of steps to help you with particular career related issues.

How Career Coaching works

Contact me via the form on this site giving your own email and/or phone number and I will get in touch so we can have a chat about how you can benefit from coaching. We can talk about what support would be the most suitable for you and whether you would like to work by phone or face-to-face. This free introductory chat lasts for around 20 minutes and carries no obligation.

If we agree to work together, I will send you a questionnaire to complete. This will help you to focus on what you want from career coaching and give me an idea of the key issues you want to work on.

Individual Career Coaching Services

• Taking some time to discuss your current work situation and decide what you want to do next
• Planning a strategy for your next promotion
• Taking stock after a disappointment eg poor appraisal or failed job application
• Thinking about and review a range of career options you may be considering
• Managing your current work more effectively

…and there are many more.

A series of session are usually more beneficial, but sometimes a single discussion can be enough to help you find a way forward. We work together at intervals to suit you.

Career Coaching Programmes

This is a 12 session programme which helps you to undertake a complete career and life review. It is broken into three stages and as you work through these you will build up a picture of what you really want to do in life and in work, you will then narrow this down to a small number of areas to research in detail and finally, we create an action plan to begin to turn your vision into reality. If you would like to take an in-depth look at your Career Personality, you can include an additional session and take the MBTI Personality Profile.

MBTI Personality Profile
Would you love to understand a bit more about what makes you tick? Would you like to understand more about why some people and activities just feel more ‘right’ to you than others?

The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a well established personality assessment tool used across the world. It will give you a fascinating insight into your own preferred ways of behaving and relating to others. This can bring a valuable element of self awareness which will help you assess the suitability of career ideas you are considering. You can take the MBTI as part of the 12 session Coaching for Transition programme, or you can try it as a stand-alone exercise. You will be sent a questionnaire to complete and return and we then arrange a 1½ hour follow up session to feed back and discuss your results.

Career Development Coaching
Perhaps you do not want to make a radical change at this stage, but you are just feeling a bit overwhelmed or jaded at work? Do you need time to take stock of what is happening for you on a day-to-day basis? Career Development Coaching is about supporting you with current work related issues.

Whatever stage or level you are in your career, I can help you make more of your present work situation. This could be reviewing how to go for your next promotion or simply dealing with a challenging situation with your current colleagues or team. It could be that you have simply lost confidence in what you are doing and need to revitalise your approach to work. Whatever your situation, career development coaching can help you to find the best way forward.

Job Search Coaching
Have you been thinking you need to move on, but just can’t find the right vacancy? Have you been ‘looking around’ for a while but nothing much has come up yet? Do you think that there are just never any jobs advertised in the field you are interested in? The Job Search Coaching programme is designed to get you over that hurdle.

This programme is about the practical process of searching for jobs. It starts with a review to clarify exactly what you are looking for so you can be absolutely clear what opportunities you are seeking. Once you have created a clear vision, the next step is to ensure you have researched it thoroughly. Then we work to create a proactive and imaginative job search action plan around your chosen goal making sure you use as wide a range of strategies as possible to help you uncover the right opportunities for you.

Effective CV Coaching
Is your CV looking tired? Do you send copies out by the dozen and they all seem to disappear into a black hole? Let me help you refresh that CV so it reaches the parts other CVs don’t reach!

Remember, your CV is usually the first contact you have with a potential employer, so it must have an immediate impact. The Effective CV Coaching programme starts with me sending you an information pack to help you get your CV on target, together with a checklist you can use to review your current CV. Use these to revise and update your CV, then send it to me to review. Once I have done this I will arrange a 1 hour coaching session to discuss your CV and to feed back further tips and suggestions for you to fine tune it.

A similar programme is available for application forms.

Interview Success Coaching
Are you applying for jobs and falling at the last hurdle? Do you freeze up when they ask you an unexpected question?

I can help you tackle interviews with confidence. This programme consists of two coaching sessions. The first is an opportunity to discuss your current approach to interviews and to identify what you are ‘selling’ and what the employer is ‘buying’ in relation to the job you are considering. The second session is a mock interview for a specific job (you supply the details of the job plus your job application) with time for feedback and discussion.

Presentation Skills Coaching
Are you terrified of making presentations? They can be very daunting, especially if a job offer depends on you pulling it off. Do you get totally tongue tied? Would you rather walk over hot coals than stand up in front of a group of people and present your ideas?

Let me coach you through the process of effective presentations and build your confidence. As with the Interview Success Coaching programme, this programme consists of two coaching sessions. In the first one we will look at how you can prepare the both content of your presentation and your own positive attitude. The second session is a chance for you have a ‘dry run’ of your topic with time for feedback and discussion.

Your Investment in getting your Career on track?

We can discuss payment methods when we have our initial conversation about coaching, but one simple option is to use the Paypal buttons above.

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