Career coaching today is helping people make the most of the new world of work, the no-jobs world. Today the idea, that a great career means getting a good job and rising up through the ranks at one corporation, is absolute non-sense. Today, and tomorrow, careers and jobs are not synonymous. And the independent agent is not just king, but may be the last and only one left standing.

Life in the Brave New World outside of the Corporate Womb

At first glance this might seem like an impossible shift, but let’s remember that less than a hundred years ago, the vast majority of people were entrepreneurs, and very few Americans worked for corporations. So in a sense, this is just a large career course correction. But with true entrepreneurialism all but bred out of Americans and without the support of corporate structures, today’s worker desperately needs guidance and structure that career coaching can provide.

Career Coaching Can Guide Us back to the New, Old World of Work

The problem is that most workers are too busy panicking to put this all in perspective. That is exactly where career coaching comes in. Today, career coaches are desperately needed to help re-inject hope into our society. Hope and courage. That is because only by helping people manage their fear and overcome their own self doubts, can we reestablish sanity to our society and our economy.

The Critical Role of the Career Coach Today

The new role of the career coach is a combination of business coach, strategy coach and accountability coach. The career coach’s traditional skills of helping people determine what work they are most likely to be happy doing, must be combined with coaching on solorepreneurship, time and project management, and accountability. In addition, totally new skills in forming dynamic project driven organizations will be critical for anyone wanting to do the kind of work that used to be the realm of the corporation. So you can see that the success of our new, no-job economy lies squarely in the hands of career coaches.

Dave Iuppa
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach

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Career coaching is not about coaching people to do their best in the wrong job. It is about learning from the past and from assessments to determine the right position in the future for each individual candidate. Then it is about coaching that person to get out of their own way, so they can just be themselves and naturally achieve great results in their ideal position.

Don’t Fall for “Dating Behavior”

Interviewing is the typical way of selecting employees. But don’t be fooled. Interviewing is “dating behavior” at its worst. Too often candidates go into dating mode, trying hard to be attractive rather than critically evaluating if this is the best position for them. On the employer’s side, the interviewer naturally is attracted to the people that they like – that is, people most like themselves. Also keep in mind that since the interviewee is trying to look their very best, the interviewee will never look as good as they do at the interview!

Learn from the Past or Repeat Its Mistakes

In determining the ideal position for a candidate, learn from the past. Do a detailed interview asking them to go through each job that they have had. Ask the responsibilities, what skills they used, what skills they learned, what they liked and disliked, how long they stayed and why they left the position. Look for patterns and draw conclusions as a basis for your career coaching.

Use Assessments for Profound Insights in Career Coaching

Combine assessment results with employee interview results for the best career coaching. Beyond personal style, often presented as their D-I-S-C scores, the candidate’s values also need to be included. This combination greatly increases the value of the assessment and assures that career moves will truly fit the candidate.

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Dave Iuppa
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Assessments are scientifically validated psychological instruments. When properly administered and interpreted, assessments can give tremendous insights that you can use to supercharge your career coaching. Assessments, along with a comprehensive analysis of a client’s work history, give the coach what they need to make the perfect match.

If Career Coaches Are Matchmakers, What Do They Match?

Matches are made based on “style”—how we do what we do, “values” – why we do what we do, and “attitudes” – how we decide what we decide. With assessment results and a detailed analysis of work history, you can predict how the candidate will interact with others based on their profiles. Career coaching is a two way street. You can also predict the client’s “fit” in various jobs, teams and companies, depending on the characteristics of the jobs, and the styles, values and attitudes of the teams and companies.

Why Interviews Are Not Enough

It has been said that “it is all downhill from the interview”, meaning that people are at their best at the interview. And even if the candidate is being their genuine self, we tend to choose people in interviews that we like – meaning that if we feel personally comfortable with someone during an interview, we tend to select them for the job. The problem is that the job is not having them over to watch a football game and enjoying their company. The job is the job. And what is more relevant is the answer to the question: Does this candidate have the characteristics of people who have been very successful in this job, in companies like this company, in the past.

Career Coaching Works even after the Match Has Been Made

Just as assessments can tell us which candidate will most naturally be successful – without a lot of drama – they can also tell us how to coach all the members of the team to get the best results for all. So whether you are career coaching before the hiring is done, or after, using and understanding assessments can make all the difference for you and your client.

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Dave Iuppa
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Whether career coaching is your main focus or just an incidental element of your practice, today it may be your area of greatest contribution. Here’s why.

Unemployment Is on Everybody’s Mind

No one – yes, no one – has a problem sacrificing for the greater good. And no one – yes, no one –feels good about being sacrificed by those “fat cats” who in the final scene escape to somewhere that the normal man cannot imagine, like Aruba. So faced with this scene of absolute betrayal, what do millions and millions of Americans feel? And what do you and all the coaches in America have to offer? Well, that is the question that each of us must answer.

Career Coaching Means Helping People Reestablish Their Sense of Dignity

It is clearly unfair that this has fallen to us. Yet in Career Coaching, who is in a better position to respond. Each of us must open our hearts and try to understand the pain and terror felt by those who are experiencing the brunt of this situation. As coaches, our highest calling must be to help those people to reestablish their sense of self-worth and self-reliance.

For Those with a Job Watching this Betrayal, What Can They Count On?

In Career Coaching, we have two roles. First, we must encourage and assist those who have lost their jobs. Second, we must assist and guide those with jobs to determine their next steps. We can use assessments to determine peoples’ styles and values. We can listen and we can care.

We can care. We can help. And we can be coaches.

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Dave Iuppa
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If you haven’t decided on a niche for your coaching yet, you may be asking “What is career coaching and what particular skills does it require?” Well, there are two different types of coaching that both deal with careers and career changes. Each is quite different from the other, and both provide a valuable service to clients who are looking for a new career or a change in direction in their current career.

Career Coaching To Find A New Direction

When potential clients ask you “What is career coaching exactly?” that’s your opportunity to begin to open their eyes to new possibilities. Many, if not most people start out on a career path sometime in their late teens or early twenties. They may get a particular degree or qualification or they may do an apprenticeship of some kind or even just start at the bottom of the ladder in some industry and plan to work their way up. But what often happens is that someone starts out on a particular path and then can’t find their way off that path, even when it turns out they hate that industry or their job bores them. As a career coach, you can begin to expand their horizons. Help them remember what they love to do, what they find exciting, what aspects of what they are doing currently they want to keep and what they want to leave behind.

What Is Career Coaching For When Your Client Knows What He Wants To Do?

The second kind of career related coaching is more of the consultant type of coaching. Is your client clear he wants a job in the real estate business? Then your coaching can help him learn better interview skills, how to dress for the job and how to best present himself to a possible employer. Does your client want to start his own business? You can increase his chances of being successful by helping him put his best foot forward with potential financial or other business partners.

Depending on your pre-coaching background, career coaching might be the field the interests you. Then,when someone asks “What is career coaching?” you can explain that it’s what you do to help your clients find careers that are as enticing and rewarding for them as coaching is for you.

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Dorine G. Kramer
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach

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