Hopefully in your career coaching practice you are working with your clients on career coach interview questions. These are questions that a job applicant can ask an interviewer that will make them sound more articulate, more educated, and more interested in the job. Practice Both Answers and Questions with Your Career Coach Clients A career coach can help clients identify goals, prepare for an interview, help clients get to know themselves better, and create a plan for achieving both … [Read more...]
Offer Career Coaching Skills for Executives in Your Coaching Practice
Career coaching skills for supervisors seem like a waste of time. Why would they need to worry about career coaching skills? They really don’t need those skills for themselves since they have already forged out successful careers, and they shouldn’t be worrying about the careers of their subordinates and team members. Or should they? Career Coaching Skills For Supervisors Though supervisors and executives would be hard pressed for time to help all their employees in reaching career … [Read more...]
A Career Aptitude For Coaches
A career aptitude test is the perfect coaching tool for coaches in all areas of the industry to use in the practices. Effective career aptitude tests will help identify your talents, passions, likes, skills, hobbies, personality traits, and innate abilities. Why Career Assessments Are Great Tools for Coaches Career assessments help individuals understand how a blend of personal attributes – preferences, values, abilities, motivations, and skills – impact potential success, goal … [Read more...]
What is Career Coaching and Why Do People Hire Career Coaches?
What is career coaching and why do people hire career coaches? If you become a career coach, is there a large target market waiting for your services? Will you become rich working as a career coach? Is the career coaching industry hot right now? Questions About Career Coaching You're thinking about becoming a coach and asking questions before jumping into the field. You are trying to do your due diligence before you sign up with a coaching program or switching careers and staking your … [Read more...]
How to Become a Career Counselor
If you want to become a career counselor the path usually starts with education, and goes back as far as high school. You need a high school diploma, a college degree ( majoring in psychology or something similar is best), and perhaps even a graduate degree. But, wait, what if I don't have all those degrees, you ask? If these still hope for me to become a career counselor? It's going to be much harder to get into this field without degrees. But, lets assume you made it through high … [Read more...]
The Career Coach Institute and Your New Career Coaching Business
The Career Coach Institute, founded by Marcia Bench in 2001, has become one of the most reputable career coaching institutes in the world. She combines career development knowledge with coaching to create a premier institute for career coach training and certification. She can help individuals with their careers, provide useful tools for small businesses, or help train and certify new career coaches. The CCI is one of hundreds of career coaching program around the country, so there are … [Read more...]
A Niche for You – Career Coach for Recent College Grads
Think becoming a career coach for recent college grads is a good move for your career? You might be right. It might be a good niche to become a bigger fish in a smaller pond. Why Career Coaches are Needed For College Graduates According to the Wall Street Journal, about 284,000 Americans with college degrees were working for minimum wage ins 2012. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show that only 27 percent of the jobs in the United States require a college degree (associates degree or … [Read more...]
3 Ways to Find the Best Articles About Career Coaching
Want to find articles about career coaching? Need more information about this exciting, dynamic, and rewarding career? Or, just want some information on what a career coach does because you are thinking of hiring one? Well, finding an article about career coaching is no harder than turning on your computer power switch and putting the words “career coaching” into Google, or whatever search engine you use. You can add any other words or phrases you want, depending on what information you … [Read more...]
6 Things to Know Before You Get a Career Coach Certificate
A career coach certificate will help you get your foot in the door to an exciting and dynamic career – helping others find their ultimate careers! Stop –Before You Get a Career Coach Certificate But, before you work on obtaining your career coach certification, there are a few things you should know about having a career as a career coach. Look before you leap – the old expression goes, so here is something to look at before you take that leap into career coaching. 6 Things to Know … [Read more...]
How to Find the Best Career Coach
Where and how do you find the best career coach? Is there such a thing as the best career coach? How do you find the perfect match for your needs? Career Coach Looking for a Career Coach – Start With One Question The first question you should ask when looking for the help of a career coach is “Why am I looking to hire a coach?” Are you looking for someone to help you get ahead in your current career, someone to help you change careers, or are you seeking professional help with selecting … [Read more...]
