{"id":17536,"date":"2016-04-19T11:50:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T19:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=17536"},"modified":"2016-04-19T11:54:42","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T19:54:42","slug":"what-is-career-coaching-and-why-do-people-hire-career-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/what-is-career-coaching-and-why-do-people-hire-career-coaches\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Career Coaching and Why Do People Hire Career Coaches?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/what-is-career-coaching-you-have-what-it-takes-to-become-a-career-coach\/908\/\">What is career coaching<\/a> 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?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17539\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17539\" src=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/job-interview-437026_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"Career Coach\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/job-interview-437026_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/job-interview-437026_960_720-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/job-interview-437026_960_720-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Career Coach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Questions About Career Coaching<\/h3>\n<p>You&#8217;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 claim as a career coach. Well, here&#8217;s answers to a few questions about the career coaching industry.<\/p>\n<h3>What is Career Coaching?<\/h3>\n<p>Career coaches help clients with all aspects of their careers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Determining the best career choice<\/li>\n<li>Figuring out what careers are currently the best choices.<\/li>\n<li>Helping with the interview process.<\/li>\n<li>Creating a resume that stands out.<\/li>\n<li>Helping to determine potential career choices and educational pathways for high school and college students<\/li>\n<li>Helping clients return to the workplace after a long absence.<\/li>\n<li>Helping people change careers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Career coaches offer coaching in all relevant career topics and work with all types of clients, young and old. You can narrow your target market by creating a niche or keep your target market as wide-ranging as possible. Basically, career coaches help clients make informed decisions about their career choices, development, and trajectory.<\/p>\n<h3>Why Do People Hire Career Coaches?<\/h3>\n<p>We answered the question \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>what is career coaching<\/strong><\/span>?\u201d Now, we can talk about reason that people hire career coaches.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To help transition out of a job or career that is unfulfilling.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To help start a new career.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To help find the right career.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To help prepare for a job search<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To get ideas of the right education needed for specific careers.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To help with resume writing and interview skills.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To learn how to talk with employers about salary, benefits, responsibilities, promotions, and more.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 To help build the right social media presence for your job search and career.<\/p>\n<h3>What are Career Coaching Benefits?<\/h3>\n<p>Most of the benefits have been listed above. But, clients usually learn more about themselves and what career is ideal or likely to produce some combination of happiness, wealth, personal fulfillment, professional success, and life balance. They also learn job hunting skills and marketable skills that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. \u00a0Perhaps most of all, they have the support, encouragement, and accountability that comes from a coach.<\/p>\n<h3>Hire a Career Coach or Become a Career Coach<\/h3>\n<p>If you want to know \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>what is career coaching<\/strong><\/span> and why do people hire career coaches\u201d because you are thinking of hiring one to help your career move forward, then I hope you have learned enough to call one up and see what they have to offer.<br \/>\nIf you want to know \u201cwhat is a career coach and why do people hire career coaches\u201d because you are thinking of becoming one, then I hope this information has motivated you to seriously consider this personally rewarding and professionally satisfying career.<\/p>\n<p><b>SPECIAL BONUS<\/b> \u2014 <i>If you would like step-by-step blueprints for generating a massive income from high paying coaching clients, I invite you to claim your <\/i><b><i>FREE ACCESS<\/i><\/b><i> to the \u201c<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coachestrainingblog.com\/sp.php?adsource=blogtext\"><b><i>Life Coach Salary Secrets<\/i><\/b><\/a><i>\u201d video toolkit. Go<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coachestrainingblog.com\/sp.php?adsource=blogtext\"> <b><i>HERE<\/i><\/b><\/a><i> to get it <\/i><b><i>FREE<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/bio\/fred-phillips\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Fred Philips<\/b><\/a><br \/>\nBusiness Coach<br \/>\nWriting Team, Coaches Training Blog Community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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? 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