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A career change
coach from Feroce Coaching will form with you an ongoing
relationship of career advice and collaboration that
will have as its primary goal your taking definitive
action toward realizing your career change aspirations. In the tradition of the best advice or consulting, those
aspirations may not end up being what you thought you
should be doing when you sought out
Feroce Coaching's career coaches. It may just be that once we really
start to get honest with each other, we'll help you to
uncover something surprising.
At Feroce
our career change coaches excel at
the unconventional penetrating
observation. If we don't come up with a fresh
observation -- some new angle on your situation that
neither you nor your friends have yet thought of -- your
first session is free. Wait -- it's already
free. Then let's just say we would be very
surprised.
By becoming a Feroce client, you will also
have access to our
Strategic
Life Planning Process, "The Creation of the Future Self", a
series of well-written and informative chapters and
self-assessment tools
specially constructed from our own experience and dozens
of career-oriented books -- let us save you the time and
money of buying and wading through so many
resources. We've got them in one place.
In addition, we have the expertise to guide you through
powerful, state-of-the-art career
assessment tools.
In any change of
careers, the "career resources" that matter
most are in you,
but it's natural to be able to benefit from unbiased
help in drawing them out.
The job of a
good career change coach, then, is to help you articulate and
reach new career goals more quickly and more easily than
you would be able to alone . So it's our advisory
role to:
● Use proven testing
tools and trained listening skills to assess your
talents and career aptitudes
● Identify the
places where you appear to have become stuck, unearth
the reasons, and provide counsel in unsticking
you. For this, look at our
life
coaches' experience.
● Discover
patterns among the events in your life that have
brought you the most joy
● Clarify what
you believe you want to achieve and start to plan
career management
● Either
immediately align ourselves with what you want to
achieve in your career or, if we sense a disconnect,
probe more carefully, just like any good management
consultant, to ensure you are defining the problem in
the most beneficial way, and asking the right
questions
● Draw out
solutions and strategies from you, and contribute some
of our own advice and information for a career
development plan
● Agree with
your request to hold you responsible and accountable
How
is career coaching
different from career counseling? There are several ways, but the most
fundamental are:
● Experience --
we have not always been in the job of giving career
advice -- that's a good way to ensure your advice isn't
very informed. Instead, we've been through
college, graduate school, the resumes and interviews --
and then changed careers and industries and done it all
again.
● Follow-through to
(and Accountability for) Outcomes -- career
counselors try to assess skills (see above) and give
advice. Your relationship with them may last a few
weeks, or it could last longer, but rarely is the focus
on results, or outcomes: coaches offer not just
advice on a good career for you, but
follow-through on all the ways to get there, and
counsel and tail-kicking until you get
there. That's why you're much more likely to get
where you want to go with a
career coach (the British word for
a "bus" -- something that takes you from one
place to the next) than with just counsel, no matter
how good it is.
● Scope -- For
better or worse, career counselors are not holistic in
their approach. They will not examine how your
career goals are impeded because your life is out of
balance, nor inquire into how well you are answering the
needs of your health, nor work with you to improve your
relationships -- or strategize with you about how to
present your career wishes to your significant
other. And so on.
There are times when
we're just ready to ask someone to shine a light on us
and help us to see where changes need to be made. We can
also provide career-oriented guidance and information
on:
Your Current Job
● strategizing how
to get along better with your boss or colleagues
●
finding a career mentor in your company, city, or beyond
● improving your
leadership, managerial, and communications skills
● getting a promotion or increase in compensation
● avoiding a poor job performance review
● making the
most of a new position
A Job or Career Change
● figuring out what it
is you want to do by
- brainstorming and
clarifying your skills and values
- Perhaps more importantly, by exploring your loves --
what in your life has given you fulfillment, regardless
of whether it's related to work?
● being put in touch
with people we know in the fields of your interest, so
you can interview them about what they do and how they
like it
● applying for a different job in your
company
● developing your career strategy
● networking
Job Applications, Interviews,
Comparisons
● creating or
improving your
resume and cover letters
● preparing
for interviews and the questions you'll be asked
(including how to research the companies you're
interviewing with)
● negotiating job and compensation
offers
● preparing in case you suddenly have to find
a new job
● deciding whether additional education
could really help, including identifying the type of any such education,
evaluating the different institutions where it's
offered, and selecting courses of study or
classes
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Contact us about
your own career change coach now.
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