What Can Career Coaching Do For You?

Living (and Working) in Abundance

Guest post by Ed Burns

Have you ever asked yourself the question: “What the heck am I doing in this job?” We all go through it. Tomorrow morning as you sit in traffic or slowly make your way to your cubicle, and look around—you will realize that you are not alone. Do the faces staring back at you look like they are living their passions and callings?

Probably not, yet millions of people each day are convinced that work and one’s passion are two entirely different things. Many brush this issue aside claiming “work is work and it was never meant to be enjoyable.”

Dissatisfaction’s deeper effects

“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.”—John 10:10

So if you are not living and working in “abundance” or an overflowing of satisfaction, then who is stealing your life away and destroying your soul? Based on what we just read the answer is the thief (the devil).

How many families are destroyed because of a person not working in a job or career that brings them satisfaction each and every day?

It usually starts out as “After the day I had, I need a drink” or “I’ll need another pill to get me through this morning”. It typically turns into depression on Sunday evening knowing that you have to go back into the office on Monday. Before you know it, you are drinking or popping a pill every day and your loved ones become the casualties of this cyclical struggle.

What Career Coaching can do to help

Career coaches help those that have reached their low point. Our clients typically have come to the realization that there must be more to life than punching the clock and collecting a paycheck. Our goal as Career Coaches is to help clients figure out what they are “programmed” to do and then develop a plan to get there.

The first step of the coaching process involves taking a DISC profile test. A DISC profile is an online personality test used by HR companies worldwide. The test involves answering a series of questions based on work habits and likes/dislikes. It takes twenty minutes to finish and when completed, we receive a report that shows their strengths, weaknesses, jobs or careers they would excel in. It also includes a Biblical reference of who they most closely resemble in the Bible, which is a nice extra for people of faith.

This report shows our clients’ strengths and weaknesses and provides a unique insight that very few people get to experience