What Can Career Coaching Do For You?

. For most of our clients, this is the first time they have ever seen what they really look like on paper. This report also gives many examples of jobs or careers that our clients would excel in.

The interesting part is that quite often we hear people say “oh yea, I wanted to do that when I was little” or “I never thought that I could make money doing that.” We then take the information found on their DISC profile, and begin identifying the jobs or industries that our clients want to explore further.

Converting the results into concrete action

During this time we encourage and facilitate job shadowing and reach out to others already working in this field to receive valuable feedback on the benefits or pitfalls that they have experienced on their journey as well.

Job shadowing is when we get clients to follow someone else for a day or two who is working in the career field that they would like to be working in. It’s usually not paid but it gives the candidate an idea of what, for example, “a day in the life of a dog trainer” looks like.

Once the client figures out an industry he or she would like to begin targeting, we also create a résumé that includes a summary of transferable skills that can be used in this new career along with cover letters and reference sheets. Career coaches then sit down with clients and practice the interview process. We cover the most frequently asked questions in interviews and prepare the client to be able to answer the questions in a way that showcases their strengths in their previous job experiences.

The ultimate payoff

The entire career coaching process typically lasts three months from start to finish. The results are nothing less than life-changing. One hundred percent of the time clients are so relieved that they just began moving forward!

They usually find out so much about themselves and realize they can make a living doing what they love. They become inspired and full of life. Their health changes, their family relationships are much better and they just feel they are “doing what they should be doing.”

We have all heard the saying “life is too short.” Well, life is too short to be merely surviving in a job that yields a paycheck and nothing else. Career coaching provides the ground work to begin moving away from the destruction of merely existing and beginning the path to walking (and working) in abundance.

Make Tomorrow Better Than Today!

Ed Burns is the founder of The Provision Group, a Financial and Career Coaching company. He is a graduate of Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania and has held many executive corporate positions mostly with GE (General Electric). Ed has been married for 13 years to his wife Megan, who is also a financial and career coach. Together they have two children, ages 2 and 4.

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Article courtesy of Kevin Mercadante with OutOfYourRut.com