Life’s too short to be in a job you’re not happy in. With focus and attention, together we can create a career that you will love. You don’t need to know exactly where you want to end up before you start – you just need to know that you want more and be willing to take steps to make it happen.

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I have tried to create “titles” to help identify where you are in your career and that appeal to different periods in our lives, but the truth is that after our initial meeting I tailor a program for you, so these are just overviews of when and how a Career Coach can help you.

THE CAREER STARTER

The first step is getting really clear on exactly what it is you’re looking for, by working out what career path will suit your skills and your strengths. More and more graduate employers are switching to a Strengths based recruitment process, and it’s been proven that graduates who have jobs that align to their skills and strengths are more likely to be successful in the long run in their role. 

Using my experience of assessing and recruiting graduates into large global companies, I have helped a number of student and graduate job hunters focus their application strategy and secure a place on their ideal graduate programme. Through a combination of coaching and recruitment exercises followed by detailed and specific feedback, clients are able to develop their confidence, self-awareness and their skill set to succeed in graduate selection processes.

THE CAREER KICKSTARTER

Helping those that have been out of the work place of a period of time, working with them to give the confidence to return to.

Showing them that life skills are valuable as well as CV & Interview skills, changes in workplace practice and transitioning into the workplace, which can be a hard change for everyone..

THE CAREER CHANGER

The average person has over twelve different jobs in their lifetime, and it’s very rare that we start our career on the perfect career path that we want to stay on for life. A career change could mean anything from a shifting into a new job at a different company, to a complete change into a brand new industry. 

There are many important elements to changing job, from developing your personal brand to widening and deepening your network.

Career coaching provides structure and guidance to plan and execute a career change into a job you really want, even if you don’t know what that ideal job is just yet.

THE FUTURE LEADER

After working in a professional job for a few years, it’s likely you’ll progress into a position of increased responsibility. This could mean leading a team for the first time, or simply having an increased workload and more ambitious deliverables. As someone who started managing a team early on in my career, I understand both the rewards and the challenges associated with a significant increase in responsibility. 

Career coaching can help you develop the internal skills and resources you need to be an effective leader. This could include the ability to manage upwards as well as downwards, developing communication skills to enable you to have difficult conversations, and the ability to manage a high volume of urgent priorities while balancing multiple stakeholder relationships.