What To Expect from a Career Coach
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A Career Coach can certainly help you to maximise your career potential and ensure that you actually realise your potential in terms of your working environment. But it is important to be realistic about what you can expect from a Career Coach: they can only work with the raw materials that they have i.e. you and they cannot transform you into a whole new qualified person, if you have no formal qualifications.
So, you are the material that the Career Coach has to work with and they will also have expectations of you. They will expect you to get motivated and to start taking affirmative action to help kick-start your career. They will not expect you to simply sit on your hands, shrug your shoulders and complain that you never get a good job. Any good Career Coach will work with you to help you get the confidence that you need to make changes, often one step at a time, but some of the work has to be done by you.
Career Coaches will also help you to plan your career. They will talk to you about your work history, your skills, what you want to achieve and help you come up with a plan of action as to how this can happen. (This is where you have to do some work, by putting the plan into action). They can also help you expand your boundaries, perhaps working for a recruitment agency in different settings, or encouraging you to study.
Often the nature of the coaching is designed to help you gain confidence, so this is not just about ‘job coaching’ it can also be a little about life coaching.
Whenever you choose a Coach, make sure it is someone that you feel you can talk to easily. You will need to be honest and open throughout the process and there needs to be some good honest dialogue between you.
The most important expectation that you should have from a Coach is that this will be along term plan, more than likely and that you have to keep your ambitions realistic, at least in the short term. It is fine to have day dreams, but Career Coaches work in reality.
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