A career coach is critical to shaping one’s career path. A coach will typically help to identify your goals and then define a strategy to achieve them. It’s not however necessary to hire the first coach you run into! You can use your peers at work, your network outside of the office, and even yourself! It’s the execution that matters most.

What You Need From a Coach

• Identifying your strengths and weaknesses: know your talents and try to capitalize on them
• Discovering Yourself: create a story that is unique to you
• Diligence: creating a strong personal work ethic to achieve your goals
• Preparation: learning, analyzing, and reviewing to train for your next interview and position
• Decision making improvement
• Momentum and focus
• Path clarity
• And a little networking help!

There are many kinds of career coaches that specialize in supporting everyone from college grads to executives. And the list of coaching applications is growing as more niche support is found useful. A sample list follows:

• Life coaching
• Business Coaching
• Executive Coaching
• Global Executive Coaching
• Career Coaching
• Financial Coaching
• Personal Coaching
• Sports Coaching

Here are a few links to get you started!

• 4 Tips for Being Your Own Career Coach
• Is a Career Coach Really Worth the Investment?
• How to Find the Right Career Coach

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