{"id":49,"date":"2023-03-24T08:44:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T08:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.coach-123.co\/2023\/03\/24\/im-going-to-college-do-i-need-a-career-coach\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T18:47:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T18:47:33","slug":"im-going-to-college-do-i-need-a-career-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coach-123.com\/coachingblog\/im-going-to-college-do-i-need-a-career-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m going to college. Do I need a Career Coach?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Fortune magazine said: Do you have a career coach?\u00a0If not, you could be limiting your success.\u00a0 A ten-year study of coaching at Amoco, now part of British Petroleum, resulted in the finding that those who received coaching earned on average 50% higher salary increase.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monster.com\/career-advice\/article\/4-signs-hire-career-coach-0129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Monster.com<\/span><\/a> listed 4 reasons to get a career coach.\u00a0 They are:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>\r\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">You feel unfulfilled<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>\r\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">You don\u2019t know who to trust<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>\r\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">You\u2019ve been job shopping without direction<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<li>\r\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\">You\u2019re not advancing<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>As you can see, there are a multitude of reasons someone may utilize the services of a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">career coach<\/span>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>So, do you need a career coach?\u00a0 Certainly you want one!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The real question is, What is a career coach? There is a big difference between career counselors or consultants and career coaches.\u00a0 A career coach has professional training in the Core Competencies of a coach from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coachfederation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">International Coach Federation<\/a>, ICF, as well as the\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/credentialing\/coaching-ethics\/icf-code-of-ethics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ICF Code of Ethics<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0 Whereas a career counselor or consultant will tell you what to do and how to do it, a career coach will put you in charge of choosing what you want and how to achieve it with the coaching process.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Sometimes working with someone who offers career counseling, consulting, training, and coaching is smart.\u00a0 Ask about the different roles and choose a coach who clearly differentiates what they offer in terms of coach training, coaching experience, and the coaching process.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>* Originally posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/centerforcoachingcertification\"><strong>#CenterforCoachingCertification<\/strong><\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/cathyliska\"><strong>#CathyLiska<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">A career counselor or consultant will tell you what to do and how to do it, a career coach will put you in charge of choosing what you want and how to achieve it with the coaching process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,60],"tags":[50,47,46,49,48,51],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benefits-of-coaching","category-coaching","tag-coach-123","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-services","tag-coaching-success","tag-coaching-tips","tag-executive-coaching"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":1000,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coach-123.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coach-123.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coach-123.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coach-123.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coach-123.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.coach-123.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7803,"href":"https:\/\/www.coach-123.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/7803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coach-123.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coach-123.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coach-123.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coach-123.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}