A career coach provides a specific process for you to explore your interests, skills, possibilities, and opportunities.\u00a0A career coach then works with you to identify challenges and to create your strategies.<\/p>\n
How is that different?<\/p>\n
A career counselor works with pre-determined tools and processes to figure out what you should do and how you should do it. They give you advice.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
A career advisor or consultant analyses your skills and the job market, then gives you a plan to use.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
A trainer teaches specific skills for work you will do in the future.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
A career coach<\/span><\/a> recognizes you know yourself best and you are your own best expert. If appropriate for you, a career coach may incorporate the use of one or more assessments; which assessment(s) are determined by what serves you best.\u00a0 A career coach may explore what training or consulting will serve you and may schedule that separately themselves or with other professionals.\u00a0 Most significantly, a career coach empowers you to discover your own answers and choose your own course of action.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n A real career coach has completed coach training.\u00a0Before engaging a career coach, ask them if they are a member of the International Coach Federation<\/span><\/a> because that will tell you they have completed coaching certification<\/span><\/a> and are qualified to coach.<\/p>\n * Originally posted on #CenterforCoachingCertification<\/strong><\/a> by #CathyLiska<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A career coach recognizes you know yourself best and you are your own best expert and empowers you to discover your own answers and choose your own course of action. <\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52,"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],"tags":[50,47,46,49,48,51,63],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benefits-of-coaching","tag-coach-123","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-services","tag-coaching-success","tag-coaching-tips","tag-executive-coaching","tag-professional-coaching"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t