Case Study: Career Coaching Helps People Gain Clarity on their Career Path
Donna Schilder, MCC
? Owner of a Boutique Coaching Firm That Provides Executive Coaching / Leadership Coaching / Career Coaching. We help leaders and professionals find fulfillment and step up to the next level. ?
Are you having trouble finding a career that you’re passionate about and that also fits your lifestyle?
If you answered yes, I know exactly how you feel!
I tried over 20 different careers before I found the perfect fit for me:? Leadership & Career Coaching.? Prior to finding my dream job, I tried being all of the following: singer, television researcher, English Teacher, Aircraft Validation Analyst, and Medical Insurance Trainer.
I developed our Career Exploration process because I wanted to help others avoid the trial and error that I went through.
Our Career Exploration Process marries multiple things you need to take into account when choosing a fulfilling career that aligns with your values, personality, and desired lifestyle.?
Aligning Your Career and Values
Values are the most important thing to take into consideration when you’re seeking a meaningful career. Martin Seligman, a scientist and founding father of the Positive Psychology movement, discovered that when we use our values in our work, we feel a sense of gratification.? Gratification equates to meaning, purpose, being in a state of flow.
All of our Donna Schilder Career Coaching clients take Seligman’s Values in Action Inventory , which helps you identify your top 5 values. We use those values to uncover career possibilities and then to evaluate those possible careers. This allows you to compare possible careers against each other to choose a career that will create meaning, purpose, and a life you’ll love.
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My VIA showed that my top five values are Curiosity, Love of Learning, Caution, Creativity, and Social Intelligence. When I look back, some of these careers had none of my Values in Action and some even violated my values. In my current career I leverage all of my values!
Career Coaching Helps People Gain Clarity on Their Career Path
Our career matrix allows you to see which careers would align best with your values.
Let’s look at an example:
Joan, a bubbly, hardworking Fullerton grad, who was a technical editor, was feeling lonely and unfulfilled. When her coach had her take the Values in Action Inventory, 3 of her top values were:
When Joan looked at her current job, Technical Editor, she realized that it did not align at all with those values. There was no creativity, very little learning, and she wasn’t using social intelligence because she mostly worked quietly with documents, rarely interacting with other people.