What is Career Coaching? Who needs it and Why?

Imagine having a guide on your career journey, someone who helps you figure out your goals, overcome obstacles, and make your work life more fulfilling. That's what career coaching is all about, in simple terms.

In this article we are going to see some common questions on Career Coaching.

Who is a Career Coach?

Career Coach is a person who helps you to achieve your career goals.

If you do not know your career goals, a coach can help you find what you would like to achieve.

If you know the goals but don’t know how to achieve that, coach can help you find your path to your destination.

If you are facing challenges with confidence or communication or consistency, coach can help you overcome that.

In summary, a career coach can help you to face and overcome any challenges you are facing in your career journey. 'Any challenges'...!

How does Career Coaching works?

Career Coaches have their own strategies to get you results. They have their proven frameworks that yield outcome.

As a Career Coach, I focus on data driven coaching, where the client has data to understand their current situation, clarity on what they want to achieve and a clear roadmap to traverse. This is achieved through assessments, processes and coaching. With a clear career roadmap, right mindset and guidance to tackle challenges, you will be able to achieve your career success without wasting time, energy and efforts in wrong direction and space.

Career Coaching is like having a supportive friend who is also an expert in helping you make the most of your career. It's about discovering your potential, overcoming challenges, and finding joy and satisfaction in the work you do.

Who needs Career Coaching?

"Are you happy in your career?"

If your answer is ‘yes’, you do not need a career coach.

Because, happiness in career is the summary of what one aspires from career – Time and Financial Freedom, Position, Power, Satisfaction, Value, Stress free, Successful and Fulfilling job. You already have it, so Enjoy your Life!??

If your answer is ‘No’, then its better to have a Career Coach. They can help you navigate your known and unknown struggles and challenges. They can help to bring clarity in your path.

When light is there, the path is easy to walk!

Why one needs a Career Coach?

In a career growth journey, the three main roadblocks that can come are

1. Lack of motivation

2. Time management

3. Lack of clarity

If you are good enough to handle all three by yourself, I am sure you will be falling in the category that said a ‘yes’ for my previous question of ‘Are you happy in your career?’.

For most of us, including myself, there are challenges with any of the three factors, at different times in the career journey.

There were times when I lack all the motivation, I had no clarity on what I am doing or what I should do, I struggled with time management. I tried myself to solve, lost few hours (may be 2-3)... and then, I reach out to my coach and we figure things out.

What is the benefit of that? I did not loose days or months in that frustration state. I could come out quickly and bounce back with more energy, in very short span of time.

This is exactly the reason why one needs a career coach for. You handling it alone during a struggling moment, will cause you lot of time, efforts and energy wasted in trial and error finding solutions, loosing motivation on the way, getting frustrated and burned out, and high chance to give up everything as a follow up act.

??To get yourself back on the track, not to be in the loop of procrastination and stress, work with a career coach.

If someone is there to help you live a happy life, why to say 'no' and continue in the well of struggles?

As the world around us changes, pick the ones beneficial for us, make good use of it, Live the moment lively!