Career coaching includes a wide array of services, from helping you figure out what you want to do in your career to exploring opportunities for professional growth and self-development to supporting you through the challenges while still navigating your time in college.
Here are 5 reasons you might consider hiring a career coach:
1. Struggling to find a clear purpose and direction?
You are spending endless time searching LinkedIn, and many jobs feel like a job you can do, but you aren’t sure what you actually want to do. Your family and friends have all sorts of ideas about what is best for you and how they have succeeded in their career, but it just doesn’t resonate with you.
If you are unsure which career, industry, or job title will create a sense of fulfilment, a career coach can help you narrow down your opportunities by exploring new perspectives and possibilities you haven’t considered so that you can find your path.
2. You aren’t sure how to make your resume stand out?
Resumes need to include the right capabilities and skills to match the job you are applying to. Perhaps, you are overwhelmed by all the possibilities or don’t even know how to start.
A career coach can help you position your skills in the context of a potential role and guide you about what is relevant experience and learning to include and where.
3. Feeling anxious about tests, presentations, and group work?
You are feeling the stress when taking tests, and during presentations and in group work you feel uncomfortable and nervous to perform because you don’t trust yourself enough to believe that what you do, is good enough. You are questioning your own capabilities and that discourages you.
However, it is normal to get anxious before or during a test since it can impact your test results. The same accounts for presentations and group work. Working with a career coach can increase your level of confidence and help you overcome your performance struggles and anxiety.
4. Procrastinating and poor time-management?
Your procrastination can take up a considerable amount of time during the day, either in the form of sleeping/ napping, watching TV, social media, or hanging out with friends. It often times causes you to experience time-management issues, such as missing important deadlines or rushing to complete assignments without enough time.
If this is the case, career coaching can help you decrease your procrastination habits by setting up accountability and support. Career coaching can also help increase your academic performance by creating a roadmap to accomplish your tasks and projects.
5. Struggling with emotional wellbeing, and motivation?
You are experiencing a variety of issues, such as increased stress and increased rates of illness. Many of these issues are associated with your time-management and academic performance. You might have experienced submitting an assignment late due to procrastination and end up receiving a bad grade, as a result you might feel anxiety, guilt and stress over that behavior.
Career coaching can help you overcome those challenges by addressing the deeper causes of your emotional wellbeing and help you create healthier boundaries so that you can gain back the motivation.
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