Why Career Coaching?

Research and reports claim that student undergoes a huge dilemma and challenging times choosing a career option after their school and university and anyway it’s not an easy affair for teenagers and young adults, especially in today’s ever-changing world. On the other hand, once students are done graduating school, it is necessary to choose a definite career and decide a career goal and making a right career choice is keeping the prevailing market trend in mind is a compulsion. In addition to this, selecting the right career option with what student like and is passionate about is important to excel in their career. Unfortunately, not many students are able to discover their true potentials and interests, and that is when wrong career decisions are taken.

This is where a certified professional career coach can support students in discovering their true potential and help students unleash their right career calling. With the growth in career options and opportunity in the market, the importance of career coaching has also increased manifold. Parents and students have also started to realize the fact that not all can become engineers or doctors and parents also can’t force children to choose what they desire. Teenagers and young adults are also more educated due to extensive media of communication and started exploring multiple fields depending on their talent, passion and interest and hence need someone to help them decide what they will really enjoy taking up their career not just what has been told or suggested by others.

Therefore, the investment made in working with a career coach at the beginning of a student’s career can save years of frustration resulting from an unaware career decision.

WHAT IS CAREER COACHING?

The formal definition of career coaching by the International Federation of Coaching (ICF) states that a career coach partners with you in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires you to maximize your personal and professional potential. Coaches honour you as the expert in your life and work and believe you are creative, resourceful and whole. Taking this as the foundation of career coaching, a career coach helps students to

• Discover, clarify, and align with what they want to achieve
• Elicit solutions and strategies
• Encourage self-discovery
• Hold you responsible and accountable

What are the benefits of a Professional Career Coaching to Students?

Coaching brings an innermost shift in student’s decision-making capabilities and empowers them to be more capable of understanding their responsibilities toward their own choices. Some of the benefits of coaching are –

Attitude – Changes attitude and increases motivation for succeeding in academics and performance in the goals related to academics and career success will increase

Motivation – Student will have greater sense of accepting their responsibilities for their goals necessary for their success.

Ownership – Students will start to take ownership of their decisions and will can take more informed and thought through decisions

Time Management –Student start to realize the importance of time and how to utilize it effectively to create their success plan.

Stress Management – coaching helps students manage stress effectively when approaching academic examination.

Concentration – Increased ability to concentrate and direct their focus to academics and career related goals, including time spent in studies will increase.