Career coaching: helping people who are stuck or have a problem with their career

Especially if you are in the recession doldrums

The Doldrums is an area of the sea where there is almost no wind and in the past sailors could get stuck there for ages. Is that happening with your job or career at the moment?

Do you have one or more of these going on?

• Your job is on the line
• You don’t like your current job
• You see no future in what you are doing
• You are unemployed and struggling to find another job
• You are now having one change too many
• Morale at work is terrible and you want to get out
• You don’t feel valued for what you do or what you are about
• You’ve been seeking the ideal job and not found it yet
• It is time for a complete re-think about the future
• You want to change your work and lifestyle
• It is time for you now

It might be a mixture of reasons but in general you need some help to get your work and career moving. What you have now isn’t working out, or it is simply that you aren’t working. In the current climate, you might even be out of work and there are seemingly no jobs out there.

What is to be done?

You might have tried all the usual methods to get a job you want but either you are finding you have hit a dead end or just do not know the best way forward. You might have run out of options. You might even not really know what you want. This can be all very frustrating and often depressing.

Very often there is a way forward, only you can’t see it or don't believe it. It might be you actually lack awareness of what you could be doing. You may be unaware of a skill, aptitude or experience that you are not fully utilising. You may have untapped talent. Or you are not using the best routes to open up a better direction. Your marketing might need sharpening. You might need new ideas.

And you need an expert who can point it out or help you see it.

Maybe there is a new you just waiting to be discovered and brought out into the open!

I think we are all unique in our own ways and that there’s something special in all of us that needs drawing out and realising, to be brought into physical reality

Where I come in

I am a very experienced career coach who first started doing this work in the last recession. Where I come in as a career coach is in helping people build their self-awareness of their attributes and preferences, identify desirable alternative career routes and explore options. I also help you develop research skills, create a better profile, become more effective at presenting yourself and a myriad of other techniques to enhance possibilities and create new ways forward.

I have provided career coaching for people in a whole variety of career development and career change situations for over 18 years. I have worked with the long-term unemployed, supported people in the midst of organisational change, led in-house career development programmes, helped directors get another job, run change management workshops for unhappy staff in a business shut-down, and supported individuals needing help to change direction or simply get a new role.

In all this, my aim is to find what lights each person up, what new vision they could create for themselves and to plan and carry out innovative ways of getting there.

What you can do

So, contact me for an introductory discussion by phone

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