Facilitating Career Coaching Skills
As a career coach, you are likely to work with a variety of clients from a broad range of ages, backgrounds with a range of career issues, such as school students needing help with subject and tertiary institute selection, graduates who are seeking their first full time job and job seeking skills support, those returning to the workforce who are unsure of their next step, individuals seeking promotion with strategizing career progression, and older adults wanting to downsize their work commitments.
The client has come to you as they are dissatisfied and seek a change in their career and life. Your role is to facilitate the career development process to assist clients in attaining their career goals.
You work with clients will be client-centred, exhibiting attitudes of genuineness, empathy, and unconditional positive regard. Demonstrating these attributes will have a positive effect on the quality of the client/practitioner relationship and the service that you provide.
The course will provide you with the strategies to enable you to provide high quality and client centred career coaching services.
AUDIENCE
For individuals seeking international course accreditation in career development practice to work in a global environment with organizations and clients, develop and update their knowledge and skills in career development, or fill a skills gap in their practice.
The course is suitable in various contexts and roles, including schools, education, training, in the workplace in human resources or psychology, and/or experience working in employment, recruitment, outplacement, youth work, apprenticeship, disability and rehabilitation, case management, or management.
COURSE AIMS
- Facilitate career counselling-coaching with a client-centered approach to focus on the client’s needs
- Identify the range of clients that Career Development Practitioners assist and understand their specific needs and goals
- Apply the 4-step career development process of Self-Discovery, World of Work, Career Planning and Decision Making and Job Seeking
- Understand and appreciate a client’s change process to implement change
- Apply counselling-coaching skills to your practice Define Scope of Practice and work within client boundaries