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Do you have skills and abilities you are not using in your current job/career?
Do you feel underemployed?
Would you like to express more creativity in your work?
Can you see yourself doing the same thing five or ten years from now?
Do you feel burned out?
Are you unfocused?
Do you have conflicts with your co-workers or supervisors?
Have you received poor performance reviews or been terminated from your job?
Do you know what you want to do, but you don't know how to get there?
Are you growing professionally and personally?
Do you sometimes wonder if there is a better or a different way that you can live your life?

If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you can benefit from my Career Counseling and Coaching program.

Benefits of Career Counseling and Career Coaching:

• Gain focus and direction
  
• Reduce your stress level
  
• Identify and clarify interests, skills, values and personality style
  
• Determine what career/job you really want, and the kind of lifestyle you desire
  
• Learn the skills needed to make career transitions
  
• Achieve balance; make work fit into your life instead of making life fit around your work
  
• Develop a healthy lifestyle
  
• Overcome the "blocks" that keep you from achieving your potential
  
• Achieve peak performance professionally and personally
• Get the courage to start that new business
  
• Develop and implement a strategic plan for your career
  
• Make it happen!
  

Career Testing and Assessment

"To know what your prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."

Robert Louis Stevenson

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We interview each client extensively to get background information, including all of your education and work history. Then you take three Career Tests and complete various exercises and readings to help you:

• Define your interests and aptitudes
  
• Identify your personality styles - your stengths, preferences and limitations
  
• Clarify your personal values
  
• Identify areas for job performance improvement
  
• Distinctly clarify the vision you have for your career and your life, including your preferred life-style
  
• Uncover transferable skills

Focusing on Options

"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

J. K. Rowling in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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• Evaluate Mid-life crisis
  
• Set priorities and achieve focus
  
• Identify Career burnout and stress
  
• Determine a rewarding career(s)
  
• Gather information about various jobs/careers
  
• Conduct Informational interviewing
  
• Develop skills to make a successful career transition

Creating an Action Plan

"Ideas don't make money. Action does."

Carol L. Dannhauser

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• Achieve balance
  
• Develop a personal life-plan
  
• Set career goals and objectives
  
• Conquer resistance and procrastination
  
• Create a strategic career plan
  
• Improve your job search skills
  
• Prepare your resume, cold call, create cover letters
  
• Network
  
• Interviewing



Why Career Counseling?

Traditional thinking dictates that if people work hard they will be rewarded with challenging work, fancier job titles, and higher salaries. But the nature of business, work, and jobs has changed as organizations in many industries struggle to remain competitive. In these times of continuous change and economic challenges, new technology, foreign competition, and "rightsizings" are eliminating many jobs permanently. There are less middle management positions and fewer career paths within many companies. No longer can you expect the company you work for to take care of you. You must be proactive if you are to be successful.

Resistance and procrastination can also block us from finding satisfying work. Resistance is the force that keeps us from taking positive action, choosing comfort and safety over challenge and growth. Career coaching can help you focus on results to minimize resistance and procrastination.