Because your calling is never intended to be a final destination, it can be better described as your path toward fulfilling your potential and making the world a better place.

Martha Finney & Deborah Dasch
Find Your Calling, Love Your Life

You can benefit from working with a career counselor to clear the fog and focus on career goals to increase your satisfaction and bring purpose to your work life. Work can be a source of great fulfillment, individual expression, and meaning. If you are unhappy at work, it can affect how you feel about yourself, your physical health, and your ability to grow and contribute.

Depending on your needs, you may work through the entire Career Self-Reliance Process including:

• Assessment
• Career Direction
• Career Plan
• Skill Development
• Job Search Strategy
• Resume Writing
• Interviewing
• Salary Negotiation

Or we can focus more narrowly on one or a combination of steps, depending on what makes sense to meet your career needs.

I Can Help You:

• Make a life assessment based on your past: occupational, familial, financial, educational, recreational, emotional, spiritual.
• Evaluate your current and past job performance.
• Understand your motivated work skills, the things you most like to do.
• Identify your effective behaviors, particularly as related to employment.
• Learn life and career goal setting and decision-making.
• Define your life and career vision and objectives
• Create, develop and start your own business
• Pull all this new knowledge about yourself into an integrated action plan.
• Prepare and refine an attention-getting competitive resume.
• Learn skills for self-marketing for your job search or business including defining targets, branding, who and how to contact people for advice and information, writing letters and e-mails, use of online networking tools, interview skills and practice and salary negotiation.
• Maintain your focus and enthusiasm during your job search or business start-up with periodic consultations.

This career management process will get you where you want to go.  We will:

• Clarify your marketable skills and unique assets
• Brainstorm and determine your best-fit career options. Analyze and pinpoint the gap between what you want to do and what the market will pay you for!
• Design a game plan with built in accountability

These steps appear simple; however, procrastination and fear often make them difficult. I offer essential follow through counseling and coaching to help you navigate the rough spots of your career moves.

You will develop skills in:

• Setting Realistic Achievable Goals
• Networking Strategically
• Using Informational Interviews Effectively
• Salary negotiation and interviewing
• Developing A Practical Self-Marketing Plan

In individual sessions in-person (in Monterey or the San Jose, CA area), by telephone or e-mail I offer:

• Professional career planning & entrepreneurial guidance
• Tips & techniques for dealing with workplace issues
• Follow through coaching
• On Track Accountability
• Feedback and Support

I work with you in the first session to customize these services to fit your individual needs and will help develop and implement your own self-empowering plan for your career and your life!  Your plan will provide renewed energy, self-confidence and a sense of purpose for making needed changes.

Hourly and package plans are available.  Contact Estelle for more information or to get started right away.  estelle@careeractioncenter.com or 831-372-1731