Career Counseling
"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
- Negotiation
- Job Search Strategy
- Resume Writing
- Interviewing
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 job performance.
- Understand your motivated work skills, the things you most like to do.
- Identify your effective behavior, particularly as related to employment.
- Learn life and career goal setting and decision-making.
- In administering and interpreting the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, Strong Occupational Interest Inventory, the Campbell Interest and Skill Survey, and other strength and skill evaluations.
- Define a career objective or 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 strategies for your job search, including: who and how to contact people for advice; use of the telephone; writing letters; interview practice; 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.
A variety of career assessment tools can be used, including:
- Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator
- Strong Occupational Interest Inventory/Career Report
- Skillscan for repackaging transferable skills
- Values Search
You will develop skills in:
- Setting Realistic Achievable Goals
- Defining your Career Option (employment or entrepreneurship)
- Identifying Challenges
- Networking Strategically
- Using Informational Interviews Effectively
- Interviewing and Salary Negotiation
- Developing A Practical Action and Self-Marketing Plan
In individual sessions in person, 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.
Individual Session & Package Plan Pricing
Individual Sessions (60 minutes) - $70 per session
(cost of assessments is additional)
Package Plans:
Package Plans include the administration and interpretation of appropriate assessments.
5 Sessions - $325
10 Sessions - $600