How to Become
a Career Counseling Coach


An excellent Career Counseling Coach can help you tap out your unique skills, talents and aptitude to help you develop in the career of your choice. He helps you to modify or transition your existing skills to suit the workings of a new industry. He is like a mentor who identifies the hurdles to your progress and gives you practical steps to overcome your obstacles and make a positive impression in your career and develop your personality.

A Career Counseling Coach could be simply defined as your job seeking partner. A Career Counseling Coach could be a career management coach, who helps you in managing your career or a career marketing coach, who helps you build contacts, posts your resumes, tries to find the best jobs for you and helps you secure the best jobs. He basically tries to market you effectively in the job market.

Another way to market your job as an Executive Career Coach is with Online Career Counseling. This way you wouldn't even have to leave your office at home. No commuting, no time clock, come and go when you want.

Investment:
Start-up costs would be around $3000 with website hosting, a computer and other promotional materials included.

Financing sources:

  • Banks are forefront in providing start up loans
  • Business loans from the government
  • Business organizations which will consider your initiative and possibly give you start up loans.
  • Loans from government sponsored self employment programs are helpful to start up as well as develop your skills as a Career Counseling Coach.
  • Loans from venture capitalists and angel investors are also effective. Both will help you financially but expect a higher rate of return. The angel investor is personally interested in the growth of your business.

    Pricing guidelines for for a Career Counseling Coach:
    In today’s competitive job market, you have to price your service effectively be it career marketing or career management. Career Counseling Coach bill by the hour. Charges range from $50 to $200 an hour with an average of $100-150.

    Advertising and Marketing Methods and Tips:

  • You can advertise in regional or national newspapers and even post ads in colleges and universities.
  • You could promote your 'career coaching' in social clubs, parties, get-togethers.
  • You could print and distribute your business cards.
  • You could write and distribute press releases locally or online which could include stories with ideas and advice which have worked for students and people in general with their career problems.

    Equipment needed as an Executive Career Coach:
    Typical home personal computer with database software, word processing software and access to research sites through internet.

    Income potential:
    Billing at the average of $100 per hour, working part-time you would earn from $8,000 and up. Full-time would be from $16,000 and up if you charged the industry average of $100 per hour.

    Target market for a Career Counseling Coach:
    There is a big market where there are a lot of people who are at a crossroads in their career. There are lot of teenagers and young people who make wrong career decisions without introspecting themselves and making a decision based on peer pressure and the 'trends' in the job market. A person who changes his or her career goals for whatever reason and is now uncertain about the ways to achieve success in that field, would need the services of an Executive Career Coach. There are a lot of people who need support and motivation at every stage of their career be it an interview or during a promotion. Job search is a billion dollar industry.

    Success tips:
    There are a lot of Executive Career Coaches and Career Counseling Coachs of all types out there. To be different, upgrade your skills and focus on the entire personality development of the student or the person seeking career coaching. Groom him or her in etiquette, presentation and communication skills as well. Even if you charge a little bit extra, the person seeking your help will hugely benefit from your invaluable guidance.

    Training, skills or experience:
    The website www.careercoachinstitute.com has the best online career counseling training programs in career coaching. The skills needed are an earnest desire to help people earn their goals because when they succeed, you gain in more ways than one. You can also learn from Certified Career coaches who provide online tutorials or conduct classes and hold seminars.

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