A career change is a process that never occurs all of a sudden. In most cases, it is something gradual, which comes to you when you begin to feel that the job you have been pursuing is just not right anymore or when you start to realise that the coming decade cannot be the same as the past one. This is where a career change coach in Hampshire and the South Coast can help you.
Why Career Change Needs More than Just Motivation?
Most individuals who are thinking of making a career change are not lacking in motivation. What they lack is clarity of direction about what they really want, what their current skills mean to them and new employers, and how best to proceed towards achieving their goals.
This is what makes career change take time; for some it’s weeks, others it’s months, and in some cases years for those just in the planning stages. It is through career change coaching that you derive benefit. It is not about giving you general information but rather about guiding you in making the right decision through an effective process that helps you understand exactly what you want from work and what you bring to the table.
What a Career Transition Coach Actually Helps With?
Here is an overview of what makes for a good career transition coach in Hampshire and the South of England.
1. Making sense of transferable skills: professionals are usually very good at knowing what they do daily, but many struggle to explain what these skills mean when applied elsewhere. This is where the guidance of a coach can help.
2. Making applications that go nowhere a thing of the past; sending CVs here and there with no response coming back might be an issue not with your abilities, but with the presentation of your experience. Coaching ensures you are using the right language. Boosting your genuine confidence, rather than giving you something artificially positive; having a plan and knowing one’s true worth does that.
3. Dealing with uncertainty; returning to work, redundancy, burnout, or lack of satisfaction with one’s job are issues that bring emotions, and a good coach will find the way to respect them and take you forward. This is exactly what Claudia Cubbage is best at.
Working with a career change expert
It makes sense to distinguish between a general life coach and a career change expert since these areas are connected with certain aspects such as finances, timing, knowledge of the sector, and knowing how to approach an entirely new industry, which most general coaches have no experience of.
An expert will have already encountered all these cases: the middle-aged person who knows what the future decade in their current role looks like but does not want it; the person who is ready to have a portfolio career but doesn’t know where to start; the person who is interested in changing his sector but does not know their skills translate. RenewEd’s Career Compass framework helps develop the coaching process specifically for these situations.
You can read more about this in Renewed Career: How Career Change Coaching Provides Clarity and Direction.
Why is choosing an experienced online coach so important?
Experience determines the potential benefits from coaching. An experienced online coach is not only about listening and asking probing questions; it is about many years of practical experience in recognising patterns that could prevent a person from making a successful career change, such as a lack of self-confidence, a vague understanding of his/her transferable skills, or simply an inability to position himself/herself correctly for the employer. The combination of teaching, coaching, and leadership experience for more than 30 years, being a headteacher and international athlete, gives Claudia Cubbage invaluable practical experience which cannot be found in any coaching programmes. It allows reaching the results much faster due to a practical approach to people’s growth and success under pressure.
What to expect from a discovery call?
A great coach does not expect you to make any commitment until you feel you are prepared to do so. A brief, no-commitment discovery session will enable you to know what coaching can offer and if the coach is a right match for you. The call will discuss your present situation, your reasons for seeking change, and the type of help that you actually need.
Ready to take the first step?
If you feel like you’re stuck, unfulfilled, or simply need something different, the right chat could make all the difference. Request your free discovery chat with RenewEd Ltd now and see how career change coaching, with experience in Hampshire and across the UK, will be able to help you get moving in the right direction: Contact Us Now!
