ambitious professionals it's Linda
Rayner of Linda Rayner calm guiding you
to a career and life you'll truly enjoy
and in today's video I'm going to teach
you 6 keys to consider if you're
thinking of hiring and working with an
executive career coach
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as a career strategist myself I've been
able to help numerous professionals to
land job offers in careers where they're
gonna have long-term growth and
development and this is something that
I'd be happy to help you with as well so
if you're interested in working with me
one on one I can give you more details
on that at the end of this video and so
because now you're at a point where
you're ready to seek out professional
advice you're thinking of hiring a
career coach and you feel that that
would be beneficial for you but you
realize as you go online that career
coaches come in all shapes and sizes
you're not really sure where to begin
not sure who to trust and who's credible
and that's where I'll come in today and
help you with going through that process
so I'm going to show you six keys that
you need to consider if you're planning
on hiring and working with a career
coach so the first key you want to
consider if you're thinking of hiring or
working with a career coach is to ask
yourself will he or she teach and guide
or will it be a done-for-you kind of
deal so when you're researching career
coaches you have to ask yourself do they
say that they'll write your resume for
you do they say that they'll give you
the exact answers to any interview
question for you without you having to
think it through do they say that
they'll find your job for you if the
answer is yes to any of those that's not
Career Coaching that's simply a
transaction you know in life there's a
lot of things that you can pay money for
to outsource and have them done for you
but landing a job offer is not one of
them if someone promises to write your
resume for you entirely on their own or
they're gonna give you a whole stack of
scripts of answers to interviews that
you just have to memorize and go into
the interview with or they say that
they're gonna just find your job for you
you don't have to take care of anything
they'll take care of it all it's like
you're saying to them okay I'm going to
leave my future career in your hands and
then you walk away hoping that all of a
sudden magically a job offer is gonna
appear unfortunately that's just not how
it works a good career coach is someone
who's going to support you guide you
teach you the approaches the strategies
the techniques on how to move into the
career that you deserve and that's right
for you but there
not gonna do it for you because the only
person that can do this is you for
example if they're writing your resume
for you one thing you have to remember
is that they didn't do your job so
because they didn't do your job they
still don't know the full depth of
responsibilities that you truly had in
that position they don't know the
accomplishments that you're able to
achieve they don't really have a full
understanding of your capabilities
instead they're gathering the several
pieces of information that you're giving
to them and they're making it sound
fancy but fancy words isn't necessarily
going to lead to a job offer it's really
understanding your value and being able
to communicate that in an effective way
and the only person that can do that is
you the second reason why using a career
coach to write your resume for you isn't
the best idea is because the career
coach themself may have been taught how
to write resumes but if they don't fully
and this actually goes back to two point
number one if they don't fully
understand the role they don't
understand the industry lingo they don't
really get it you're gonna find that
your resume has a lot of soft skills a
lot of soft words on there nothing
technical and like I said it's gonna
sound nice and fancy and wispy and cool
but when you actually read it there's
not that much substance the reason why
I'm saying this with so much certainty
is because I myself have seen examples
of resumes that weren't written by the
individual but written by someone else
who they outsource it to and
unfortunately in those cases we still
ended up having to revamp the entire
thing this is my honest belief when it
comes to career coaching true effective
career coaching is where the coach is
able to teach you the exact strategy on
how you can develop a kick-ass resume
for yourself that you'll remember for
the rest of your life
if you find that you're outsourcing your
resume writing to someone else and then
the next time you apply for a job you
still don't know how to write your
resume and you need to outsource it
again the truth is you didn't learn
anything you didn't improve in yourself
in that process so you haven't really
learned the idea of how to truly sell
yourself on paper and if you don't have
that skill set how can you guarantee
that you're going to be able to get
yourself the job at the end of
relying on you is the best way to go you
need to rely on yourself your own
abilities your own ability to learn your
willingness to learn and from there
you'll be able to personally improve and
professionally improve yourself as you
move on in your job search so having a
guide a coach that's there to work with
you to help you improve is one thing
that you're really gonna want to take
into account key number two ask yourself
do they have a background in your field
now it's not necessary that the career
coach has to have an exact educational
background or working background or
designation in the field that you're in
but they should have some sort of
background with working with the types
of professionals that are similar to you
and I'll use myself as an example so I
am a CPA by training I also in a past
life was an accountant so I come from an
accounting finance background and I was
also a recruiter for several years where
I helped to hire hundreds of finance and
accounting professionals into corporate
positions and now as a career strategist
or career coach I've been able to
leverage my experience working with
finance professionals and expanded into
other types of corporate professionals
whether they are in sales IT marketing
operations I've been able to work with
them because I've been able to leverage
the knowledge and extensive experience
with the other types of corporate
professionals into these areas and I've
also worked with individuals in
engineering in the legal fields in
healthcare fields as well but as you can
see I started off somewhere and then I
was able to expand and I've been able to
work with people in all different fields
in all different industries
now if the career coach that you're
considering working with is someone who
doesn't have a professional background
or at the very least doesn't even have a
recruitment background then chances are
their knowledge is going to be fairly
limited and because their knowledge is
limited they may not be able to teach
you all the techniques and strategies on
how you can effectively sell yourself to
the right employers for the jobs that
you want and that's because they haven't
seen hundreds or thousands of different
profiles to be able to fully understand
the nuances
between each of them and chances are
that means that you'll probably end up
with a fair bit of generic advice so
considering the person's background is
going to be important and that is key
number two now let's move on to key
number three key number three is similar
to key number two in the sense that it
asks are they specific or generic so
when you're considering working with a
career coach make sure you ask them how
specific and customized are you in your
approach when working with your clients
and actually tell them to explain with
an example if the career coach is able
to answer your question with a clear
example with a solid understanding of
your job and the market and how you can
effectively sell yourself then you can
have confidence that they're likely a
good career coaching someone who can
help you but if it sounds like they're
struggling with the answer that is a red
flag that you would want to take note of
key number four when considering working
with a career coach is do you have a
good sense of their abilities nowadays
the only way you're going to find a
career coach is by doing a search online
and one thing you really want to
consider is if the career coach has a
solid online presence because you want
to be able to understand their teaching
style and their capabilities before you
work with them so do they post
consistently content that is helpful for
you whether it be on LinkedIn on YouTube
on their email newsletter on a blog
somewhere on their website if they are
posting consistent content next question
to ask is has it helped you in your job
search in some way shape or form are you
learning something new each time they're
posting because the truth is if they're
already offering you value for free and
you're finding it helpful then you know
that you're only going to get more value
if you pay to work with them now if the
career coach doesn't really share any
content doesn't teach anything for free
then you probably don't have a very
strong sense of how they'll teach and
what they'll teach and that is a red
flag so really focus on the ones that
are offering you value already and only
if it's helpful for you and if it's
effective then you can choose to move
forward key number five is asking are
they luring you with connections in the
field just because a career coach claims
that they
have connections to individuals related
to your field doesn't necessarily mean
that that's going to equate to a job
offer for you think about it this way
they're saying that they have X number
of connections with individuals in the
fields that you want to get into but if
they're telling you this are they not
telling every single one of their other
clients this as well and on top of that
what are the chances that those
individuals that they're connected with
actually have jobs and have jobs
available for you to apply to would it
not be better for you to rely on your
own abilities and be able to learn how
to master making connections with the
right people so that you can expand your
network and eventually land a job offer
without having to lean on someone else
and their handful of connections the
truth is nothing is guaranteed when it
comes to the job search game but what is
guaranteed is that the smaller game you
play the lower quality jobs you'll
likely end up with you want to be taught
how to play a bigger game so that you
can master your job search in a way that
you'll land the career that you
ultimately deserve and that you will
actually make you feel fulfilled and
excited to get up for everyday and a
good career coach will teach you the key
to do that
and finally key number six is to ask if
the career coach has a focused strategic
plan versus an open-ended and unclear
plan when working with a good career
coach they'll tend to have a
well-thought-out laid out plan or
program of action where you can maximize
your job search efforts and actually
land the dream job offer that you want
that means you're gonna know exactly
what your goals are what you have to
achieve what steps you need to take and
exactly how you're gonna get there if a
career coach doesn't have a plan and
they say that they'll just keep things
open-ended and just keep working with
you as you need help chances are you're
probably gonna end up working with them
for a fairly long time because there's
no clear point plan of action and you
don't really know where you're going and
so without that you may not even land
the goal that you want which is to get
that job offer so make sure you ask them
what is their strategic plan of action
is it well thought-out and laid out
based on what they described or does it
sound like it's gonna be a wishy-washy
unclear arrangement so they
you have it those are the six keys that
you should consider if you're thinking
of hiring and working with a career
coach now I myself have a program called
stand up get hired where I work with my
clients 101 and through this program I'm
able to take you through the exact steps
from the initial resume down to getting
hopefully the job offer and if this is
something that you're interested in
pursuing working with me 101 then feel
free to click on the link below in the
description box it will take you to my
standard get hired page and that's Linda
Raynor comm slash stand up get hired
read the page fill in the application
form from there I will assess if you are
a potential fit for my program if I
think that you are then you will get an
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