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Career Coaching provides individual and group coaching to those seeking to clarify their career goals, plan career transitions, or address issues interfering with career satisfaction and growth.
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Career Coaching Services
For those preferring the privacy of one-on-one work with an experienced JVS career coach, or who have unique issues and questions that would best be handled individually, JVS offers individual assistance with:
Career Assessment & Planning:
- Clarify the elements of career satisfaction for you: your values, skills, interests and work environment preferences.
- Research and evaluate the career options that fit your career satisfiers.
- Identify barriers to career change and develop strategies to overcome them.
Work Issues:
- Develop your communication, negotiation, and time management skills.
- Evaluate work transition opportunities and setbacks.
- Adjust to your new job.
The fees for individual coaching are $85 per session. Expect approximately 3 – 5 sessions; however, the length and duration of career coaching and advising varies depending on the complexity and urgency of participant needs.
Topics can include:
Self-Assessment:
- Clarify your values, talents, interests, & skills
- Identify & articulate what motivates & energizes you about work
- Practice describing to others what you want from your career
- Lay a meaningful foundation for goal-setting & planning
Goal-Setting:
- Explore your options in the world of work
- Look for alignment between your self-assessment & those options
- Set and prioritize specific, attainable goals
- Start taking next steps in your career transition
Executive Job Search:
- Develop your strategy for a high-level job search
- Craft effective self-marketing materials and messages
- Practice interviewing skills that highlight the value you add to prospective employers
- Learn how to negotiate job offers and get off to a fast start in your new job
2 Young 2 Retire: Re-Careering After 50:
- Think beyond retirement using ideas from the popular book 2 Young 2 Retire
- Explore the ongoing meaning and role of work in your life
- Clarify your particular work/life “balance”
- Develop specific plans to continue work on your term
Am I Ready for Coaching?
To determine whether you are ready for coaching with JVS, please answer for yourself the following questions:
- Are you clear about what you want and need to learn in the coaching process?
- Are you willing to be an active participant in the coaching process?
- Are you motivated to learn new things about yourself and the world of work?
- Are you ready to show up for all of the sessions of your program?
- Are you ready to do the additional hours of in-between session work that will be required?
- Are you prepared to consider new ideas, try new things, be courageous, and initiate next steps in your career development?
- Are you prepared to take action on what you learn in the coaching process?
For more information about coaching services, please contact us at 415.391.3600 and ask to be directed to a counselor with questions about the career coaching program. You can also email
Debbie Mendel with any specific questions.
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