The Career Coaching Toolkit

The Career Coaching Toolkitis a practical guide to 34 effective and relevant career coaching techniques to help practitioners encourage, stretch and clarify their clients? thinking. Structured around ten of the most common career dilemmas clients bring to their coaches, this book provides clear advice to coaches about when to apply the right technique to address all of these problems.

With a dual focus on theory and practice, each chapter explores the links between the coaching technique and the scientific research on which it is based. The book explains how and why the technique works, giving the reader a real appreciation of the underlying mechanisms that make these techniques effective. Written specifically for career coaching,this deepened understanding will enhance confidence when working with clients.

A practical toolkit for practitioners and students alike, The Career Coaching Toolkit will add depth to the practice of anyone working with clients facing a career crossroads, or conducting research into occupational identities and career decision making.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Where Do Clients Get Stuck?

Chapter 3 How Can I Make Sense of My Career So Far?

Chapter 4 What Do I Want from a Job?

Chapter 5 What Jobs Would Suit Me?

Chapter 6 What Job Do I Want to Do?

Chapter 7 I Want to Go For it, But I am Just Not Sure I am Good Enough

Chapter 8 Part of Me Wants It, But Part of Me Wants Something Else

Chapter 9 It is what I want, but my family aren’t so sure

Chapter 10 What’s the point in trying? I am never going to make anything of myself.

Chapter 11 I just can’t decide between these options

Chapter 12 I am not feeling very motivated

Chapter 13 Multi-purpose tools

Chapter 14 Conclusion

Julia Yates has worked in the field of career coaching for over 20 years, as a career coach, trainer and writer. She is currently a Senior Lecturer at City, University of London, where she runs the MSc in Organisational Psychology and conducts research into the impact of non-conscious processes on career decisions.