Career Coaching Vs Career Design Counselling

Many terminologies are used around career coaching, like Career Transition Coach, Career Transformation Coach, Career Development Coach etc. What is the difference between career coaching and career counseling?

While coaching and counseling have unique approaches to helping clients, they are suited to entirely different scenarios.

A career coach is similar to an athletic coach who focuses on the current situation and helps the client move forward, emphasizing targeted outcomes/results/accomplishments.

A career counselor will also assess your current situation along with analyzing your past experiences, which aids in detangling your confusion or overcoming your dilemmas, thus helping you develop a reframed perspective towards your dilemma and opening up solution possibilities.

When should one approach a coach or a counselor? Coaching will be helpful if you are looking for career progression to a specific role, which can be a senior leadership role. If you are encountering issues like role stagnation, unclear of your career roadmap, looming with thoughts of transitioning into a different career space, or upskilling yourself but unsure of how to go about it, then it is a counselor whom one needs to approach.

 A career design counselor using a holistic approach will help you understand your options and figure out a feasible, practical, and implementable solution to your career dilemmas.

Career Design Counselling guided by the framework of Life Design Counseling, the latest career counseling intervention assists in developing self-knowledge and facilitating decision-making. This process not only focuses on the importance of deciding which career to choose; it also supports clients in devising adaptable career lives that can be reshaped as and when life experiences follow and changes occur.

The counselors will conduct an interview using specific career-style questions that elicit life goals related to the career, thus guiding the client in self-exploration and developing career clarity.

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