What They Dont Teach You In School Presentation

What They Don’t Teach You In
School – A Holistic Approach to
Career Coaching
Presented by: Kendra Wilburn
Cincinnati State Midwest Culinary Institute

Agenda
• What career coaching isn’t.
• What career coaching is.
• Value of career coaching
• 5 Step Career Direction Journey Model
• Steps to Implementation

“ The difference between a successful person and
others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of
knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”

- Vince Lombardi

What Career Coaching Isn’t …….
• A career coach is NOT a:
▫ Boss
▫ Guru
▫ Fortune teller
▫ Therapist/psychologist

A Career Coach is……….
• An assessor of:
▫ Attributes
▫ Skills
▫ Current work situation
▫ And provides feedback

• An Information Provider
▫ Supplies ideas and information on options
▫ Resources
▫ Potential barriers

• A Guide
▫ Suggests courses of action
▫ Provides feedback during the process of what is
working and what isn’t.

• A Tutor
▫ Teaches techniques and information for
 Career changes
 Job searches
 Career planning

Value of Career Coaching
• Increased control over career direction
• Increased control over career pace
• Minimizes change – related stress
• More effective and satisfying career decisions

5 Phases of Career Direction Journey

Assessing
Self
Phase Phase
1 2

Exploring
Performing
Options

Phase Phase
5 3

Marketing Developing
Self Skills
Phase
4

Phase I - Assessing Self & Preferences
• Understanding self, skills, interests & values
▫ Particular talent that when expressed makes the
world a better place
▫ Something you might gravitate toward during
after-hours activities
▫ People respect you for………

• Who am I?
▫ Two approaches to addressing this question
 Asking student/employee/client to explore their
individual talents
 Using assessment to explore individual preferences

• Approach one – consider the following questions:
▫ When have you been most committed, passionate
and enthusiastic?
▫ When have you been most creative?
▫ When have you been most sure of yourself and your
decisions?
▫ What do you consider to be your greatest
accomplishment?
▫ When have others considered you to be most
successful?
▫ When have you enjoyed your work the most?

• Approach one – consider the following questions:
▫ What about the world puzzles you or disturbs you
that you could make an impact on?
▫ What jobs do you like to do at work when you have
a choice?
▫ What activities are you drawn towards out of work?
▫ If money were no concern, what would you be
doing?

• Approach two– use of assessments:
▫ DiSC (Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and
Conscientiousness)
▫ “Now Discover Your Strengths” by Buckingham and
Clifton.

** Treat these tests as advisory only

• As you explore your student’s/employees/clients
personality you come to realize who they are is
really determined by the choices they make.
• How they choose to react one way over another,
or to prefer one thing over another.
• Take this one step further and ask:
▫ Why they make the choices they do
 When you know the why you begin to see how they
can become fulfilled through the work they do.

• Putting it all together – ask:
▫ What their talents and strengths are
▫ The talents they achieve the most with
▫ The activities they get the most satisfaction from;
 The type of activity the assessment – if applicable –
moves them toward

“Moving on is a gift you give yourself.”

- Joan Rivers

Phase II - Exploring Options
• Proactively identifying, understanding and
matching student/employee/client to the
possibilities.
• Struggle occurs when:
▫ Pursue a career path that is at odds with values,
beliefs, and way of seeing the world.
 Leads to poor performance, stress and pressure

• Starting Point
▫ Brainstorming – jobs individual thinks would
suite who they are.
▫ Research top careers they have identified
• Career Tests
▫ Princeton Review Career Quiz (FREE!)
▫ Self-directed-search.com (inexpensive – good
selection of careers)
▫ Assessment.com (inexpensive – good selection of
careers)
▫ Career test are merely a starting point not a final
destination.

• Research:
▫ Sites like:
 Acinet.org
 bls.gov/oco
▫ Reading industry / career magazines
understanding of major players in the industry as
well as issues/problems/trends etc..
▫ Attend professional and trade shows
▫ Participate in job fairs
▫ Visit company websites
▫ Volunteering

“The best thing about the future is that it comes
only one day at a time.”
-Abraham Lincoln

Phase III - Developing Skills & Experience
• Building skills, knowledge & reputation
• Co-op and Internships
• Volunteer
• Accepting part-time work within your industry

“Everything, absolutely everything you’ve ever
wanted now lies within reach! Of course, you
still have to reach.”
- Mike Dooley
www.tut.com

Phase IV - Marketing Self
• Obtaining the skills to seek, obtain, maintain and change jobs.
• Realize that you are a brand
▫ Cover Letter
▫ Resume
▫ Portfolio
 Hard Copy
 Web
▫ Network
▫ References
• Ask:
▫ Would YOU interview YOU?
▫ Would YOU hire YOU?
• The Exact Right Product to the Exact Right Target Market
Using the Exact Right Media at the Exact Right Time

• Ask:
▫ Would YOU interview YOU?
▫ Would YOU hire YOU?
• The Exact Right Product to the Exact Right
Target Market Using the Exact Right Media at
the Exact Right Time

• Use a SWOT:
▫ Strengths
 What are you good at?
 What skills do others recognize in you?
 What do you do better than most people you work
with?
 What about yourself, are you most proud of or
satisfied with?
 What experiences, resources or connections do you
have access to that others don’t.

IV - Marketing Self
• Use SWOT
▫ Weaknesses
 What do you try to do that you can’t seem to master?
 What do you do only because you have to do?
 Are there one or two aspects of your personality that
hold you back?
 What do other people most often identify as a
weakness for you?
 Where are you vulnerable?
 Where do you lack experience, resources or
connections where others have them?

• Use a SWOT:
▫ Opportunities
 What ways can you maximize strengths?
 What opportunities are open to those who do these
things well?
 What would you love to do that you’re good at?
 How can you minimize your weaknesses?
 Where do you see the most potential growth for
yourself?
 What trends are having an impact on your current
career or one you are thinking about pursuing?

• Use a SWOT:
▫ Threats
 Do you have weaknesses that need to be addressed
before you can move forward?
 What problems could your weaknesses cause if
unchecked?
 What setbacks might you face?
 What obstacles have other people overcome to get to
where you want to go?

“I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the
harder I work, the more I have of it.”
- Thomas Jefferson

Phase V - Performing & Planning Next
Steps
• From Paper to Application
 Now have something very few people have a well
thought out Personal Plan
 Take the self – organizational steps to bring plan to
life.
 Write a Career Mission Statement
▫ What you intend to accomplish and why
 Determine short-term and long – term goals and action
steps
▫ Create your To Do List

Phase V - Performing & Planning Next
Steps
• From Paper to Application Cont…
 Review SWOT and see if you need to take any action
to mitigate these threats. Add to “TO DO” list.
 Examine skills and competencies
 Commitment to work on the plan everyday.

Final Thoughts
Remember the Career Journey is as dynamic as you
are. As circumstances change, so does your plan.
Rather than scrapping the plan all together, make
changes along the way to keep it current and
relevant.

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