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Are you feeling curious about careers? Or perhaps lost or uncertain?
Do you know where you want to be and don't know how to quite make it happen?
Career coaching can help bring you closer to your goal.
What is career coaching?
What is career coaching?
In your career, there are no easy and straightforward answers about how you should land that job or to find a field that you're going to thrive in. As you go through your career, you will always be changing, developing, and learning.
A career coach is someone who can go with you on that journey, offering a personalized, action-oriented, and non-judgmental perspective to help you reflect on and achieve your career goals, no matter where you want to go. A career coach can help you define your desired goals, help you articulate when you've achieved them, explore thinking, resources and strategies around making them happen, and reflect on the kind of person you want to become through achieving these goals.
With expert knowledge in careers, I will guide you in exploring careers, developing your career, and using job search tools and frameworks.
With a coaching mindset, I will help you develop your ability to be a self-aware, self-directed learner in your professional life. You won't always have a coach working with you, or even a professor, mentor, or friend looking out for you in the working world. How will you make career decisions? Set goals? Execute plans? Understand your own priorities?
Our end goal will be for you to feel confident because you know you have what it takes to figure it out on your own.
What kind of topics do you talk about in a career coaching session? What kind of challenges are you able to help me address?
What kind of topics do you talk about in a career coaching session? What kind of challenges are you able to help me address?
As a career coach, I have worked with young adults and early-career professionals on the entire range of career and education-related issues.
If you're having trouble figuring out what you want to discuss, consider the magic wand. experiment. If you could wave a magic wand and change one thing about your current education or career situation, what would you change? While I am not a certified magician, we can focus on this change, address the underlying issues, and move toward actions you can take to make it a reality.
Here is a sampling of what we might address in a coaching session:
Thinking about your priorities for how to use a summer internship
Diagnosing the right time and reasons to move on from your first job
Preparing for an upcoming college internship interview with a mock interview
Reflecting on your work experience and what graduate school options might be a good fit
Understanding how to select a college major
Evaluating your job search strategy and brainstorming on how to use networking and other soft skills
How is a career coach different from a therapist, guidance counselor, or career counselor?
How is a career coach different from a therapist, guidance counselor, or career counselor?
Career coaches are not mental health therapists. Mental health professionals have advanced degrees with clinical practicums and training. Their role is to help people through the most challenging moments of their lives, make sense of traumatic experiences, and diagnose and treat serious mental illness. Guidance counselors and career counselors do similar work to career coaches, but are also mental health professionals with a formal counseling degree and clinical background.
Career coaches use similar tools and techniques with a different focus. As a career coach, I am here to help you achieve your professional goals, wherever those may be and however you define them. A simple but useful way to think about the difference is that career coaching sessions can be considered personalized training, whereas counseling or therapy sessions can be considered personalized treatment.
Career coaches also commonly have industry experience (rather than academic training) and have a credential from an educational association (e.g. GCDF, CCSP) or coaching organization (e.g. ICF). Whoever you end up working with as a career coach, make sure you understand their training and qualifications. Coaches will always be happy to share!
How can I try a coaching session? What does a long-term coaching commitment look like, and how much does it cost?
How can I try a coaching session? What does a long-term coaching commitment look like, and how much does it cost?
You can book a FREE, 30-minute Discovery Call with me right here. Clearly mention what you would like to address within this call. This is a no-strings-attached, FREE, one-time consultation to help you better understand how a career coach can help you with what you want to achieve.
After the initial Discovery Call, we can determine together the scope of your goals and if a longer-term coaching commitment is the right way for you to get closer to your career goals. I typically work with clients on 4-6 month coaching commitments, with one 60-minute session per month (or in some cases, every two weeks).
My 60-minute sessions begin at $130 US/4000 NT. Coaching commitments can also be upgraded to include material review (resume, cover letter, SOP) and other customized services.
What are your clients saying about working with you?
What are your clients saying about working with you?
"Working with Connie was an amazing experience! As a young college student trying to navigate the job search, I often felt overwhelmed and unsure of my next steps. Connie’s coaching gave me not only practical advice but also a new level of confidence in myself and my career path."
"I heavily recommend working with Ms. Ma because it is a no-pressure, hands-on way to learn vital career skills!"
"Overall, I found working with Ms. Ma to be extremely beneficial, and an experience that I strongly recommend to high school students, particularly juniors and seniors."
Who is not best suited to do a coaching commitment with you?
Who is not best suited to do a coaching commitment with you?
People looking exclusively for specialized advice and suggestions: As a career coach, I can help you come up with options, but your career decisions are your responsibility. You need to learn what your decision-making process is and begin to trust yourself.
People looking for expertise in tech or finance recruiting and want to be guided through that process.
People looking for structured undergraduate or graduate admissions assistance: I recommend working with a college or graduate school admissions consultant!
People who are senior level or C-suite professionals looking for executive leadership coaching.
Want to get started? Let's talk careers.
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