If you are in education and looking for a different career path, you have probably found those social media groups and asked the question “What did you go into?” for inspiration.
Let me guess the answers:
- Supply teaching
- Tutoring in one form or another
- Set up your own travel business, accompanied by lots of lovely photos.
Yes, 100% you can do any of those things. And if you want to do that, you have an open road stretching before you… go for it!
But what if you don’t want to teach (rules out supply and tutoring) and you are not interested in a long-tail “run your own business” venture that will take a lot of time to generate enough income to live off and that’s even with business experience?
What can you really do?
No, I’m serious. What skills do you have? What do you enjoy doing? What would you love to do as your next career move?
These are not random questions. As an accredited career coach, these are real questions I ask my clients. The answers provide me with vital information about a client’s current skills, experience and qualification and their dream job. Think about it again, what would you love to do as your next career move?
So, then what?
Next is the strategic plan that will map out precisely what steps are required to get the dream job – and the reality check, depending on how many steps are involved, what you will do to generate income whilst achieving those steps. We also work on mindset to give clients the self-belief and resilience, along with other transformational changes that rocket-launch success.
How to get the dream job.
You work through your strategic plan and that will include practical advice, visioning scenarios and skills sessions as part of the career coaching process. It is tailored precisely to YOU, your needs and your dream goal. It is 100% bespoke.
Now you tell me – who is going to get the new dream career move?
Candidate A: proactively sought out social media advice, created a CV and had a friend check it, sent it to loads of recruiters and job ads (suffered lots of rejection and crushed self-belief) then gets short-listed to attend their first non-education selection process.
Candidate B: proactively followed a tailored strategic plan, has a professionally written CV optimised to stand-out to the recruiters in the dream field of work, had some rejections but uses the experience and mindset techniques to grow further, then gets short-listed to attend their first non-education selection process armed with all the training and tools from the career coaching journey.
Career coaching is not an expensive version of a recruitment agency. Career coaching does not provide you with a list of job opportunities and hand your CV around a bit. It is a vital form of education that teaches you how to transition careers, ensures you have the best matched path for your skills, and provides life-transformational coaching, too.
Is there anywhere else you can get all these benefits?
Yes – university.
Perhaps now you can see that career coaching is not so expensive after all, and you’ll start your new career faster than it takes to complete a degree!
Careers after teaching are real – to get them, you first need to have the right education. Now there’s irony for you.
Start your education today, get in touch.
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