Are you no longer satisfied with your current job? Would you like to know what opportunities and challenges still await you? Or would you like to progress professionally? Then career counseling could be just the thing for you.
Career counseling usually comprises several phases: first an in-depth assessment of the current situation, then the development of the professional goal and finally the concrete planning to achieve this goal.
The first interview is part of the professional assessment, which gives you an initial indication of your current situation and how you can master it. The first meeting is free of charge and serves to get to know each other and as a basis for an offer. A thorough professional assessment deals with even more in-depth questions:
- How has your career developed so far?
- What from your previous career is so attractive to you that you want to take it with you into your professional future? What would you like to get rid of?
- What have always been your dreams that you never dared to tackle?
- What are you really good at? What do you really enjoy doing and what is really important to you? These key questions and the answers to them often shape career decisions.
- What knowledge and experience do you have from your previous career? What do you want to use to build on this?
The second step is career planning, in which the following questions, among others, could point the way:
- What goals can be derived from the assessment? What do you need to be able to formulate your goals?
- Which continuing education, further training will help you achieve your goals? Is the continuing education, further training recognized?
- How do you know when you have reached your goal? What will be different from today?
- What resources do you need to achieve your goals? Are these available to you today or how can you obtain them?
- What obstacles could stand in your way? What do you need to overcome them?
- By when do you want to have reached your goal?
Finally, it is about realizing the ideas so that your goals take on a concrete form:
- What are the concrete next steps towards your goal? When and how will you tackle them?
- Do you need support, e.g. financial support for continuing education, further training?
- Is the desired development possible with the current employer? If not, what alternatives are there?
There are many more questions; ultimately, your career counseling session will address your exact questions and provide you with answers. Career counseling can involve a longer process with a corresponding number of sessions, but it can also be completed after just a few sessions. As a rule, this becomes clear in an initial consultation, so that I can make you a concrete and binding offer.
Please also note the Simnar offer and the other advisory services:
- Career counseling in companies
- Coaching
- Management support