Career Coaching: An Insider's Guide
NEW Second Edition

by Marcia Bench

"I'm very impressed with the quality of the work you've done. Fantastic job! I would be glad to...,based on the quality of your book, recommend people to attend your training program for career coaching. This book represents the exact kind of solid work we need in this field. Here's to raising the bar!"

~Stephen Fairley, author of Getting Started in Personal and Executive Coaching

"If you could buy only one coaching book, this practical gem should be it. One of those rare books that beckons coaches to read it not just cover to cover but over and over."
~ Author Richard Lieder

Written by one of the leading experts in the field, Career Coaching offers a comprehensive blend of career discovery tools, easy-to-use models, coaching principles, client tips, job search strategies, and numerous worksheets and assessments to help your clients get started on the road to job satisfaction.

Addressing the ever-changing corporate climate, increasing layoffs and self-employment, and pervasive job dissatisfaction present in today's workplace, this book presents simple yet multidimensional coaching methods that provide not just solutions to your clients' needs but awareness of a life purpose that can help them overcome any career obstacle.

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This textbook is divided into four parts:

Part One: The Practice of Career Coaching

1. Getting Started in Career Coaching: What It Is and Is Not
2. Ethical Considerations in Coaching

Part Two: The Authentic Vocation™ Model of Career Design

3. Overview of Authentic Vocation: Blending Passion & Pocketbook in Ideal Job
4. Authentic Vocation Factor 1: Life Purpose
5. Authentic Vocation Factor 2: Values
6. Authentic Vocation Factor 3: Motivators and Interests
7. Authentic Vocation Factor 4: Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
8. Authentic Vocation Factor 5: Work and Other Experience
9. Authentic Vocation Factor 6: Job/Career Targets
10. Authentic Vocation Factor 7: Work Environment
11. Authentic Vocation Factor 8: Business Reality

Part Three: QuantumShift!™ Coaching Principles

12. The QuantumShift! Coaching Model: Getting to Aha!
13. Initiating the Coaching Relationship
14. Three Core Coaching Competencies: the 3 “E’s” of Successful Coaching
15. Level 1 Coaching: Changing Performance and Behavior for the Better
16. Level 2 Coaching: Honing in on Beliefs, Perspective and Motivation
17. Level 3 Coaching: Shifting Personal Identity for Lasting Change
18. The Role of Intuition and Deep Listening in Coaching
19. Advanced Coaching Skills

Part Four: Job Search Mechanics

20. Succeeding at the Job Search: Developing a Marketing Plan and Allowing for Synchronicity
21. Tactics for the Published Job Market: Finding Jobs with Ads, Recruiters, and the Internet
22. Strategies for the Unpublished Job Market: Using Networking, Search Engines and Proactive Strategies to Reveal Hidden Opportunities
23. Resume Design Secrets: Developing the Client’s Personal Brand and Highlighting Their Most Marketable Attributes
24. Interviewing Strategies That Get the Job
25. Evaluating Job Offers: Wants versus Needs
26. Negotiating the Optimum Compensation Package

Conclusion

Also includes more than 30 worksheets and self-assessments for use by career coaches with their clients in the Career Coach's Toolbox

Appendix 1: Frequently Asked Questions About Career Coaching

Appendix 2: ICF Coaching Core Competencies

Appendix 3: Starting a Career Development Initiative at Your Company

More praise for Career Coaching:

"Marcia Bench is a voice of discipline, reason, and, above all else, integrity. Read this book if you are seeking the right questions to ask yourself and others!"
~Scott Blanchard, Executive Vice President, Client Solutions, The Ken Blanchard Companies

"The definitive book on how to build, develop, and manage a profitable career coaching business. Whether new to the business or a veteran, you'llfind this book useful and vital."
~Wendy S. Enelow, Director, Career Masters Institute

444 pages; High Flight Press 2008, ISBN 978-0-9817005-0-2

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