{"id":7999,"date":"2018-09-24T09:05:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T09:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/?p=7999"},"modified":"2025-04-09T21:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T21:14:12","slug":"im-going-to-college-do-i-need-a-career-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/im-going-to-college-do-i-need-a-career-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m going to college.  Do I need a Career Coach?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fortune magazine said: Do you have a career coach?\u00a0If not, you could be limiting your success.\u00a0 A ten-year study of coaching at Amoco, now part of British Petroleum, resulted in the finding that those who received coaching earned on average 50% higher salary increase.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7384\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7384\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-7384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ethics-are-critical-blog-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Do I need a Career Coach? \" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ethics-are-critical-blog-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/ethics-are-critical-blog-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do I need a Career Coach?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.monster.com\/career-advice\/article\/4-signs-hire-career-coach-0129\">Monster.com<\/a> listed 4 reasons to get a career coach.\u00a0 They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You feel unfulfilled<\/li>\n<li>You don\u2019t know who to trust<\/li>\n<li>You\u2019ve been job shopping without direction<\/li>\n<li>You\u2019re not advancing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, there are a multitude of reasons someone may utilize the services of a career coach.<\/p>\n<p>So, do you need a career coach?\u00a0 Certainly you want one!<\/p>\n<p>The real question is, What is a career coach? There is a big difference between career counselors or consultants and career coaches.\u00a0 A career coach has professional training in the Core Competencies of a coach from the <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/resource\/icf-core-competencies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Coach Federation<\/a>, ICF, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingfederation.org\/credentialing\/coaching-ethics\/icf-code-of-ethics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ICF Code of Ethics<\/a>.\u00a0 Whereas a career counselor or consultant will tell you what to do and how to do it, a career coach will put you in charge of choosing what you want and how to achieve it with the coaching process.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes working with someone who offers career counseling, consulting, training, and coaching is smart.\u00a0 Ask about the different roles and choose a coach who clearly differentiates what they offer in terms of coach training, coaching experience, and the coaching process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortune magazine said: Do you have a career coach?\u00a0If not, you could be limiting your success.\u00a0 A ten-year study of coaching at Amoco, now part &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[470,471,16,40],"tags":[124,48,50,49,274,726,507],"class_list":["post-7999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-resources","category-coaching-skills","category-coaching-stories","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-career-coach","tag-coach","tag-coaching","tag-code-of-ethics","tag-core-competencies","tag-ice","tag-international-coach-federation","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7999"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12648,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999\/revisions\/12648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}