Navigating the early stages of your career can be daunting. With countless applications, tough competition and intense pressure to land a job, it is easy to feel lost. That’s where career coaching comes in.
A great career coach doesn’t just help you get a job, they help you find the right job. Whether you’re a recent graduate struggling to get a foot on the career ladder or a young professional looking to advance quickly, the right guidance from a career coach can help.
We are the UK’s foremost career coaching compaby for graduates with 15+ years of experience. In this post, we share the benefits of career coaching for young adults and explain how we can help young adults not only get a job but to get the job that is right for them through our career coaching programmes.
1: It helps young adults to become more confident
Confidence is key.
During the job search process, it is vital that you demonstrate that you have confidence in your own skills and abilities and that you can confidently articulate this to employers in your applications and interviews.
Think of it this way, if you do not have confidence in yourself, how can you expect potential employers to have confidence in you?
Furthermore, once you land your job, having confidence will enable you to quickly form business relationships and push yourself out of your comfort zone which will contribute to your career success.
Getting a career coach as a young adult, early on in your career will help you to grow in confidence.
Here at Graduate Coach, many of the graduates that we help come to us after months or even years of searching for a good graduate job. Due to the numerous rejections and setbacks they have faced, they tend to come to us with low confidence and self-esteem.
Our coaching programmes are designed to help students graduates and career changers to regain their confidence by helping them to understand their skills and interests and how they can apply these attributes to specific roles. Furthermore, we give graduates extensive training on how to present themselves and interview confidently. These are skills that many young graduates do not learn until they have progressed in their careers further.
Career coaching gives young adults a competitive edge in the job market by helping them to stand out amongst the hundreds of thousands of job seekers.
2: It helps young adults to discover their career path
It is very common for graduates to leave university with no idea what to do next. There is a wide range of options available to graduates, such as graduate schemes, graduate jobs, internships, graduate placements, boot camps, further education and more.
We find that when a graduate does not know what to do after university, they tend to panic and apply to jobs willy-nilly. The problem with this approach is that graduate employers can tell. They are trained to identify candidates that have a genuine interest in the role and who have crafted a well-thought-out, high-quality application.
We use a very simple framework to help young adults to figure out their core skills and align it with the graduate job opportunities that will suit them best.
Once grads know the exact job title that they will apply for, we then help them to create a tailored achievement-based graduate CV and cover letter. This enables them to make much higher quality applications and in term gets them invites for interviews.
3. Teaches the lifelong skill of how to master interviews
Many graduates and young adults get very nervous when it comes to interviews.
This is because unless they went to drama school as a child, they will not have received adequate performance training. In many ways, interviews are like performances, where candidates must communicate clearly, and in an engaging way to the interviewer.
We teach graduates how to perform well in any interview. This is a lifelong skill that will help young adults to thrive in their careers and stop them from missing out on many great career opportunities.
Interview processes typically include a telephone screen, behavioural/competency interviews and a final/ informal chat interview.
Young Professional Coaching
Young professional coaching is a type of coaching that is designed specifically for individuals who are just starting out in their careers or who are relatively new to the workforce. This type of coaching can help young professionals develop the skills, knowledge, and confidence they need to succeed in their industry.
Here at Graduate Coach, as well as helping graduates to get their first job, we coach young professionals to help them to thrive in their careers.
Some of the areas that young professional coaching may focus on include:
- Career development: Coaching can help young professionals identify their strengths and interests, set career goals, and develop a plan to achieve those goals.
- Communication skills: Effective communication is key to success in any career. Coaching can help young professionals develop their communication skills, including written and verbal communication, active listening, and conflict resolution.
- Time management: Learning to manage one’s time effectively is an important skill for any professional. Coaching can help young professionals learn how to prioritize tasks, set realistic deadlines, and avoid procrastination.
- Leadership development: Even if someone is not in a formal leadership role, developing leadership skills can be important for career growth. Coaching can help young professionals develop the skills and mindset needed to lead effectively, such as delegation, decision-making, and accountability.
Find out more about how career coaching can boost your early career
If you are a young adult that is keen to excel in your career or a parent of a graduate who is in need of some professional career guidance, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us here at Graduate Coach.
We offer a wide range of career coaching services to help UK-based, and international graduates to turn their degrees into careers.
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