Exploring Your Career

Looking to move back into work? Feeling dissatisfied in your present job? Wanting to move to a career that suits you?

Talking through your thoughts, with my guidance, can lead to increased clarity of what you want to do, and a deeper understanding of enjoyable work for you.

I offer a series of five sessions, where we explore what you want from work, what you like to have in your work, and possible ideas for jobs.

By the end of session five, you will:

• Be clear on what you do and don't like in work
• Understand more about how you work

And you will have:

• Identified your next steps
• Uncovered two to three work ideas which really enthuse you

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Focusing Your Job-Hunting

Job-hunting at the moment? Not getting the interviews? Getting the interviews but not the job? Or just not seeing jobs you're interested in?

I offer a series of three sessions where we look in depth at how your job-hunting is going, and how you can make it easier and more effective. Much of the first session will be spent exploring how you can be more focused, with the remaining time spent on how you are putting yourself across to employers.

The aims of the sessions are:

• To clarify and confirm your goal
• To focus the time you spend on job-hunting
• To explore any areas of weakness or concerns
• To look at how you come across to companies

NEW!

Getting interviews but not the job?  By having an Interview Practice session with me you will be able to identify how you can improve your technique so that you're more likely to achieve your goal.  We will spend 15 to 20 minutes in an interview situation, recording you and your responses. Then for the rest of the hour session,  we will look at how you can improve your interview skills, using the video footage to demonstrate points.  Most people have interviews so infrequently it's well worth spending a bit of time improving your skills and your chances!

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Unravelling Your Career

Feeling stuck in your work and can't see that anything would be any better? Lost a job in the past and it’s still affecting you? Or you've never really enjoyed work?

I offer a confidential, supportive service of four sessions where we sit down together and talk through what has happened for you. By exploring the past, you will be able to move towards a time when you truly enjoy work again.

Areas we discuss include:

• Reasons why you chose your current and previous careers
• Your expectations when you started your jobs and how they changed
• What you feel went ‘wrong’ and other things you found particularly difficult
• Your relationships with your boss and colleagues

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One-off Sessions

You may feel that initially you would only like one session, or that at this stage you only need one or two sessions.  If this sounds like you, please give me a call, so we can discuss.

Topics where one or two sessions may be the most appropriate choice include:

• Exploring what you want from your work.  This can change through our lives, and just becoming clearer on this may be all you need to set you back on track.
• Refining what type of work you want to do (for when you know the area you want to be in).
• Choosing between two or three options (but be aware, if you are looking at the 'wrong' two or three careers, a one-off session may not resolve this).

Do you live a long way from Oxfordshire?

If you would find it difficult to get to see me regularly, I now offer career coaching where the first session is face-to-face, and subsequent sessions are over the phone (with email backup).  If this would suit you better, please phone me for more details. 

It may also be possible to have only telephone coaching (with no sessions face-to-face).  For coaching that is only by telephone, it is very important that we both feel we can build up a working relationship over the phone.  The best way to check this out is to have a chat over the phone, so please call me to see how it would work. 

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Career Clinic

Your opportunity to experience how I can help you without committing yourself.  Every month, I hold a Career Clinic at the WelBeing Clinic, Oxford where you can book a half-an-hour session for nothing, and with no obligation.  This is an ideal chance to see how career coaching works for you.

Next clinic:  Wednesday 12th November, appointments from 6.15pm.

To book, please call the WellBeing Clinic on 0845  330  3930.  Reception is open Monday to Friday between 9.30 and 12.45, and 2.15 to 5.30.  The WellBeing Clinic is easily accessible from the A34 and is a 10 minute bus ride from the train/ bus stations.

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