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Jan
28

Career coaching for fresh graduates

Author: Sally Croft

Hello Graduates and those students at the fag end of your graduation! How are you? Have you planned what kind of a career you are going to choose after your graduation? Well, do you know what your career options are in the first place? If yes, what is that you know about those options? How will you proceed? My my, too many questions! Relax, let’s go one by one.

Know your Career Options:

Knowing your career option is the first step in focusing on a successful career. Apart from those regular and well known jobs its time for you to know what are the various options and newly emerged careers. Even that you come to know, you should be equipped enough to venture into those careers. That certainly requires a lot of guidance and preparation from those who are aware of its procedure.

Career Coaching – a good start:

It is at this juncture that you need a counselor or a trained expert to help you understand the various angles and options that will help you prepare for the challenge. A number of career coaching experts are there to help you by offering career management and coaching services to graduates or yet to become graduate students. These specialized services are offered at a price which is payable at the time of opting for the service.

What should I expect from Career Counseling?

There are many institutions that offer free online career advice services. Services range from career management, psychometric assessment tests preparing candidates for competitive tests and CV evaluations helping candidates to excel better in their job interviews providing them the most required skills to handle the circumstance and to be prepared to face the toughest of competition.

Such professional services not only help you get away with the limitations of a self led approach of knowing things on a trial and error basis, but also help you take informed decision in choosing a career. An informed decision does not leave you with surprises later in your career.

Normally speaking assistance of this kind is offered by friends, relatives and one’s own siblings, provided you have one, but for a majority of those aspiring graduates who are not so lucky enough to get such assistance, professional institutions offer the required help taking the services of consultants who are well qualified with more than a decades experience helping professional get the best out of their career.

So what have you decided?

What do you think of career counseling, have you found one for yourself or someone whom you think need an assistance of this kind?

Friends give me your comments; share your feelings on career coaching, maybe we can help each other and fellow readers to make a wise decision.

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7 Responses to “Career coaching for fresh graduates”

  1. Lindsay R says:

    It’s a great post Sally, I started reading and couldn’t stop till end. I graduated a year ago & have suffered all the usual confusions and headaches any student can face before starting a career. Thanks

  2. bread says:

    I agreed new graduate need career coaching / counseling but it’s not compulsory. With career coaching / counseling at least they have a clear picture what will they face when they start with a new job.

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  3. Sally Croft says:

    @ Bread, Thanks. Actually that’s the whole point of career counseling, to make students aware of possibilities and options available for them.

  4. I am graduate but yes, I am trying to make living out of blogging.
    Is that a good career option ? Lets see…

  5. Hey, nice tips. I’ll buy a glass of beer to that man from that chat who told me to visit your site :)

  6. Sally Croft says:

    Thank you friends for stopping by and leaving your valuable comments.
    *Cheers*

  7. Debby Ballato says:

    Couldn’t be written any better. Reading this post reminds me of my old room mate! He always kept talking about this. I will forward this article to him. Pretty sure he will have a good read. Thanks for sharing!

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