Work: we change course

2023 Author: Anita Thornton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-11-27 18:44

You've thought about it for a long time… You don't like your job anymore. How to proceed? Who to consult? We give you some tips for successful career coaching!

You've thought about it for a long time… You don't like your job anymore. What are you going to be able to do? Your reality has changed and you now want to orient yourself in a job that will correspond more to your values, but which will take into account your skills? How to proceed? Who to consult? We give you some tips for successful career coaching!

Think before you act

When you decide to reorient your career, whether by choice, following a dismissal, because you are reaching a plateau in your professional career or because you want to access a higher level position, it is more and more frequent to call on a professional coach.

Before embarking on a career change, you need to think carefully so as not to make unfortunate decisions. Career coaching is a support service that can help you in this reflection. By having a few meetings with a professional coach, you will be able to make the decisions corresponding to your professional aspirations, withoutprecipitation.

As Jean-François Ouellet, consultant in HRM and Organizational Development at Adecco HR Consulting Services points out, career coaching is done with the aim of achieving more personal and professional development objectives or targets. quickly and more efficiently.”

This service can support you according to your needs:

Identifying your professional aspirationsJob search assistanceCurriculum vitae editingInterview coachingDeveloping your professional skills, etc.

The coaching process is done through one-off meetings, according to your needs. You establish objectives, action plans, identify and determine the best strategies to use. The number of meetings and their regularity play a decisive role in your coaching. This must be a real partnership between you and your coach, a relationship that will allow you to express yourself in an atmosphere of trust, openness and transparency.

The coach helps you identify the right targets, set better goals, and work effectively to achieve them. It helps you clarify what you really want. He accompanies you, supports you and guides you towards achieving what is really important to you.

To achieve this, certain steps can be taken before the meeting.

Getting to know each other

Coach focuses on what's most important to you. Mr. Ouellet specifies that at this stage, “you have to be aware of your needs and be ready to meet them”. To achieve this, you will determine what is essential to you by developing your motivational profile.

To do so, you must identify your:

NeedsExpectationsValuesAspirationsCareer GoalsDominant Motivations

What is most important to you at work? The relationships you have with colleagues, the title you are given, authenticity, personal development, freedom and autonomy?

Take the time to list and answer these questions. You might be surprised at the result

Once the main motivations have been established, take an inventory of your skills.

The ones you have, but would like to develop further;The ones you don't have, but want to get;The ones you prefer to use;The ones you don't have and don't have of interest to you.

This step will further clarify the focus of your coaching. The coach will suggest a structure to identify your profile. You will be the only one to make decisions, but the goal being to provide you with the best possible framework to make them, he will also be there to guide you as needed.

To continue this process and give yourself an even better chance of success, identify in detail your career and life goals.

What is your main interest?

Reconcilework-familyPay off your debtsGet a job that matches your skillsProve yourself, surpass yourself, etc.

Following these clarifications, your coach will help you make the necessary awareness in order to change what can hinder the achievement of your career goals.

Be aware of your needs and ready to assume them, it is a capital realization to evolve your thinking

The coach will help you to be aware of your potential, your strengths, your limits and your abilities. He will explore with you your determination, your deep motivations in order to avoid any possible obstacle.

You probably already know that there are several conceptions of career success. Have you already identified yours? What motivates your performance, your efforts and makes you want to go to work in the morning?

Do you want to have:

PleasurePower, money, influencePrestige, recognitionAdvancement, etc.

As a result of this process, you should be able to better understand your motivational profile at work

Take the right direction

You've done a lot of the work already. Now it remains to identify what job you are looking for. Mr. Ouellet believes that it is normal, at this time, to be confronted with certain contradictions. If you want both a luxurious lifestyle and balance work and family, you will have to make choices. Will you be ready to give up one oranother of your goals, in favor of another more important to you? “The important thing is to stay as consistent as possible with your goals, in order to make an informed choice,” he adds.

To pursue your work, you will have to define your ideal job and the organization you would like to work for, in which field, what level of responsibility, what style of management and more. You will have to refer to what you identified previously at the motivational profile stage and try to find what best suits your new objectives. This is how you will gradually rise to the challenges ahead!

For the rest, refer to a professional coach who will be able to support you in this important step of career reorientation.

You can call on the professionals of Adecco HR Consulting Services at 514-845-8299.