Career Guidance

One of the most challenging thing about career guidance, is that as a career coach, I do not have your answers. What I do have is the questions that can enable you to generate your own professional solutions.

In this society we have become increasingly externally referenced. By ‘externally referenced’ what I mean is that we have come to expect our answers to come from the outside. We are encouraged to address our internal atmosphere by buying things in the outside world. We have become used to busying ourselves with information and noise and technology. We allow ourselves to be distracted by other people, places and things. All these things I have listed can detract from the wisdom we hold within. We have come to believe that our solutions lie with ‘experts’ and with individual’s who are ‘authorities in their field’. What we seem to have forgotten is that the best person to know what you need, is you.

So if you come to me for career guidance, what you will actually find here is the time to formulate your own questions. What you will find here is the space to explore your own possibilities. What you will find here is the quiet within which to hear your own answers. Whatever coaching intervention I choose to employ, and I have access to many, this comes down to you. Whatever expertise and experience I bring, and I do love my work, this work is about you. Whatever power I hold as an authority in my field, it is you who truly knows what you need. All these things are merely in service of your journey towards refining your professional purpose in the world. Once you have generated your own answers to your professional questions, you will have access to your own internal career compass. Listen you yourself and you will find that you already know exactly what it is that you need. Authentic and sustainable career guidance inevitably needs to come from the inside.

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