An Insider's Guide to Career Coaching

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Summary: An Insider's Guide to Career Coaching
Review: Whether reading it as a career coach, parent, counselor, or professional who helps others with their career decisions, I found Insider's Guide To Career Coaching to be loaded with specific examples, valuable tests, and helpful client tools. Readers will find practical techniques and up-to-date access to market information. This book is poised for action. Yes, the examples are geared towards career issues, but isn't every one faced periodically with trying to help someone in a career crisis? This book shows the reader how to ask powerful questions, clarify needs and promote one's ability to make a "quantum shift". How do you handle it if your client becomes emotional or triggers an emotion in you? Insider's Guide is one of the first published books to offer practical use of Chris Argyris's Ladder of Inference, useful NLP techniques, and the International Coach Federation (ICF) guidelines together.

As the labor market continues to evolve, career coaching will be a vital skill set. I'm using the Insider's Guide as my handbook for helping others find their Authentic Vocation and to make the necessary adjustments to the 21st century labor market. When appropriate, I'm using it as a textbook for clients, too.

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Summary: A Must-Buy for Career Management Professionals
Review: With so many books on the market for career-challenged consumers, how helpful to finally have a book right for me, the career coach who assists these individuals! This practice-building book written by a career coaching master is filled with coaching models, tools, tips and forms that provide discernible structure to the career coaching process.

Whether coaching a client to discover career choices aligned with his life purpose, or coaching another through career transition using this author's Authentic Vocation model, this book will be by my side coaching me to be the best career coach that I can be.

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Summary: Best resource for career and job search
Review: Wonderfully practical, comprehensive resource for BOTH those seeking help with their career/job search as well as those who guide others through that process. The book is organized into 2 main sections - one contains the comprehensive career/job search content and the other provides a powerful coaching approach for career as well as business coaches, incorporating the best coaching thinking in the field. Ms. Bench has done a fabulous job of sorting through all of the "career stuff" out there and presenting the reader with a compelling, organized framework to move through the process effectively.