Dispelling the Myths About Career Coaching - Myth #9

Myth #9: I’ve been doing career counseling or career consulting for years; I’ll just start calling myself a career coach now.

Remember what we discussed in Myths 2 and 3? Career coaching requires specific training, skills, and knowledge in BOTH areas: career development AND coaching. Simply changing people’s titles to sound more “modern” or “catchy” does not make them career coaches. Indeed, one Fortune 500 company did this with their managers a year or so ago without providing any coaching skills training; this does a disservice to both the managers and those who are trained coaches!

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