Career Transition Coaching: 4 Steps to Making a Successful Career Move

Are you looking to land the ideal role that aligns with your values and plays to your strengths? If you answered yes, you’re not alone. According to a recent survey, close to half of employees are looking for a new job or plan to soon.

A career transition is the point when an individual is changing roles or their direction in a current role. This shift comprises asking questions like:

  • What is your ideal role?
  • How does it align with your values?
  • How does this relate to your long-term goals?

When you seek support for your internal or external job search, consider career transition coaching, which will guide you through this process.

What is Career Transition Coaching?

Career coaching helps professionals develop a comprehensive strategy and an action plan to gain momentum, grow and advance in their careers. A robust career coaching program should include both “inner” and “outer” work to produce the most value and guide your future career path.

Through a tailored and customized program, coaching sessions are designed to:

  • Empower you to identify and land the ideal role, which aligns with your values and plays to your strengths.
  • Help you “tackle the tactical” parts of the job search, by developing compelling credentials to get you noticed and stand out from the crowd.
  • Prepare you for job interviews (in-person and via video).
  • Assist you conveying your value proposition and personal brand, with ease and confidence.
  • Support you in expanding your comfort zone, to interview and present yourself fearlessly, avoid common pitfalls, and set yourself up to start strong and ensure success in your new role.
  • Assist you in mastering building resiliency to sustain your outlook, energy and mindset though your career transition.

Career Transition Steps

Here are four steps to explore for a successful career transition:

1.   Discover What Makes You Tick

  • Values and drivers: organizational fit
  • Day-to-day strengths: job fit (+)
  • Stress response: job fit (-)

2.   Design Your Path to Success

  • Gain clarity on your unique attributes
  • Eliminate fear from designing your vision and setting your goals
  • Craft your value proposition to convey your brand powerfully

3.   Deploy Your Action Plan

4.   Deliver Your Full Potential

  • Bring power and conviction to your story
  • Execute your plan intentionally and accountably
  • Keep your engagement high and your focus sharp

These steps are most effective when performed in combination with an assessment such as the Hogan Personality Assessment, which helps to develop insight into your most important values and motivators. This enables you to assess how well you’ll align with an organization’s culture.

Through this process, you also can identify the behaviors that serve you well day-to-day and how overplaying these strengths can derail your performance or damage your reputation. The robust self-awareness provided by Hogan helps you perform with greater confidence, authenticity and poise in interviews, network meetings and other career conversations.

In conclusion, mapping out a new path is not always easy. It can be challenging to know what you want to do next. There are many factors that go into making this decision. With the help of a career coach, you can successfully make that transition and obtain your dream job.

Get Results from Career Transition Coaching

If you want to secure your ideal role, you could benefit from collaborating with a career coach. Schedule a complimentary discovery session today.