A career coach and a recruiter both provide services to help you improve your career. But they have, different reaches, different objectives, and different processes. Knowing and understanding to specific roles and goals of both will help you to decide how to use each to maximize the attainment of your career goals. If fact, there is a good chance you will want to use both in a complementary manner to obtain your ideal job.
Brief synopsis of a career coach
Individuals engage a career coach to discover their true calling. The primary goal is to discover precisely what their ideal career looks like—defining the conditions that bring fulfillment, enjoyment and success—and then assist them to achieve it. The possible ideal income positions include working in a job for an organization, working for yourself as independent contractor or as a business owner.
Brief synopsis of a recruiter
Recruiters are typically paid by organizations to find desirable candidates to fill specific job openings, frequently not publicized. Recruiters actively approach potential candidates and attempt to convince them to consider meeting with the organization whether the candidates are believed to be seeking new employment or not. Recruiters are in essence more aggressive laser focused headhunters.
Use a Career Coach to Define Your Career Goals
By using you career coach to attain true self awareness will allow you to discover and organize the conditions in detail you want to develop your ideal career that suits you. These are the conditions that allow you to fulfill your newly discovered passions and priorities, follow your beliefs and values, maximize your talents and avoid as many of your self imposed obstacles as you can. You are now set to seek and obtain your well defined career.
Get Recruiters to Work For You
Sharing the desirable conditions, you created for your ideal jobs with the recruiters who represent your chosen organizations and fields of work will be beneficial for both you and the recruiters. Your clarity of purpose, known talents and strong motivations to perform very well will place you at the top of recruiter lists because they know you will be an excellent candidate for organizations seeking your qualifications. This way you can use the right recruiters to become your representatives to connect and promote you to the best matched organizations. Another win-win scenario to help you get your ideal job.
Blog Author
Brought to you by Bill Dueease Founder/President of The Coach Connection who struggled for 14 years using the Trial and Error method to figure out what he wanted to do when he grew up and failed over 10 times. In desperation he chose to get a career coach and after much effort he connected with the right coach for him. Through the remarkable career coaching self-awareness process, he discovered his passion and talents were to create and operate his own business so that others would be able to find and select their ideal life coach with only one call and avoid all the pitfalls he encountered. He started TCC in 2001 to fulfill all of his goals and personal requirements and never looked back. He shares his full story in his online book entitled “Go To Play Every Day and call it work” which he has been enjoying since 2001.
