Certified Career Coach, Dr. Colleen Georges - Expert Career Coaching Services
How Can a Career Coach Help Me?
CAREER COACHING - CAREER EXPLORATION ~ CAREER CHANGE ~ CAREER ADVANCEMENT ~ JOB SEARCH ~ INTERVIEW PREPARATION ~ RESUME & COVER LETTER STRATEGIES ~ LINKEDIN STRATEGIES ~ PROFESSIONAL GOALS ~ WORK TIME MANAGEMENT ~ JOB STRESS MANAGEMENT ~ WORK LIFE BALANCE ~ & BEYOND!
I'm blessed to love the work I do. And, I want you to love your work too! As a Certified Career Coach and Certified Life Coach, I get to help my clients RESCRIPT their stories, speak to themselves and about themselves with compassion and confidence, and reach their unique professional and personal goals. Over the last 25+ years, I've worked with thousands of people to guide them in achieving their dreams!
Career coaching is a transformational experience. And, as we know, big changes can be a bit scary. So, when considering hiring a career coach, we usually have a lot of questions. Let's see if we can answer these questions for you to help you determine if career coaching is a good fit for you!
What is a Career Coach / What's the Difference Between Career Coaching and Counseling?
In addition to being a Certified Career Coach and Certified Life Coach, I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor, and for many years I provided counseling services. Today, I no longer provide counseling, I provide career coaching and life coaching. You might be wondering--how is coaching different from counseling?
Counseling (also referred to as therapy) involves diagnosing psychological dysfunction and helping clients manage deeper level clinical disorders and personality disorders. Counseling often explores a client's past and utilizes insights gained to resolve psychological and emotional traumas. Gaining insight is often a core focus of counseling.
Career Coaching involves helping clients who are feeling stuck in achieving their goals to get unstuck. Career Coaching is present and future-focused and does not delve into a client's past, except to identify and transform old, limiting patterns.
As your career coach, I focus on exploring your career goals, as well as identifying the obstacles getting in the way of achieving those career goals. I guide you in creating a roadmap for achieving what you desire in your career. I partner with you to design and implement actionable steps and benchmarks toward your career goals, strategies for maintaining motivation and inspiration along the way, and customized follow-through and accountability methods.
Career coaching is very action driven. I also help you celebrate and savor your successes! Because self-talk is at the core of my RESCRIPT Framework, as we work on your specific career goals, we simultaneously work on helping you eliminate negative self-talk patterns and develop a positive internal dialogue. By learning and maintaining empowering self-talk strategies, you gain the most important fuel for achieving what you desire. Through our career coaching partnership, we help you RESCRIPT your career story!
What Types of Goals Do You Help Clients Work on as a Career Coach?
As a Career Coach, I help my clients achieve a variety of different career goals. Below are a few examples.
How Does Your Career Coaching Process Work?
Can You Share More About Your RESCRIPT Framework?
As a Career Coach, I've developed my own framework for helping my clients quiet negative self talk and become their own best advocates while working toward their career goals.
We have two very different mental narrators who talk to us in our minds—the Inner Antagonist and the Inner Advocate.
Your Inner Antagonist is your story’s inner opposing force. It tells you that you have disorder, conflict, weaknesses, and deficits within and around you, and that you do not have what it takes to resolve any of it. Your Inner Antagonist can also lead you to act in ways that are not aligned with your values and ultimate desires.
Your Inner Advocate has your back. It’s your inner ally, supporter, encourager, and collaborative problem solver. It tells you that you’re strong and capable. It reminds you of all the resources you have within and around you. It reminds you of the wisdom you’ve gained from life experience. It tells you that you can overcome anything. To amplify our Inner Advocate, we must RESCRIPT:
If you'd like to read a bit more about my RESCRIPT Framework, I wrote this Huffington Post article about it: 8 Practices to Re-Script Your Self-Story.
What is Your Role as My Career Coach?
What is My Role as a Career Coaching Client?
As a career coaching client, I ask you to:
Why Should I Work with You as my Career Coach, Dr. Colleen?
Back in 1997, my graduate school advisor told me about an internship opportunity at the university Career Services Office. At the time, I had zero interest in career coaching! Little did I know that I'd fall in love with career coaching and decide to make it a central part of my career. I just genuinely love people and want to see others happy and living their most fulfilled lives. Here's a bit about my background and experience:
Can I Hear What Other Clients' Experiences Have Been Working With You?
Absolutely! Several of my clients have been kind enough to provide reviews and recommendations that you can read:
Dr. Colleen, Do You Have Any Videos I Can Watch to Learn More About Your Work?
I do! In 2016, I was blessed to do a TEDx Talk, called Re-Scripting the Stories We Tell Ourselves and I've also been fortunate to do several TV and podcast interviews that you can watch and listen to on my Media Interviews page.
How Can I Find Out More About Your Career Coaching Packages and Pricing?
You can learn more about my different career coaching packages and pricing on my Career Coaching & Life Coaching page.
Do You Offer Other Services in Addition to Coaching?
Yes! In addition to career coaching and life coaching, I provide resume writing, speaking and training, online courses, and a mastermind group.
I Think I'd Like to Work with You, Dr. Colleen - Can We Talk Before I Decide?
We sure can! In fact, I offer a FREE 20-Minute Discovery Session where we can get acquainted, discuss your career coaching needs, and I can answer any questions you may have. Completing the form below will help us get started!
Career coaching is a transformational experience. And, as we know, big changes can be a bit scary. So, when considering hiring a career coach, we usually have a lot of questions. Let's see if we can answer these questions for you to help you determine if career coaching is a good fit for you!
What is a Career Coach / What's the Difference Between Career Coaching and Counseling?
In addition to being a Certified Career Coach and Certified Life Coach, I'm a Licensed Professional Counselor, and for many years I provided counseling services. Today, I no longer provide counseling, I provide career coaching and life coaching. You might be wondering--how is coaching different from counseling?
Counseling (also referred to as therapy) involves diagnosing psychological dysfunction and helping clients manage deeper level clinical disorders and personality disorders. Counseling often explores a client's past and utilizes insights gained to resolve psychological and emotional traumas. Gaining insight is often a core focus of counseling.
Career Coaching involves helping clients who are feeling stuck in achieving their goals to get unstuck. Career Coaching is present and future-focused and does not delve into a client's past, except to identify and transform old, limiting patterns.
As your career coach, I focus on exploring your career goals, as well as identifying the obstacles getting in the way of achieving those career goals. I guide you in creating a roadmap for achieving what you desire in your career. I partner with you to design and implement actionable steps and benchmarks toward your career goals, strategies for maintaining motivation and inspiration along the way, and customized follow-through and accountability methods.
Career coaching is very action driven. I also help you celebrate and savor your successes! Because self-talk is at the core of my RESCRIPT Framework, as we work on your specific career goals, we simultaneously work on helping you eliminate negative self-talk patterns and develop a positive internal dialogue. By learning and maintaining empowering self-talk strategies, you gain the most important fuel for achieving what you desire. Through our career coaching partnership, we help you RESCRIPT your career story!
What Types of Goals Do You Help Clients Work on as a Career Coach?
As a Career Coach, I help my clients achieve a variety of different career goals. Below are a few examples.
- Discovering your strengths, passions, and purpose
- Building your career around your strengths, passions, and purpose
- Turning a passion into a business/entrepreneurship
- Amplifying the success of an existing business
- Feeling more motivated and engaged at work
- Developing steps/strategies to achieve specific work project goals
- Creating work-life balance/well-being
- Diminishing work-related stress and anxiety
- Making major career decisions
- Navigating career changes / re-careering
- Devising strategies for best showcasing your strengths and achievements on your resume and online
- Job search methods, interviewing strategies, and mock interviewing
- Career advancement and leadership strategies
- Managing challenging career transitions or layoffs
- Improving office communication
- Boosting efficiency, productivity, and performance
- Addressing and managing office conflicts
How Does Your Career Coaching Process Work?
- Step 1 - ACQUAINT: We schedule a FREE 20-minute Discovery Session to get acquainted, discuss your career coaching needs, and answer any questions you may have.
- Step 2 - ASSESS: We'll assess your level of career and life satisfaction, as well as evaluate your unique self-talk patterns.
- Step 3 - AIM: We'll have an in-depth discussion of your assessment results and begin setting specific short- and long-term goals based on your assessments and what we discover during our discussion so we know what destinations we are aiming for.
- Step 4 - ACTION: We'll jump right in with "In-Between Session Actions" (AKA - homework ;-) customized to your needs to begin moving you into action toward your career goals.
- Step 5 - ACHIEVE, ADDRESS, & APPRECIATE: We'll focus our sessions on reviewing your career goal achievement progress, discussing and addressing any negative self-talk that is getting in your way, positively tackling any new challenges and opportunities that arise, and CELEBRATING AND APPRECIATING YOUR SUCCESSES - the small ones along the way and big ones following your hard work!
Can You Share More About Your RESCRIPT Framework?
As a Career Coach, I've developed my own framework for helping my clients quiet negative self talk and become their own best advocates while working toward their career goals.
We have two very different mental narrators who talk to us in our minds—the Inner Antagonist and the Inner Advocate.
Your Inner Antagonist is your story’s inner opposing force. It tells you that you have disorder, conflict, weaknesses, and deficits within and around you, and that you do not have what it takes to resolve any of it. Your Inner Antagonist can also lead you to act in ways that are not aligned with your values and ultimate desires.
Your Inner Advocate has your back. It’s your inner ally, supporter, encourager, and collaborative problem solver. It tells you that you’re strong and capable. It reminds you of all the resources you have within and around you. It reminds you of the wisdom you’ve gained from life experience. It tells you that you can overcome anything. To amplify our Inner Advocate, we must RESCRIPT:
- R - Release Rumination
- E - Engage Growth Goals
- S - Seek Strengths
- C - Challenge Catastrophizing
- R - Restrict Regret
- I - Invite Imperfection
- P - Pursue Passion & Purpose
- T - Think Thankfully
If you'd like to read a bit more about my RESCRIPT Framework, I wrote this Huffington Post article about it: 8 Practices to Re-Script Your Self-Story.
What is Your Role as My Career Coach?
- I'm your co-strategizer: Together, we come up with ideas and strategies to help you quiet your Inner Antagonist, amplify your Inner Advocate, set and take action toward your career goals, achieve your career dreams, and enhance your career satisfaction. I have developed over 100 exercises and worksheets to help you on your journey (no, you don't have to use ALL of them, just the ones that resonate with you!).
- I'm your accountability partner: I help you remain motivated, engaged, and on track toward achieving your short- and long-term career goals!
- I'm your External Advocate and champion: I help you see your strengths, accomplishments, passions, and purpose so you can live your fullest, limitless life at work and beyond. I help encourage, empower, and motivate you, and I celebrate you and all of the steps you take towards positively changing your career.
What is My Role as a Career Coaching Client?
As a career coaching client, I ask you to:
- Allow yourself to dream and believe in positive career change - You CAN and WILL achieve your career goals!
- Allow yourself to be a priority in your life - Put yourself on your list - HIGH on your list!
- Do the work - Career coaching requires time and effort. You are worth all of it! TOGETHER, we can achieve your career dreams.
Why Should I Work with You as my Career Coach, Dr. Colleen?
Back in 1997, my graduate school advisor told me about an internship opportunity at the university Career Services Office. At the time, I had zero interest in career coaching! Little did I know that I'd fall in love with career coaching and decide to make it a central part of my career. I just genuinely love people and want to see others happy and living their most fulfilled lives. Here's a bit about my background and experience:
- Providing career coaching and life coaching, as well as conducting personal and professional development trainings for 25+ years.
- Running my career coaching and life coaching business for 15 of these years.
- I served as a departmental director, supervisor, and hiring manager for four years.
- Teaching psychology, counseling, career counseling, and leadership courses at Rutgers University for 15 years.
- Wrote an award-winning, best-selling self-help book, chapters in other self-help books, including a chapter in 101 Great Ways to Enhance Your Career, and I have my resume work featured in the Gallery of Best Resumes 5th Edition.
- Doctorate in Counseling Psychology from Rutgers University and 30+ certificates and certifications in coaching and psychology, including certifications as a Career Coach, Life Coach, Job Loss Recovery Coach, JobsOver50/Boomer Authority Career Coach, Online Job Search & Reputation Manager, Employee Performance Coach, and Résumé Writer. I also completed Rutgers University's Management Development Program, Business Supervisor Certificate, Supervisor Development Program, and Leadership Development Certificate.
- Navigated several challenges and major decisions in my own career, and ultimately followed my passions and purpose to launch and lead my own business.
- A little more about my story: Dr. Colleen's Story.
Can I Hear What Other Clients' Experiences Have Been Working With You?
Absolutely! Several of my clients have been kind enough to provide reviews and recommendations that you can read:
Dr. Colleen, Do You Have Any Videos I Can Watch to Learn More About Your Work?
I do! In 2016, I was blessed to do a TEDx Talk, called Re-Scripting the Stories We Tell Ourselves and I've also been fortunate to do several TV and podcast interviews that you can watch and listen to on my Media Interviews page.
How Can I Find Out More About Your Career Coaching Packages and Pricing?
You can learn more about my different career coaching packages and pricing on my Career Coaching & Life Coaching page.
Do You Offer Other Services in Addition to Coaching?
Yes! In addition to career coaching and life coaching, I provide resume writing, speaking and training, online courses, and a mastermind group.
I Think I'd Like to Work with You, Dr. Colleen - Can We Talk Before I Decide?
We sure can! In fact, I offer a FREE 20-Minute Discovery Session where we can get acquainted, discuss your career coaching needs, and I can answer any questions you may have. Completing the form below will help us get started!
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