Personal career coaching offers you an opportunity to clarify your career aspirations, discuss your job search and develop an action plan to support you in pursuing your career goals.
Career coaching is a goal-oriented and personalised process in which you can address your career questions in a confidential manner with a professional career coach. A succesfull coaching process will require an active role in managing your own career.
Typically our career coaching starts with an interview (30 minutes) followed by 1-3 coaching sessions (30-60 minutes each) with a career coach, depending on the scope of the topics that are relevant to you. Between the meetings you will be given various tasks and exercises to advance your goals.
Our take on coaching
TEK's professional career coaches have academic education and an strong aspiration to continuously develop their skills. We follow actively different trends and changes in working life, job search practices and skills development, as well as the requirements for developing diverse and sustainable careers. Our solution-focused approach means that our coaching focuses on opportunities and goals, building on your strengths and previous experience.
Our coaching is strongly based on research, including theories of social learning, positive psychology, career development and decision-making. We believe that career development does not happen in a vacuum - it is shaped by your experiences, the people you meet and the world around you. Career coaching will help you to increase your self-awareness, identify your strengths and make informed career choices. It will also strengthen your ability to adapt to the various changes in working life.
Start by reflecting
Before starting a personal career coaching process, we recommend you to get to know various tips, tools and trainings we offer online to help you reflect your career situation and the topics you would like to focus on in the personal coaching process. For example, you can use our wide range of resources:
We also offer guided online trainings, various events and webinars and a library of webinar recordings. You will find currently available trainigs and events, as well as recordings of past events, in our events calendar.
Career coaching topics can include, for example
- Skills and professional development
- Values, motivation and the meaning of work
- Well-being and personal resources
- Career development, changing jobs or roles
- Job search channels and finding hidden jobs
- Job search documents (CV, application, LinkedIn profile)
- Preparing for a job interview
- International career opportunities and job search
- Returning to work after family, medical or other leave
- Organisational changes and job search after redundancy
Personal career coaching is available for full members of TEK. Coaching is mainly offered in Finnish and in English, but you can ask for an opportunity to receive coaching in Swedish.