FAQs

I’ve never been to a Career Coach. What should I expect?

• All Career Coaches work a little differently and specialize in different aspects of career planning. There are several stages to career planning including Assessing, Verifying, Exploring & Planning. If your version of career planning has been to go straight to looking at job ads, you’ve likely skipped all of these stages. My Assessment packages offers a heavy emphasis on the first Assessment step, but I will also offer recommendations for how to take information from that first step into the next stages of career planning.

My child is in Middle School. Should I consider your College Planning Assessment package to help them with considering a future direction?

• Generally, I find that students should at least be in High School before they complete the College Planning Assessment package. Another indicator that they might be ready is that they are asking questions on their own about what they want to do when they grow up or what they want to study in college.

For the Mid-Career Planning Assessment package, what do you consider to be mid-career?

• If you are early in your career and are thinking about going to college or going back to college, you might want to consider the College Planning Assessment package. Otherwise, I consider mid-career to be anyone who has started working, is not planning to go to college and/or is not planning to retire.

What is a Retirement Planning Assessment package?

• It is NOT financial planning for retirement. It IS planning for what you want to do after you retire, whether that is an encore career, part-time work to supplement your retirement income, and/or filling your new-found time with activities that are meaningful and interesting to you.