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Coaching Skills for Careers Advisers
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Coaching Skills for Careers Advisers

Coaching guidance for advisers, recruiters and employers helping people make progress towards work.

Active Listening

Active listening is one of the most useful coaching skills in recruitment and careers advice, but it is often misunderstood. It is not simply being quiet while someone speaks, a...

active listening

Building Momentum

Momentum is often the difference between a candidate who looks “nearly ready” and one who is ready to contribute quickly. In recruitment and careers advice, it is easy to over-f...

building momentum

Celebrating Progress

When people are rebuilding confidence after redundancy, a career break, illness, caring responsibilities or a difficult job search, progress can be easy to miss. Recruiters, emp...

celebrating progress

Creating Accountability

Accountability is one of those qualities everyone wants, but few teams define clearly. In practice, it means more than “takes ownership”. It shows up when a person turns plans i...

creating accountability

Giving Feedback

Good feedback does more than explain a decision. It helps a candidate understand what happened, what to improve and what to do next. For recruiters, employers and careers advise...

giving feedback

Helping Someone Discover Their Strengths

Many candidates can describe what they have done, but struggle to explain what they are good at. Others underplay their strengths because they see them as “just part of the job”...

helping someone discover their strengths

Motivating Action

Some candidates can talk convincingly about goals, but still struggle to turn intent into action. For recruiters, employers and careers advisers, the real question is not whethe...

motivating action

Powerful Questions

Good recruitment conversations are not just about getting answers quickly. The best questions help candidates think more clearly, explain their decisions and show how they appro...

powerful questions

Removing Barriers

Candidates rarely fail to perform for one simple reason. More often, a mix of practical, emotional and confidence barriers affects how they present, prepare and respond in recru...

removing barriers

Supporting Confidence

Some candidates do not lack ability; they lack recent evidence that they can still do the job. Redundancy, career breaks, repeated rejection, poor interview experiences or a dif...

supporting confidence

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