Coaching as a way to help jobseekers

It often happens that people who are given a golden handshake have been working in their company for many years and had never been obligated to search for anything else. They do not know the techniques or tools used to survive on the job market and they have not been to a job interview in years. Although they do not notice it at first, they need a guide, somebody who could show them the way and help reach their goal. The average time of this process tends to be 6 months, although depending on the sector and the candidate´s profile it might be extended even up to a year.

It is increasingly more common among professionals who invest in their career to try Coaching, a service of personal help to identify, target and successfully reach personal and professional objectives. Generally, the companies hire Coaches to help their talented employees ¨grow¨ in the company. The Coach uses a question as a weapon to provoke reflection on what the professional is doing and what s/he could do; where s/he is now and where s/he wants to be. The coacher is this way ¨catapulted¨ in order to break the limits that were, very often, wrongly construed in his/her own mind.

The candidates´ age might become an obstacle in finding a new opportunity, but only in specific situations, therefore we cannot let ourselves set the limits. Neither Outplacement nor Coaching will help us if we do not have faith in our own possibilities.

Coachplacement is an extraordinary mix of Coaching and Outplacement, a new way to manage the job trasition based on a programme that not only shows the job search techniques but also prepares the candidates emotionally helping them modify the behavior that limits the search.

Many candidates who find a new job fail to integrate in the new working environment, or at least do not seem very satisfied. However, an adequate integration coaching at the beginning of this period guarantees full incorporation into the new post, thus being the ultimate phase of coachplacement programme.