FAQs
Here are the answers to the most frequently asked questions about the career coaching process.
What is the key to a successful career coaching experience?
Active Engagement: Finding a career that is a good fit is a very active process. It requires the full engagement of the young adult. They must spend time thinking, reflecting and researching, and then bring that information back to share in sessions with Sabrina. This is not a passive process.
Parent Communication: Parents play an important role in this process. They know their son or daughter well, and provide essential insights that can move the work forward more quickly and appropriately. With high-school aged clients, at least one parent is required to attend and observe each session. This ensures they have full visibility into the process and can better support their young adult along this journey. This ultimately leads to better outcomes. Although parent attendance is not required for clients that are in their 20’s, it may be beneficial depending on the client’s situation.
Do you identify the right career for the young adult?
Sabrina works with clients to help them discover the next best step in their career journey. In some situations, this means helping them identify a broader range of possible careers, before helping narrow them down through the process of research, information interviews and analysis. In other cases, it means helping them narrow down a broad range of often weakly established interests, before expanding the list of career directions within this narrower field.
Do you do resume writing, or help young adults find work?
No.
Aren’t guidance counsellors supposed to provide these services?
Guidance counsellors in high schools do some career counselling with teenagers, and an introduction is also provided in the “Civics and Careers” course in Grade 10. However, guidance counsellors have a wide range of other issues they must deal with, as well as a very large population of students, which limits the time they have available to assist each individual student with these important explorations and decisions. And the breadth of career planning services and facilitation they are equipped and able to provide is much narrower than what is provided by Sabrina, as she specializes exclusively in working with young adults.
