What is the difference between career and life coaching? Do career coaches know about life coaching issues?

Coaching is a broad and diverse field, with many specialty areas and niche practices. There are personal/life coaches, career coaches, small business coaches, and corporate coaches, to name a few.

Career Coaching focuses on:

• People in career transition
• People with a big career decision to make.
• People in a corporate job or considering one.
• People struggling with the decision of whether to stay in a job.
• People who would like to work with a coach familiar with the following:
  • The changing expectations of employees and employers;
  • Trends in the workplace;
  • Values and issues of loyalty and security;
  • Specific evaluation criteria for one’s company, future or career satisfaction;
  • Determining one’s readiness to strike out on her own or look for another career.
  • The stages of career transition – how to get started, interview, negotiate, obtain the best offer etc.
• Many individuals considering starting their own business may work with a career coach who also provides small business coaching, to balance their current career activities with their passion for starting a new enterprise.

• Life planning & Life vision
• Extreme self care
• Spirituality
• Relationships (Singles, couples, families, etc.)
• Health & Fitness
• Creativity
• Financial Freedom
• Organization
• Attention Deficit Disorder

• Are you doing what you most enjoy? Are you tolerating anything? Is life easy?
• Are you going to be financially independent within the next 15 years?
• Do you have what you most want?

• Am I getting my life needs met in my career?
• Does my career align with my life as a whole?