CAREER COACHING

Nine out of 10 American workers don’t like their jobs. If that describes you, don’t wait until tomorrow to begin defining what you would most love to do. Take action today!

You have skills and abilities. You are good at something and may even excel at it. But do you truly enjoy it? Is it your passion? Does it use your gifts? Stop focusing on what you are capable of. Instead focus on unleashing your innate gifts into meaningful work.

Most people fail to understand that our greatest power comes from doing what we love and our deepest unhappiness manifest from denying our passions. Don't wait until tomorrow to begin defining and landing your dream job. Take the first step and begin doing what you truly love to do based on the innate gifts that naturally define who you are. Take action today.

Learn more about:

• How Career Coaching Helps You
• The Dream Job Coaching Process
• The Benefits of Dream Job Coaching
• Seven-Step Dream Job Process
• Benefits of Land Your Dream Job Book
• Your Readiness to Land Your Dream Job
• Coaching Services from the Dream Job Coach
• Contacting the Dream Job Coach
• Client Testimonials

Taking a Briggs-Meyers test that spit out a number of job titles that I might be suited for was not particularly useful to me. I am much more interested in the dream job process. One that involves probing, thoughtful discourse and questioning which helps me uncover gifts that I may not realize I possess and desires and aspirations that I may not be aware of.

Career Coaching Helps You

• Change your profession and make a transition
• Re-enter the work force
• Discover your vocational passion
• Improve your current job
• Begin a new vocation
• Create a healthy balance between work and life
• Overcome burnout
• Advance within your profession
• Relocate or transfer
• Move up the corporate ladder
• Manage being downsized or laid off
• Get un-trapped in your current job
• Manage office politics, back stabbing, and a difficult co-worker or boss.

The Dream Job Coaching Process

The coaching process provides a unique 7-Step Dream Job Process which combines theories and practices from the fields of business management, leadership development, change management, career development, and professional coaching. The process is unlike traditional job search paradigms in that it works from the inside out and focuses on the whole person instead of just assigning a random job title. Fulfillment is the main focus of this process. Finding or creating a job that will allow each person the maximum level of fulfillment is the goal. The process has been used with great success to guide clients from the fields of law, business, high-tech, finance, consulting, medicine, education, and the arts into a fulfilling vocation.

The Dream Job Coaching process focuses on the client taking action and increasing self-awareness so that immediate and transformative results will occur. The key to getting exactly what you want from the coaching process is to stay true to what you learn and discover during each session. You will be gaining new and fresh perspective, powerful solutions, valuable resources, helpful feedback and advice, appropriate structure, and unlimited support. When you apply and practice what you learn in each coaching session and through email support, you will gain quick and surprising results.

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Benefits of Dream Job Coaching

You spend one-third of your life at work, so you deserve to feel fulfilled by it. The coaching process focuses first and foremost on fulfillment, helping you find the perfect job that aligns with your passions and natural talents. Your talents should be utilized to their fullest, and not wasted. Our greatest power comes from doing what we love while our deepest unhappiness occurs when we deny our passions. When you do what you love, you will achieve more in less time, get bigger and better results, and feel excited about going to work every day.

Dream Job Coaching will help you:

• Land a dream job by turning innate gifts and passions into ideal work.
• Create deeper meaning in your life.
• Find balance between work and home.
• Break-out of pre-conceived ideas of what you can't do and imagine what you can.
• Leverage your most fulfilling experiences and translate them into work opportunities.
• Identify the barriers that block your innate gifts/talents.
• Find fulfillment from your current work.
• Be acknowledged and recognized for your talents.
• Accurately assess your core needs for job satisfaction.
• Get paid well for what you enjoy doing.
• Develop the tools and support needed to find your dream job.

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Seven-Step Dream Job Process

Readers are guided through a seven-step action-oriented process that helps them define and land work that aligns with their natural gifts and passions. With specific exercises, tools, and methods, readers gain clarity about fulfilled work and acquire the necessary tools to reveal the unique talents typically hidden under layers of doubts, "shoulds," and self-imposed limitations.

While this Seven-Step Dream Job Process focuses specifically on your career life, fulfillment will spill over to other parts of your life, as well. The Dream Job Process will guide you to discover standards of excellence that you can apply in all aspects of your life. Even though the title of this process includes the word "job," the Seven-Step Dream Job Process is about pursuing a life of meaning. The message behind this process is that it's more than a job; it's a way of life! As you move into a job that reflects your intentions, innermost desires, values, and passions, your life will become aligned with your true self.

STEP 1: Establish Your Foundation

The first step in the Seven-Step Dream Job Process is vital for success.

It helps you to create a strong personal foundation that allows you to come from a place of clarity and strength as you begin to define your dream job.

STEP 2: Break Through Barriers

This second step shows you how to identify personal barriers that have kept you from achieving your dreams. Once you can clearly identify a barrier, you learn how to formulate methods to overcome and put them in perspective. You will gain clarity about what you want from life and learn to shift from a place of shoulds to acting on your wants and doing what you love.

STEP 3: Imagine New Possibilities

In step three you utilize your imagination to conjure up images of what is truly possible. Imagination is a tool to go beyond your status quo and become clear on what you want. You will be amazed at how many dreams manifest themselves once you tap into what is possible.

STEP 4: Unleash Your Innate Gifts

In step four you recall different times in your life when you have been fulfilled. From this place of fulfillment, you identify your innate gifts that directly lead to a place of satisfaction. This step is particularly helpful in defining what you love to do and applying those insights to the creation of your dream job.

STEP 5: Define Your Dream

In step five you create your personal dream job. A specific action-step process helps you gain clarity about the activities to which you are most drawn. You will have identified your core values, clarified common themes in your life, and brought all of these together to declare your dream job.

STEP 6: Formulate Your Strategy

In step six you formulate the approach, strategy, and schedule needed to reach your dreams. As you define your plan, you begin turning it into action steps. This step helps you become clear on the daily and weekly routine needed to bring your strategy into a realized dream.

STEP 7: Land Your Dream Job

In step seven you declare your commitment, dedication, and inspiration toward landing your dream job. Once this declaration is made, you are guided through a handful of activities that will move you toward and help you to land your dream job.

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Benefits of Land Your Dream Job Book

• This book has a seven-step process that provides a defined and structured approach to landing your dream job.
• Each section of this book provides readers tremendous support in identifying and landing their dream job, including new and fresh perspectives, powerful solutions, valuable resources, helpful feedback, and advice.
• Motivation blended with specific action steps are the primary focus of every book page, guiding readers step-by-step through the proven and successful Dream Job process.
• Exercises are structured to teach readers how to apply and practice what they learn so they will maintain momentum and gain immediate results.
• Self-reflection exercises, contemplation, and self-analysis reveal readers’ talents and passions in an easy, accessible manner.
• The book provides a feeling of one-on-one support, as if readers are benefiting from an actual hands-on coaching experience.
• Book length is balanced for readers to remain engaged with the progressive seven-step process without becoming discouraged.
• Two composite characters are featured throughout the book, providing strong examples and tangible support to which readers can personally relate.

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Are You Ready for Your Dream Job?

Understand that you are not alone. Others have traveled this road before you after recognizing they were ready for a change. Here are comments by clients before they started the Seven-Step Dream Job Coaching Process:

• I’m 34 years old – I am going stay close to the industry that’s made me money. It’s hard to leave that comfort zone but I know this isn’t what I’m meant to do in life. I need to decrease the control money has over my decisions and increase the value that fulfillment will have when I find something I truly love.
  
  
• After earning a masters degree in both physics and business, my vocation was still unclear to me. My first job was not fulfilling and I felt great disappointment after such a huge investment in time and money.
  
  
• I’ve worked since I was 13 and been with the same bank for 19 years. I knew within a week of joining the bank that I’d made a terrible mistake, but 13 years later I’m still here ...bitter, unproductive, unfulfilled, under-utilized and unhappy. I worried it was too late for me, that I’d wasted my life.
  
  
• I’ve always had a job and for the last 20 years my job has been my identity.
  
  
• After 10 years of working in jobs I've just sort of "fallen into," I've decided to work on choosing a career myself rather than having it choose me. I've always had a wide range of interests and focusing them has always been very difficult for me.
  
  
• I'm in a very good job, on track to be really successful in my field at a fairly young age, but I'm afraid that I'll get stuck here and wake up in another 10 years wondering why I wasted so many years doing something that didn't mean a lot to me.
  
  
• I think the main obstacle is that I’m successful in my current job. I make a good income and am very good at what I do. So leaving that behind is difficult for me, for a couple of reasons. One, I understand my current job – what’s expected, what I need to do day-to-day, how to navigate the organization to solve problems, etc. Secondly, my current job provides me significant financial security through comprehensive benefits and a competitive pay package.

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Coaching Services from the Dream Job Coach

Joel's coaching style is based on his belief that professional transformation cannot be sustained without life transformation. His holistic approach to finding the dream job has helped many individuals transform their lives as well as their profession. He will help you manifest major changes, leading to a better future of fulfillment professionally, personally, and financially.

Joel understands that the foundation to creating the best coaching relationship includes:

The coaching process also involves talking, listening, feedback, discussions, perspective, validation, teaching, communication, solutions, planning, structure, exercises, strategies, and resources.

Coaching is done primarily via telephone and email. Regular, consistent, and ongoing contact through email helps Joel's clients get the support they need and encourages them to discuss issues/problems they are experiencing.

Coaching services include:

• Three scheduled forty-minute telephone sessions per month.
• Unlimited email support on an ongoing basis Monday-Friday. Response time within 24 hours. This helps the client receive ongoing feedback, support, advice, direction, resources, and perspective throughout the week.
• A safe and confidential relationship.
• Just-in-time support via the telephone Monday-Friday for any time-sensitive professional or personal issues.
  
• Access to extensive resources, articles, and content to help with professional and personal development.
• Practical tools including exercises, strategies, feedback, discussions, listening, perspective, validation, communication, solutions, planning, structure, resources, options, and training.
• Face-to-face meetings, if necessary.

Results depend on commitment, perspective, and circumstances. Clients often report immediate and successful changes in both their vocation and personal lives within a few weeks.

To make long-term, sustainable, positive changes in behavior, it’s important for the client to make a serious investment and commitment in his/her own professional development. On average, it takes two months to define your dream job and 3-4 months to land your dream job. Most client relationships last between six to twelve months due to the time required for you to land your dream job.

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Contact the Dream Job Coach

Contact Joel Garfinkle to discuss your coaching needs at 510-339-3201 or send an email to joel@dreamjobcoaching.com.

Experience a session so you can understand the lasting impact and improved current state of your job and overall quality of life.

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Client Testimonials

Read what clients have said about Dream Job Coaching.