Career Coaching
Are you one of the nine out of 10 American workers who does not like their jobs? If so, act today to find the job of your dreams.
Learn About:
- Career Coaching Helps You
- The Dream Job Coaching Process
- Here’s How You’ll Benefit
- The Unique, Seven-Step Dream Job Process
- Land Your Dream Job Book Is an “Instruction Manual” to a Fulfilling Career
- You Are Not Alone
- Coaching Services from the Dream Job Coach
- Contact the Dream Job Coach
- Client Testimonials
Career Coaching Helps You
- Change your profession
- Re-enter the work force
- Discover your vocational passion
- Improve your current job
- Create a healthy balance between work and life
- Overcome burnout
- Advance within your profession
- Relocate or transfer
- Move up the corporate ladder
- Recover from being downsized or laid off
- Get un-trapped in your current job
- Manage office politics and a difficult co-worker or boss
The Dream Job Coaching Process
The 7-Step Dream Job Process is totally different from traditional job search programs. It works from the inside out and focuses on the whole person instead of simply assigning random job titles to match your qualifications. Finding or creating a job that will give you the maximum level of personal 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 career.
The Dream Job Coaching process focuses on the client taking action and increasing self-awareness so that immediate and powerful results will occur. The key to getting exactly what you want from the coaching process is to stay true to what you learn during each session. You will gain new and fresh perspective, powerful solutions, valuable resources, helpful feedback and advice, and unlimited support. When you apply what you learn in each coaching session and through Joel’s personal, email support, you will gain quick and amazing results.
Here’s How You’ll Benefit
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 helping you find the perfect job that aligns with your passions and natural talents. 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 your innate gifts and passions into ideal work.
- Create deeper meaning in your life.
- Find balance between work and home.
- Realize your dreams by breaking out of preconceived ideas of what you can’t do.
- Leverage your most fulfilling experiences and translate them into career opportunities.
- Identify the barriers that block your innate gifts and talents.
- Find fulfillment from your current work.
- Be recognized for your talents.
- Accurately assess what job satisfaction means to you.
- Get rewarded for what you enjoy doing.
- Develop the tools and support needed to find your dream job.
The Unique, 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 and tools, readers gain clarity about fulfilling work and acquire the necessary tools to reveal the unique talents typically hidden under layers of doubts and self-imposed limitations.
While this Seven-Step Dream Job Process focuses specifically on your career, the resulting fulfillment will spill over to other parts of your life, as well. You will discover standards of excellence that you can apply in all aspects of your life. The Seven-Step Dream Job Process is really about pursuing a life of meaning. As you move into a job that reflects your aspirations, innermost desires 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 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 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 or put them in perspective. You will gain clarity about what you want from life by shifting from the work you “should” be doing to what you love to do.
STEP 3: Imagine New Possibilities
In step three you use your imagination to conjure up images of what is truly possible. You will be amazed at how many dreams manifest themselves once you tap into what is possible.
STEP 4: Unleash Your Innate Gifts
In this step you recall different times in your life when you have been fulfilled. From this perspective, you identify your innate gifts that directly lead to satisfaction at the work place. 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. An action-step process helps you determine the activities to which you are most drawn. You will identify your core values, clarify common themes in your life, and weave all of these together to declare your dream job.
STEP 6: Formulate Your Strategy
In step six you formulate the strategy and timetable needed to reach your dreams. As you define your plan, you begin turning it into action steps. This helps you become clear on the daily and weekly routine needed to bring your strategy into a dream come true.
STEP 7: Land Your Dream Job
In step seven you declare your commitment to landing your dream job. Then you are guided through a handful of activities that will help you to land your dream job.
Land Your Dream Job Book is an “Instruction Manual” to a Fullfilling Career
- This book has a seven-step process that provides a clear, structured approach to landing your dream job.
- Each section provides readers with fresh perspectives, powerful solutions, valuable resources, and advice to help them identify and land their dream job.
- Specific action steps are the primary focus of every chapter, 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 maintain momentum and achieve immediate results.
- Self-reflection exercises reveal readers’ talents and passions in an easy, enlightening manner.
- The book provides a feeling of one-on-one support, as if readers are benefiting from an actual hands-on coaching experience.
- The content is crisp, keeping readers engaged with the progressive seven-step process without becoming discouraged.
- Two composite characters are featured throughout the book, providing strong examples to whom readers can personally relate.
You Are Not Alone
You are not alone. Others have traveled this road, recognizing they were ready for a change at work. 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 future is still unclear to me. My first job was not fulfilling and I was extremely disappointed after investing such a huge amount of time and money.”
- “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 worry it’s too late for me, that I’ve wasted my life.”
- “I’ve always had a job and for the last 20 years my job has been my identity. I’m not a person, I’m an accountant.”
- “After 10 years of working in jobs I’ve just sort of ’fallen into,’ I’ve decided to work on choosing a career rather than having it choose me. I’ve always had a wide range of interests and focusing on them has always been very difficult for me.”
- “I’m in a very good job and am on track to be really successful in my field at a fairly young age. But I’m afraid 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.”
- ”What’s holding me back 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. 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. My job also provides me significant financial security through comprehensive benefits and a competitive pay package.”
Coaching Services from the Dream Job Coach
Joel’s coaching style is based on his belief that professional transformation cannot be achieved without life transformation. His holistic approach has helped many individuals change and enhance their lives as well as their careers. He will help you manifest major changes, leading to a better future of fulfillment professionally, personally and financially.
Joel understands that the foundation for the best coaching relationship includes:
- Intuitive listening
- Coachable momentz
- Constructive feedback
- Asking thought-provoking questions
- Identifying solutions and options
- Creating practical action plans
- Anticipating obstacles that might limit the plan’s success
- Implementating the plan
- Support through follow-up
This coaching process involves talking, listening, feedback, discussions, perspective, validation, teaching, solutions, planning, structure, exercises, strategies and resources.
Coaching is done primarily via telephone and email. Regular, consistent contact through email helps Joel’s clients get the support they need and encourages them to discuss issues- and problems they are experiencing.
- Three scheduled forty-minute telephone sessions each month.
- Unlimited email support Monday-Friday. Response time is within 24 hours. This helps the client receive ongoing feedback and support throughout the week.
- A safe, professional 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, listening, perspective, validation, solutions, planning, structure, options and training.
- Face-to-face meetings, if necessary.
Results depend on commitment and circumstances. Clients often report immediate and successful changes in both their careers and personal lives within a few weeks. To make long-term, sustainable, positive changes in behavior, the client must 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.
Contact the Dream Job Coach
Become 1 of every 10 American workers who actually enjoy going to work every day. Contact Joel Garfinkle to discuss your career coaching needs at 510-339-3201 or send an email to joel@DreamJobCoaching.com.
Client Testimonials
Joel has created a systematic way to discover and find the work that fully resonates with your truest passion. He is passionate about his work, and is wholeheartedly committed to and completely enlivened by the opportunity for others to work with their own passions, talents and gifts.
Joel was on of the best investments I’ve ever made in myself and my life.
Brett Penfil
Organization Consultant
Blue Shield of California
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Our work together has been much more than expected. This holistic approach to a career search has allowed me to take this knowledge not only with me to my job, but to the rest of my life. I know you will be one of the handful of people who impact my life greatly.
Tiffany Mock
Senior Manager, Worldwide Marketing
Oracle Corporation
I would recommend Joel’s coaching to anyone who is in a rut in their job, who is looking for something more, who needs some direction in their life. Joel is an outstanding coach. I feel blessed to have been coached by Joel. He has made a difference in my life!
Cecilia Willer
Partner Business Manager
Hewlett-Packard
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Joel kept pushing me to not settle. He really challenged me to avoid the pitfalls of traditional job hunting and helped me learn how important my own inner voice is. I now have my dream job. It’s true, I actually get up in the morning and want to go to work. When I got my first pay check I couldn’t believe that they actually pay me to do this job. It’s the perfect match for my skills and passions. I love it.
Kathleen Cody
Executive Director
Foundation for Osteoporosis Research and Education
The most valuable contributions of Joel to my life has been the uncovering my passions. With the confidence I’ve gained from coaching with Joel, I am following a career path I had not thought was possible.
Joel is not the typical career counselor who has you take tests that purport to tell you who you are. He has you dig into the depths of yourself and discover who you are. He is up to date on new techniques, theories, exercises and words of wisdom. He balances structure with following spontaneous insights to allow the greatest growth possible. In our phone sessions, I’m able to express my thoughts with less inhibitions and more efficiently. Joel is spiritual, sincere, energetic, perceptive, prompt, professional and confidential.
Kimberly S. Netzloff
Controller
Mariners Point Gold Links
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As a direct result of my work with Joel, my salary went up 20%, my benefits the same, my autonomy within my organization reached unprecedented levels, and I learned how to create islands of excellence in an academic institution.
Joel’s Dream Job Coaching program has been the best thing I have ever done for myself, professionally. The most valuable contributions of his coaching has been the visceral reminder of my capacity to change the world by what I do.
Betty Wilkinson
Associate Director
The IRIS Center at the University of Maryland
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“I started working with Joel after I realized I need some guidance regarding my career transition. I was a physician looking to join the business field. After struggling for six months, I was discouraged and was no longer in the right frame of mind to be efficient and effective in my job search. Joel was able to put my situation into the right perspective and gave me the direction and motivation I needed. In a little over two months, I was networking proficiently, creating opportunities and feeling confident about myself. I was able to find the perfect job for my skill set and personality.”
Cassandra Choe, MD
Working through the Dream Job Coaching process with Joel has been one of the most valuable experiences I have ever done. During the coaching process, I gained skills that really improved the job I had at the time, was able to easily land a new job that I really wanted, with a good compensation package to boot and clearly define my dream job.
Tabitha Y. Steager
Public Relations Specialist
PDI/DreamWorks
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Through working with Joel, I was able to clearly determine what was important for me to have in my next job besides a salary. I actually turned down a very stable and secure job with SUN Microsystems to go to work for a start up with higher risks, less salary, and less benefits …My levels of stress have gone down, I’m working less and am thrilled and delighted with the work that I am doing and the contributions that my work is having/will have on the lives of thousands of people across the planet.
Michele C. Molitor
Experience Design Consultant
Global Pathways
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I was a Chief Strategy Officer at a small start-up company when I started the dream job process. I wanted to be able to articulate my strengths and passions into a dream job description and commit to obtaining my dream job. I got a job as a portfolio manager for High Net Worth individuals at a major bank which was EXACTLY the job that I arrived at in the dream job process.
Rick Robinson
Sr. Portfolio Manager
Wells Fargo
I had just been laid off, felt burnt out on working and on the type of career I’d had for 17 years. Although I had been fairly successful during my career, I didn’t feel passionate about what I was doing. I was afraid I would end up taking a job out of fear rather than passion. What Joel helped me to do was get at my authentic desire, what I wanted deep inside my heart and soul. I saw how my limiting beliefs were keeping from going for my dream job. By reframing those beliefs I was finally able to feel my real passion and know that I deserve to live that passion. After two months of working with Joel, I came to such a deep level of confidence and trust in myself I decided to create my own dream job by starting my own business. I know in my heart this business is what I was meant to do and that I will be financially successful and have a lot of fun doing it. The business idea is truly coming from an authentic desire and will utilize my gifts.
Heidi Funk
Business Owner
I am beginning to realize and understand that this process I’m going through is much more than a job search. It is really a definition of who I am, what I want in life, where I have been and where I want to go, and what I need to do to accomplish this transition both personally and professionally.
Craig Hambelton
Director of Sales
Asia Pacific Eos Corporation
Joel has a special way of helping you probe your mind and heart, leading you to the golden kernel that is your essence. With Joel’s help, I zoomed in to my true desires and talents. Working through his 7-Step Dream Job Process helped me find a consistent picture of my true self. The work we did together is already serving as a solid foundation for the career I have set out to build.
Hemant Thakkar
Founder
High-Tech Start-up Company
Very quickly, Joel was able to help me understand that my passion for work stems from engaging in work that lets me utilize my natural gifts. He therefore immediately helped me get unstuck and start my journey toward my dream job. I now have a clear direction for my career, and have gone back to school to learn the skills necessary to be a mediator.
Michelle Abrams
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My introduction to Dream Job Coaching came at a pivotal point in my life. I had made the decision to retire from a 27-year career as a department manager for the Tahoe City Public Utility District to pursue my own business. A career change, as well as leaving the relative safety of a public sector position to become self-employed, was a challenge. The Dream Job Coaching program and personal coaching helped to broaden my perspective. I was able to see many opportunities I had never before considered. I was able to clearly define my interests, recognize my strengths, and set achievable goals and action steps. The continued coaching support was a key factor developing my dream job implementation plan. The program is well organized and focused, and successfully brought me through a self discovery process that led to creating my dream job.
The Dream Job Coaching Program is in my opinion one of the best personal training programs. I highly recommend the program to people of all ages and backgrounds.
Sandra Coambs
Department Manager
Tahoe City Public Utility District
This whole process has been so beneficial not just in finding a job, but in cultivating a strong network for all life purposes. After two months of Joel’s coaching, I increased the number of contacts from barely a handful to over 40, have networked my way to key executives who have the power to hire, and am well on the way to creating a dream lifestyle.
Mark Mallah
Former FBI Agent
After working for 20 years in the investment industry, I decided to start my own company. Joel has very successfully filled the void left by my former partners, and was able to help me become a more functional leader by helping me define my dream job in the context of a well balanced lifestyle. After working with Joel, this is the most grounded I have felt in 10 years.
Nicky Faucher
Founder
Start-up Company
You helped me focus on the action steps that I need to take to make this transition successful. As usual, your ideas were insightful and thought provoking. Your success is a tribute not only to your talent, but a validation of your belief that people can achieve what they set their minds to if they take action.
Kevin S. Rosenberg
Attorney
Judge Advocate Generals Corps
My most important challenge was how I would arrange my life to gain the greatest degree of satisfaction, meaning and fulfillment… I grew by listening to and responding to the things on my mind and in my heart…Basically, I think I determined what is important and have gone after it.
On a lark, after being encouraged by Joel, I mentioned to others who worked at the hospital that it would be my dream job to run the division. To my complete surprise, I was contacted to talk about running the division. I interviewed for the job and was effectively offered it.
James L. Keene
Portfolio Manager
Bingham, Osborn & Scarborough
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After 3 months of working with Joel, I found myself really exploring the career options I had only talked about previously. After a couple more months, I got an offer for a really remarkable job in a completely new field. With Joel’s help, I identified specifically what my obstacles were. I set goals for myself and then worked closely with Joel day-to-day and week-to-week to monitor my accomplishments.
Marc Seltzer
Yoga Teacher and Lawyer
I only had the opportunity to work with Joel for a couple of hours, but that short period literally changed my life. He gave me a new perspective on salary negotiation, and solid tools that I could implement immediately - which was fortunate, because my interview was the next day. Joel offered a wealth of practical advice ranging from negotiation techniques to ways to approach the issue of flex time. He helped me to build a foundation of logical arguments and illustrative examples that clearly demonstrated my skills to prospective employers. Most importantly, because of my work with Joel I was able to approach my interview with confidence in my abilities. I eventually was offered the job at precisely the salary I had asked for - that is, that Joel had argued I should ask for. I was making only 50K with a wish to make 70K, but Joel demanded that I ask for the unbelievable amount of 94K which my employer accepted. Joel is an invaluable resource and I recommend him without reservation.
Margaret Dick
General Manager
Gentry Communications
To learn more about how Joel Garfinkle’s expert Public Inspirational Speaking can help you as an individual in your quest for your dream job or improve your group’s interactions at work or play please visit his Business Management Speaker page. The rapid changes that businesses face daily require very close management of how the dynamics of change can impact the business processes. Joel’s speaking skills and insights cut through the haze with crystal clarity when Change Management is the topic.
Coaching Clients say...
"Taking a Briggs-Meyers test that spit out a number of job titles that I might be suited for was not useful to me. I am much more interested in the dream job process. One that involves probing, thoughtful discourse and questioning which help me uncover gifts that I may not realize I possess and desires and aspirations that I may not be aware of."
Paul Levitt
Marketing Manager
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