Difference between Career Counselling and Career Coaching

Nowadays, people are feeling bemused and stuck in their profession. Students are unable to carve out an adequate career path for themselves because of diminishing job opportunities due to COVID- 19. Numerous people lost their jobs. So, now people have fewer opportunities around and from available offers also, people have to narrow down the path based on their expertise, knowledge and specialization. The cut-throat competition, myriad of changes and lack of opportunities has created a tense environment. People are unable to find the ray of hope which can help them to find better alternatives as a working professional. Well, these questions and problems require solid responses. Now career coaching and career counselling have stepped in the game as a protagonist to support people who are facing career-related issues.

After the emergence of career counselling things became simplified for the subjects. But still, there is always a presumption that the roles of career counsellors and career coaches are similar. The majority of people still believe that they play the same duty. In reality, both of them motivate an individual to taste professional success but they embody different aspects based on your occupation.

A career counsellor is responsible to provide proper assistance or guidance to find a better job, its futuristic prospects, streams, higher studies and various industry trends. On the other hand, a career coach will assess your current status in professional fields, routine and your curiosity to move ahead in the future by excelling in different roles. 

Brief about the Career Coach

A career coach is recognized as a working professional who aims to honour their clients as specialists by working on their routine. They work on the clients routine because they believe that their client is enthusiastic, creative and productive. Career coaches’ terms can be compared with advocates terminology because they are masters who can enhance their careers. Their vision is to view consumers through to their vision. 

Here is the process on which career coaches rely the most to serve the clients.

1. They try their level best to explore and resolve all the doubts regarding the futuristic prospects of the client’s profession. 
2. Career coaches align the clients with the best careers where they can excel.
3. They motivate and ignite the fire within the clients to discover their dreams and make them true.
4. As a working professional, they encourage clients to introspect to find out the strong points and flaws.

A career coach is not a person who will run after you for everything. They are the specialists who make you run towards your goal. They will try to encourage you to try new things to be familiar with yourself. These experts provide a full-fledged blueprint that can be used as a roadmap. This blueprint generally inculcates all the necessary guidelines and recommendations which will help you to achieve long-term outcomes. After taking a few coaching sessions, you will have an open vision of your ambitions. And this will make you fall in love with your current job position. The main agenda of a career coach is to strengthen your decision-making attribute and stay driven.

Brief about Career Counselling

Career counselling is that profession where the experts guide those individuals who don’t know ins and outs of their goals. A career counsellor believes in the approach where they are informing and instructing at the same point of time by building assets to provide a job. 

1. They will assist an individual to attain temporary goals.
2. They can help you to create an exceptional resume and cover letter to demonstrate your hard and soft skills.
3. They will create a well-articulated plan and schedule based on the client’s proficiency.
4. Career counsellors gather relevant info about the current trends, changes, situation and career prospects.

Career counsellors are certified specialists who are capable enough to give direct advice. If you are confused about your career also then career counsellors can help you to select fruitful career options based on your skill sets, knowledge, interest, likings and psychographic. 

Which one is better for you?

Let us understand the services with the support of instances. If a 9^th class student wants to pursue space science in future but does not have acceptable information about this field. Then in this scenario, preferring career counselling will be the most suitable thing to do. Career counsellors will interrogate you to know your aim, goals, desired outcomes, interests, skills, strengths and flaws. After analysing they will provide a roadmap to make the process simplified for the clients.

But if you want to bring transition or change in your current position for professional growth then in this situation a career coach will support you to do self-discovery. They will make strategies after interpreting the problems that work for you as an obstacle. In last they will help you to get desired outcomes on your longstanding goals

-Hruditya Kumar