Career Coaching
Career coach in Gorinchem
Doing more than your job title says, without knowing how to carry that forward? At the Edisonweg we make it concrete.
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Career coaching: professional guidance for your career
What is career coaching?
A programme consists of a series of conversations with one coach, spread over several months. In between you test in practice what was discussed, because that is where you notice whether a direction holds. How it is built up is at the career programme.
People who were broadly deployable in the same firm for years often lack the words to explain that outside it. Those words are what we look for in the conversations.
Career coaching in Gorinchem
Career coaching in Gorinchem and nearby
Our Gorinchem location stands on Edisonweg, on the estate by the Merwede. The larger part of the jobs here sits in metalwork, shipbuilding, transport and healthcare, with a dense layer of family businesses around them. In that setting working for yourself is no exception, and after a forced departure the question regularly comes up: do you still want to be employed at all.
Metalworking, shipbuilding, transport and healthcare supply most of the work around Gorinchem, surrounded by a dense layer of family firms. In such companies a role grows with the person doing it, so your set of tasks rarely matches your title. With a career question that is the first thing we pull apart.
About Gorinchem
Good to know about Gorinchem
Many firms here are family businesses
Metal, shipbuilding, installation and trade are often in their second or third generation. That means short lines, few formal procedures and an interview that is mostly about the person.
Working for yourself is ordinary here
In engineering and construction a sizeable share of people work on their own account. That puts the step close by, but it does not make it sensible by itself.
Three directions, thirty minutes' driving each
Gorinchem sits where the A15 and A27 cross, which puts Utrecht, Den Bosch and Dordrecht each half an hour away. That gives you three labour markets at once with no question of moving house, and it weighs heavily when your trade exists at only a handful of employers.
Edisonweg, by the Merwede
You can leave the car at the door and the town centre is a couple of minutes off. The programme can also run entirely digitally.
Your role was built around you
In a small company you take on whatever is needed. That makes you valuable in place and hard to place elsewhere, as long as nobody writes it down.
Raising something goes straight to the top
The distance to the management is short, which makes a conversation easy and daunting at once. Preparation matters more here than elsewhere.
Three directions, half an hour each
Utrecht, Rotterdam and Den Bosch lie roughly equally far. Which way you go is therefore not about distance but about what you are after.
What does career coaching at Care4Careers look like?
From set of tasks to direction
Which part takes most time differs from person to person.
Below is the order we normally follow.
Intake meeting
We talk through your question and judge whether coaching answers it. At the Edisonweg or by video, at no cost.
Who am I? Why do I work? What can I do?
We break your work down into tasks and results, including the things added over the years.
What do I want?
You settle which kind of work and which setting you are after. A <a href="/en/kenniscentrum/loopbaanbegeleiding/gratis-loopbaantest">career test</a> can clarify the picture.
Drawing up a plan of action
The plan names the roles that fit, what you still lack and a pace you can hold.
Realising the Next Step
You go and do it, keeping your coach available while you are switching over.
What you are working towards
You can explain what you do and which direction connects with it.
What we discuss here
Commonly heard questions in Gorinchem
Four questions keep coming back here.
Getting your work onto paper
What you actually do is rarely recorded anywhere. We translate it into tasks and results that others recognise. A a career scan records it.
Staying, or moving to a larger organisation
More structure brings clarity and a narrower set of tasks. What you gain and lose we set out. We set that out at changing jobs.
Changing something internally
Different tasks or clearer arrangements with the same employer are a full outcome. We prepare that conversation, including what exactly you ask for.
Going independent, or not
Working for yourself is ordinary here and does not suit everyone. We weigh it against what you want in security. In more detail at what sort of work fits you.
Departure already agreed
With a termination, outplacement fits better.
Where the guidance towards other work is on your employer's account, it comes under outplacement, with its own arrangements.
If your employment continues, the conversation is about the direction you choose.
Who guides you
Career coaches at the Edisonweg
The same coach handles your question from the opening session onwards. You can leave the car by the building, and remote sessions are an option.
In the region
Career coaching throughout Zuid-Holland
You can come to us in the surrounding towns as well:
Care4Careers also provides outplacement in Gorinchem and second-track reintegration in Gorinchem. See all our locations.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about career coaching in Gorinchem
How many sessions roughly?
Four to six, several weeks apart. A separate page is available about the career coach.
What does it cost?
Reckon on at least 1,000 euros excluding VAT, more for a broader programme. All rates are on the cost of career coaching. The first conversation is free.
Can my employer contribute?
Sometimes, through a training or development budget. Ask what applies at your employer.
Can I come with a vague question?
Yes. Sharpening a vague question is the first part of the programme.
Can it be remote?
Yes, through online career coaching as well.
Where is Care4Careers in Gorinchem?
Edisonweg 30, 4207 HG Gorinchem, on the estate by the river. Tell us which moment suits and we will keep that time free.
Which towns belong here?
This area takes in Leerdam, Vianen, Sliedrecht, Hardinxveld, Meerkerk and Zaltbommel, with Utrecht, Den Bosch and Dordrecht thirty minutes away apiece. Does your search reach Breda or Nijmegen, we cover that ground too.
I do a bit of everything. How do I explain that?
By reducing your work to tasks and results rather than to a title. That is one of the first things we do together.
Do you have another question about career coaching? Feel free to get in touch for a no-obligation conversation.
Care4Careers location Gorinchem
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