Career Coaching
Career coach in Hoofddorp
Unsure about your next step in or around Hoofddorp? Together with a career coach you explore which options fit your experience, your ambitions and your practical situation.
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Career coaching: professional guidance for your career
What is career coaching?
A programme with us is a series of conversations with one coach, with a couple of weeks between each of them. You use that time to test what was discussed: speaking to someone who does the work you are considering, looking into a course, or putting an idea to someone inside your own organisation. We wrote about that in the career programme.
When you have spent a long time in the same organisation or working environment, it can be hard to see which parts of your experience are valuable elsewhere. Together we make clear which knowledge and skills you have built up and which directions could suit them. Matching reading is a career switch.
Career coaching in Hoofddorp
Career coaching in Hoofddorp and nearby
Our Hoofddorp location is on Opaallaan, in Beukenhorst and minutes from Schiphol. The picture is set by aviation, logistics and professional services, with international head offices clustered around them. That has one consequence rarely seen elsewhere: the language you worked in partly decides which employers are open to you. That is a question people rarely ask themselves until they start looking.
The people we speak to in and around Hoofddorp work at international organisations, in engineering and professional services, in healthcare and at or near the airport. The career questions differ accordingly: from growing further inside a large organisation to making a fresh choice after years in the same kind of work. You work with one coach who helps you sharpen that question and attach a well-founded decision to it.
About Hoofddorp
Good to know about Hoofddorp
English is no exception here
If you have mainly worked in an international environment, it can be useful to have both a Dutch and an English version of your professional profile. Which version you use depends on the role and organisation you are approaching.
Living and working diverge here
A large share of the people working at and around the airport live elsewhere in the Randstad. Their local network is often smaller than their years of service suggest, and it is spread across several towns.
Aviation moves in cycles
Ground handling, cargo, catering, maintenance and security all track flight numbers. When those drop it hits several employers at once, and the search area widens beyond the airport of its own accord.
Opaallaan, in Beukenhorst
A few minutes from Hoofddorp station, with space for the car at the door. Sessions can also run entirely on screen. If you would rather skip the trip, you join digitally.
Employers sit close together
Many organisations in this area are within a short distance of each other. A next step therefore does not automatically add travel time. We take those options into account once your direction becomes clearer.
Working hours count in the decision
If you work varying shifts, hours and income usually play a part in a next step. So we look not only at the content of other work, but also at what a change would mean for you in practice.
A step can also be an internal one
At larger employers there are often more possibilities than are visible from the inside. We explore what is open internally before looking beyond your current organisation.
What does career coaching at Care4Careers look like?
From question to direction
Your career question decides where most of the attention goes during the programme.
The five steps below give an idea of the order in which that usually happens.
Intake meeting
You explain what is going on and we see whether the coach suits you. At the Opaallaan or online, without committing to anything.
Who am I? Why do I work? What can I do?
We set out what you have done, what comes easily to you and what motivates you, without taking your job title as the starting point.
What do I want?
We explore what gives you energy, what you no longer want and which conditions come into it: hours, travel time and income. <a href="/en/kenniscentrum/loopbaanbegeleiding/gratis-loopbaantest">career test</a> serves that purpose.
Drawing up a plan of action
The direction from the conversations is set down in a plan: which roles match and what you might still need for them.
Realising the Next Step
You take the first step: a conversation inside your organisation, further development, or a look at other employers.
What you are working towards
You can explain which direction you are choosing, why it fits you and where you begin.
Career questions in and around Hoofddorp
What we help with in and around Hoofddorp
These four questions come up most often here. If yours is among them, that is where the first conversation starts.
Doubt about your direction
You notice that your work no longer fits, without it being clear what would. We start with what gave you energy over recent years and what did not, and work from there towards possible directions. Matching reading is what kind of work suits me.
Developing inside or outside your organisation
If you work at a larger or international organisation, a next step does not automatically lie elsewhere. We explore which development is possible within your current organisation and how that compares with a move outside it. This theme returns in changing jobs.
Different hours or fewer of them
Different working hours can also affect your income, for instance when you currently receive shift allowances. We include that practical side before you decide which direction to explore further.
Carrying experience from operational work
Operational work often builds skills that are equally usable in planning, quality or coordination. In the coaching we make concrete which experience you can carry with you and which next step it is relevant for. career scan serves that purpose.
When your employment ends
Whether career coaching or outplacement fits depends on your situation.
Is your employment ending and does your employer pay for guidance towards other work? Then outplacement may fit better than career coaching. We look together at which programme suits your situation.
If no departure is in play and you mainly have doubts about your direction, career coaching is the fitting programme. You then start by working out what you want to keep, what needs to change and which step belongs with that.
Who you work with
Our career coaches in Hoofddorp
You work with one coach, from the introduction until after your decision. Sessions can take place at the Opaallaan or by video, in English or in Dutch.
In the region
Career coaching throughout Noord-Holland
In the municipalities around us we work in the same way:
Care4Careers also provides outplacement in Hoofddorp and second-track reintegration in Hoofddorp. See all our locations.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about career coaching in Hoofddorp
How many sessions does a programme take?
Usually four to six, spread across a few months. Where it concerns one concrete choice, two sessions are sometimes enough. We match the number to your question and to the pace that suits you. About the work of our career coach we wrote separately.
What does it cost?
The price depends on the scope of the programme and starts at 1,000 euros excluding VAT. For every programme we name the amount on the cost of career coaching. There is no charge for the introductory conversation.
Can this be paid for by my employer?
Some employers hold a personal development, training or career budget that can be used for this. Ask your employer or HR which options apply to you.
I work mainly in Dutch. Do I need an English profile as well?
That depends on the roles and employers you want to approach. In an international working environment an English profile can be useful alongside your Dutch one, while for other roles Dutch alone is more practical. We look at what fits during the coaching.
Does it work if I live outside Hoofddorp?
Yes. This location covers Schiphol, Nieuw-Vennep, Badhoevedorp, Aalsmeer, Amstelveen and Haarlem, among others. Certainly, we call that online career coaching.
Where is Care4Careers in Hoofddorp?
Opaallaan 1180, 2132 LN Hoofddorp, in the Beukenhorst office district. Mention that you are coming and we reserve a coach who has read your question.
Which places are covered?
This area takes in Schiphol, Nieuw-Vennep, Badhoevedorp, Aalsmeer, Amstelveen and Haarlem, with Amsterdam twenty minutes off.
Does coaching work alongside shift work?
Yes. We schedule the sessions around your rota and switch to video whenever that is easier, so an early or late shift does not have to mean cancelling.
Do you have another question about career coaching? Feel free to get in touch for a no-obligation conversation.
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