Career Coaching
Career coach in Nijmegen
Years at the same institution, and after a broader view? At the Oranjesingel you map your options across a few conversations.
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Career coaching: professional guidance for your career
What is career coaching?
You meet one coach several times over, with weeks in between. In those weeks you test what was said, for instance with someone already doing the work you have in mind. At the career programme you find the order.
Specialist knowledge is hard to translate into another domain. That is not a matter of learning more but of naming: which part of your work is subject matter and which part is method.
Career coaching in Nijmegen
Career coaching in Nijmegen and nearby
You find us in Nijmegen on the Oranjesingel, just outside the centre and walkable from the station. This city rests on healthcare, education and high tech. The university medical centre, the university and the university of applied sciences are the largest employers, with a cluster of semiconductor and measurement companies alongside them. What steers a search here is rarely a lack of work but doubt about direction.
Healthcare, education and high tech carry Nijmegen, with the hospital, the university, the college and a cluster of technology firms as the large names. Many people came here to study and stayed, so a career has sometimes played out inside a single institution. The question of what exists outside it tends to come later.
About Nijmegen
Good to know about Nijmegen
Healthcare and research run into each other here
Ringing the academic hospital are research groups, laboratories and the firms that supply them. Anyone wanting to leave patient care can often keep the surroundings.
High tech out of the spotlight
Nijmegen has a cluster of semiconductor, measurement and instrument companies less known than Eindhoven's. That means less competition for vacancies than the qualification level suggests.
Arnhem twenty minutes away
Both cities draw from the same pool of employers. Including both doubles the supply without the commute growing; Germany is half an hour away.
Oranjesingel, close to the station
A ten minute walk from the station, with paid parking a short distance off. Travel is optional: the programme also runs remotely.
A specialism is an advantage and a boundary
Sitting deep in one field makes you valuable and less mobile at the same time. We look at which part of your knowledge applies more widely.
Large institutions hold many roles
Research, teaching, support and policy often sit under one roof. A move need not mean leaving the organisation.
Knowledge travels further than the city
Anyone working in research or engineering usually has contacts outside the region. They become usable once you know what to ask.
What does career coaching at Care4Careers look like?
From specialism to options
Where the emphasis lies is set by your question.
The order below is the customary run.
Intake meeting
You describe the situation and we weigh what coaching could add. At the Oranjesingel or online, at no cost.
Who am I? Why do I work? What can I do?
Your subject matter, your way of collaborating and your drivers come up, including what you do well without thinking.
What do I want?
You settle which direction you want to continue in and what weighs heavily. If that helps, a <a href="/en/kenniscentrum/loopbaanbegeleiding/gratis-loopbaantest">career test</a> follows.
Drawing up a plan of action
Fitting roles and organisations go on paper, with the missing pieces and a workable order.
Realising the Next Step
Putting it into practice comes next, with the closing conversations reserved for corrections.
What you are working towards
You can see what is possible with your knowledge and which step you are taking.
Recurring themes
What is happening in Nijmegen?
These four dominate our conversations.
From delivering to coordinating
More overview and fewer hands on the work asks different skills from the trade itself. Which ones we work out. The page what sort of work fits you covers this.
Looking outside your institution
After years in one place it is unclear what another organisation would ask. We compare that without you having to do anything yet.
Leaving research or teaching
People coming out of academia or education often underrate the reach of their skills. The page a career switch covers this.
Pressure that will not ease by itself
Sometimes the answer is a different role and sometimes a different way of working. A career scan can order it.
Reorganisation in your organisation
With a reorganisation, outplacement fits better.
Where your employer foots the bill for guidance towards other work, that is outplacement.
Where that is not the case, your own question about direction is the point of departure.
Who guides you
Career coaches at the Oranjesingel
The same person guides every stage of the programme. Meet at the Oranjesingel, walking distance from the station, or by video.
In the region
Career coaching throughout Gelderland
We work in this way in the surrounding towns as well:
Care4Careers also provides outplacement in Nijmegen and second-track reintegration in Nijmegen. See all our locations.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about career coaching in Nijmegen
What number of conversations is normal?
As a rule four to six, spread over several months. The contribution of the career coach we describe elsewhere.
What does a programme cost?
Programmes start at 1,000 euros excluding VAT and rise with the scope. On the cost of career coaching you read what it costs. The first conversation costs nothing.
Can my employer contribute?
Institutions often have a training or career budget. Ask which arrangement applies to you.
Do I need to know what I want?
No. Working that out is exactly where the programme begins.
Can it be remote?
Yes, we offer online career coaching as well.
Where is Care4Careers in Nijmegen?
Oranjesingel 24, 6511 NV Nijmegen, at the edge of the centre. Drop us a line when you plan to come; someone will be free for you.
Which towns belong to this location?
This area takes in Wijchen, Beuningen, Malden, Groesbeek, Cuijk and Elst. Arnhem is a twenty minute drive from here. If you want to look towards Germany, we cover Kleve and Emmerich.
I have worked at the same institution for years. Is that a disadvantage?
No, but it narrows the picture you have of your own options. The programme accordingly starts by widening that picture.
Do you have another question about career coaching? Feel free to get in touch for a no-obligation conversation.
Care4Careers location Nijmegen
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