Career Coaching
Career coach in Valkenswaard
Drifted into something once and now in doubt? At the Kerkhofstraat you examine across several conversations what you would choose yourself.
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Career coaching: professional guidance for your career
What is career coaching?
Career coaching with us is a series of conversations with the same coach, with a few weeks of room in between each time. In those weeks you check things and talk to people, because that is where it becomes clear whether a direction is sound. The set-up per stage is at the career programme.
In an area where much travels through contacts, it is all the more useful to settle first what you are after yourself. Otherwise you follow what passes rather than what suits you.
Career coaching in Valkenswaard
Career coaching in Valkenswaard and nearby
Our Valkenswaard location sits on Kerkhofstraat, in the middle of the village. Engineering, healthcare and retail carry the Kempen, with Eindhoven fifteen minutes off and the Belgian border ten. In a community this size a career tends to happen rather than be chosen, and after a forced departure that is the first thing you notice.
The Kempen leans on engineering, manufacturing and trade, with Eindhoven a quarter of an hour away. Many people here drifted into a job once and stayed for years, which can work out well but was rarely a deliberate choice. A career conversation makes that choice explicit after the fact. That conversation is about what you would choose if you could begin again.
About Valkenswaard
Good to know about Valkenswaard
Brainport reaches this far
The technology firms around Eindhoven pull suppliers and service providers all the way into the Kempen. That produces work in engineering and logistics without having to work in the city.
Work travels through acquaintances here
In a village people know where everyone works and who is looking. Pleasant while you are part of it, awkward when you want something else quietly; that calls for a different approach.
Belgium begins ten minutes away
Lommel and Hamont are round the corner and short of people in engineering and healthcare. A Belgian contract does affect your insurance and your tax papers, so we map that beforehand.
Kerkhofstraat, in the village
There is parking space in the surrounding streets and the bus from Eindhoven drops you close by. Would you rather stay home, the whole programme runs by video.
Work you drifted into is still work you built
That you ended up there by chance says nothing about what you can do by now. We start with what you genuinely learned over the years.
Acquaintances are the starting point here
Work in this area often travels through people you know. That is usable, though it limits your view to the firms they happen to work for.
Eindhoven changes what is on offer
A considerably larger labour market lies a quarter of an hour away. Whether it fits depends on what you are after, not only on the travel time.
What does career coaching at Care4Careers look like?
From chance to choice
The emphasis falls on the part where your question sits.
In broad terms the structure looks like this.
Intake meeting
A first conversation about your situation and whether coaching is the right thing here. Free of charge, at the Kerkhofstraat or online.
Who am I? Why do I work? What can I do?
We draw out what you learned in practice, including what carries no diploma or job description.
What do I want?
You name what work has to give you, in content and in conditions. A <a href="/en/kenniscentrum/loopbaanbegeleiding/gratis-loopbaantest">career test</a> can order the doubt.
Drawing up a plan of action
On paper goes which roles fit, which employers are in view and what you still need.
Realising the Next Step
You take the first steps and check along the way with your coach whether it turns out as intended.
What you are working towards
You know what you would choose yourself and which step comes first.
What we hear here
Career questions in Valkenswaard and the Kempen
Four subjects keep returning.
Knowing what your trade is worth
Years of practical experience is hard to write down and therefore invisible to a new employer. We spend time on that. A a career scan turns it into language.
Looking beyond your own circle
Through acquaintances you hear about part of the work, not all of it. We widen your view without you having to let go of your network.
Further into engineering or out of it
From production into work preparation, or towards something entirely different: both can be examined before you choose. You find more on that at changing jobs.
Work that stays physically heavy
Not every trade lasts until your pension. Looking at it in time leaves more options than waiting. A note on it is at what sort of work fits you.
When a dismissal is in play
A forced departure belongs with outplacement.
Where the guidance towards other work is paid for by your employer, it concerns outplacement. What applies to you we check together.
If you simply stay employed, the conversation is about the direction you want.
Who guides you
Career coaches at the Kerkhofstraat
The same coach walks the whole programme with you. You meet at the Kerkhofstraat or by video, outside office hours as well.
In the region
Career coaching throughout Noord-Brabant
You are welcome in the surrounding municipalities as well:
Care4Careers also provides outplacement in Valkenswaard and second-track reintegration in Valkenswaard. See all our locations.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about career coaching in Valkenswaard
How many appointments are needed?
Generally four to six, spread over several months. About the work of the career coach you read separately.
What are the costs?
From 1,000 euros excluding VAT; the scope determines the rest. What you pay is set out at the cost of career coaching. The introductory conversation is free.
Can my employer reimburse this?
It happens, for instance through the collective agreement or a training budget. Enquire what applies to you.
Is coaching for me if I do skilled manual work?
Yes. With practical trades in particular, the conversation often shows you can do more than the paperwork says.
Can it fit a full working week?
Yes. Yes, through online career coaching it works anywhere.
Where is Care4Careers in Valkenswaard?
Kerkhofstraat 21, 5554 HG Valkenswaard, in the centre. Report your arrival and room will be made for you.
Which towns belong here?
Waalre, Bergeijk, Leende, Dommelen, Veldhoven and Eindhoven are included, and looking on the Belgian side brings in Lommel and Hamont. Does your search reach Weert or Helmond, we cover that ground too.
Can I come without a concrete complaint?
Yes. Many people come because the work is good enough but no longer right, and that is a valid reason to take time for it.
Do you have another question about career coaching? Feel free to get in touch for a no-obligation conversation.
Care4Careers location Valkenswaard
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