Employment Coach

Employment coaches typically work with individuals navigating job searches, transitions, or employment barriers—helping them develop job search skills, practice interviews, clarify career direction, and build professional confidence. The work tends to be more hands-on and directive than traditional career counseling.

Practical skill-building tends to be the core service. Resume critiques, mock interviews, LinkedIn profile optimization, networking strategy—these concrete deliverables are what clients often need alongside the emotional support of having someone in their corner during a difficult search.

People who tend to do well are action-oriented and energized by tangible progress. Unlike therapy, employment coaching tends to focus on skill and behavior rather than insight—you're trying to move clients toward employment, not just understand why they're struggling. If you enjoy seeing clients land jobs and find satisfaction in the practical work of improving their marketability and search effectiveness, employment coaching tends to be genuinely rewarding. The population you serve (veterans, returning citizens, career changers, people with disabilities) shapes the work significantly.