Career Coach Training:

Become a Career Coach

If you have your finger on the pulse of the career market and a knack for working with people to determine what they would most like to accomplish start your career coach training with the Fabjobs guide to becoming a career coach. This guide will tell you every thing you need to get started, before you invest thousands of dollars for an expensive training program.

Your goal as a career coach is not to find jobs, but to help individuals find the best career opportunities. As a career coach, you work to put yourself out of work, by finding the client a good career path on which he or she moves on without further assistance from you.

What you need to know about this business

• As a career coach, you will help others evaluate abilities, interest, talents and personalities to develop realistic career goals.
• Career coaches use interviews, counseling sessions, interest assessment techniques, and other methods to evaluate and advise individuals.
• Potential income can range between $33,000 and $275,000 plus per year.
• This is an in-home business, except when running seminars and workshops.
• With the Fabjobs guide to becoming a career coach you will learn the following and much more.
• How to set your hourly rate
• Rates for individual clients
• Charging for coaching packages
• Fees for resume writing
• Group coaching fees
• Fees for outplacement services
• Fees for training programs
• Ways to ensure you get paid
• How to invoice corporate clients (includes a sample invoice)

How to market this business

• Offer free workshops in you community and then do a press release about it.
• Prepare brochures and business cards to leave at colleges and employment offices and unemployment offices


• Create a motivational website and offer you services.
• In the fabjobs guide to becoming a career coach, learn how to implement these and other successful marketing techniques.

Home based equipment required

• Computer with word processing, database, and spreadsheet software
• High-speed Internet access with email
• Business telephone line with answering service or voice mail
• Fax machine and copier