How Career Coaches Help Six Figure High Performers Get To The Next Level Faster

“What are the companies that have relevant positions that would be a good fit for me? What are they looking for, and how do I find time for that research?!”

Ten minutes into our dialogue and I already liked Kim. I knew she had the self awareness, growth mindset and track record she’d need to make the right, intentional next career move for her.

As my former boss, Stephen Colbert would say she was an “it-getter.” In other words, she got it.

She’d become a UX leader at her Fortune 500 company. She enjoyed the work fine, liked her colleagues and was paid well, but she wanted more meaningful impact. She was interested in moving into work in the sustainability space, but where in the industry, what companies, she wasn’t sure.

I have been here. I spent 12 months moving through 15 countries to figure out what to do, where to live and who to love. Sometimes, when you think you’ve found something, some place or someone it’s fun, but not knowing what comes next or how what you’re doing connects to that is super frustrating. This can be especially true when it comes to work, which you spend HOURS A DAY ON.

Back to Kim. We both agreed that having clarity on her career destination was a really important step but when it came to doing that she hit me with this:

“I need to do more work to get the clarity I need on the industry, which companies, which roles I want before I can understand my career destination.”

I get this approach. Understanding every piece of your career destination is a critical method to getting clarity on what it all looks like. And figuring it all out on your own is a place where you shine. You are rewarded at work for it. That is part of what makes you a high performer.

HOWEVER, when it comes to tackling a job search in a different, more intentional way, you can take a different, more intentional approach. And more importantly, you don’t have to do it alone! Nor does it mean you have to have a million conversations with all the people to understand your place in a new industry, future or current organization.

Getting clarity on your industry, which companies, which roles and more is exactly what engaging in career coaching IS!

But hey, if I was someone with little exposure to career coaching (let alone being a coach myself), I’d have reacted the exact same way. And in a different phase of my career, it would have been perfectly fine to do so.

But now, in my peak earning years, with more responsibilities than ever and no time to fulfill them all, I don’t have the extra time and headspace to forge my own path on things like this, not when there’s out of the box solutions to invest in that more than pay for themselves.

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