• Are your career goals, life goals, and job search clear and focused?
  
• Do you know how to get promoted or make a career change?
• Do you need to hone your networking/informational meeting skills so you can open the door to the hidden job market everyone is talking about?
  
• Are your cover letters and résumés well written, concise, and aimed directly at your potential employer's needs?
  
• Is your Personal Brand well defined and clear?
  
• Are you ready to handle the tough competency-based interview questions employers are throwing at us these days? 
• Is your job performance as excellent as you need it to be?
• Do you know how to negotiate for what you deserve?
  
• Do you need to learn more stress-reduction, life/work balance skills?
• Are there life goals that have gone unattended?
  

• Assessing my skills, values, and interests. Who am I?
  
• What's my calling; where's my passion? Where am I going?
• Is it time for a career change or do I just need to take performance up a notch?
  
• What do I want to get out of coaching?

• My long-term goals. What's really important to me? What excites me?
  
• Intermediate goals. How am I going to achieve my long-term goals?
• Short-term goals. What do I do first and then what's after that?
• Building motivation, momentum, and confidence. How do I get unstuck and keep myself motivated and confident?

• What's my plan of attack? How am I going to go about all this?
• Creating a job/career log. How do I keep track of all the details and what to do next?
• Developing my initial pitch or elevator speech. How am I going to introduce myself?
• What’s my Personal Brand; how do I create a self-marketing plan?
• How will I get the support I need? Joining or starting a great "Success Team."
• How do I get work that's recession proof.
• How do I find work that makes me come alive and not just another job?
  

• Defining target industries, companies, and positions. Where do I want to work and what do these companies need?
• Creating my initial contact list. Who's already in my network?
• Taking courses. Can I learn more about where I'm going, update my skills and, at the same time, make myself more attractive to potential employers?

• Refining my pitch. What's my value to a potential employer? How do I market myself?
• Effectively start contacting people and meeting new folks.
• Geometrically expanding my network. Effectively using Linked IN, FaceBook, and other Social Media.
• Strategically picking meetings to attend: professional associations, alumni, and clubs.
• Uncovering the hidden job market.
• Developing and fine tuning my communication and interaction skills. Ensuring that I talk about myself in a way that improves the likelihood I'll land a job that's a great match for me.
  

• Creating a top notch PSR (problem/solution/result)-driven résumé.
• Understanding my core competencies and value.
  
• Writing targeted cover letters that create an impact.
• Creating my own Personal Brand.
  
• Creating effective and persuasive e-mail messages.
  
• Getting my foot in the door; landing an interview.

• Getting past the phone screen interview.
  
• Dealing with all tough interview questions including competency-based behavioral questions.
• Developing advanced communication and interaction skills including communicating clearly what I can do for them.
  
• Effectively interview a potential employer--do I really want to work here, maybe for years?
• Close the interview, ask for the job, what's next?
  

• What am I worth? How do I get what I deserve!
  
• What are my non-negotiables?
• What's my walkway point or best alternative?
• Becoming aware of all the negotiables--base salary, bonuses, commissions, benefits, educational assistance, relocation expenses, 401k matching, flex time, stock options, vacation/sick time, start date, and much more.
  

• Starting the new job quickly, making a good first impression.
• Building relationships/alliances within my new company.
• Coming up to speed quickly and efficiently.
• Communicate achievements clearly
  
• Maintaining my network.
• Keeping my skills current.
  

• Being entrepreneurial within my company.
• Getting recognized and promoted. Becoming a thought leader in my field.
  
• Position myself to work on exciting, crucial projects.
  
• Developing emotional intelligence skills including conflict resolution, team building, listening, change-making, flexibility, presentations, and strong leadership skills.
• Managing effectively, becoming a leader and a visionary.
• Executive coaching.
  
• Effectively dealing with difficult people.
• Making the most of my current situation.
  
• Determining when it's time to leave my company.
  

• Achieving work/life balance. Reducing stress.
  
• Life-long learning. Keeping my skills up to date.
  
• Determining and obtaining my life goals. What else is there?
• Generating personal growth.
  
• Preparing for my next job. I want more than a job; I want a career!
• Networking while I'm employed--keeping my options open!
  
• Being prepared for sudden change; developing career resilience in a down economy.
  
• Fostering a life of continual growth and improved health.
• Improving my communication skills.
  

• Managing special challenges (ESL, disabilities, single parents, introversion, etc.)
• Seeing career development as organic—is there continuity in all this?
• Creating my own good luck through “Planned Happenstance.”
• Keeping my relationships strong and thriving even during periods of unemployment, underemployment, and other unexpected bumps in the road.
• Fostering meaning and purpose in my life.

Please note that job hunting and career development expenses are often tax-deductible. Please do check with your tax professional to see if you qualify for this tax savings.