Career Coaching

Career Coaching

Career Coaching

What in the world ever happened to career coaching? With at least 14 million+ people officially out of work and millions more under-employed, it would seem like the ideal time to offer career coaching.

Yet, that same bad jobs market that stokes the potential demand for career coaching makes it difficult for people to pay for it. In many cases, it’s just impossible to for an individual to afford to pay for career coaching.

That’s one reason we offer our Free 3 Minute Career Test.

Okay, a free test doesn’t replace career coaching, but together with other interesting Blue Rectangle Career Center resources, it might assist those looking for new careers. Anything helpful and free is probably good, especially when paying for it is impossible.

Our goal is for both the entertaining career test questions and the resulting answers to be thought-provoking. A little bit of new food for thought, presented in a fun, easy, sometimes irreverent way may cause the coin to drop on your next course of action.

The test results, for example “Architect” or “Hairdresser,” link to sites where you can learn more about pursuing a new career.

But wait, here’s more about the industry of paid career coaching. Maybe you’d like to become a career coach or at least answer the question “Why is my career coach so depressed?”

According to the Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Educational, Vocational & School Counselors make up the largest number of all types of counselors:

And yet, at a time when the need for career coaching may be greatest, some of these folks, who make it their business to coach others on their careers, were paid amongst the least of all counseling specialties. What gives?

Look no further than the immutable laws of supply and demand. For increased need to translate into the kind of demand that drives up career coaching pay, the need requires an ability to pay for it. Otherwise, it’s really just an un-affordable luxury that is out of reach of many who may benefit most from it. Need without the ability to pay doesn’t drive up price.

It’s similar to the housing market where many people would benefit from buying a different house (cheaper, bigger, smaller, located differently, new or old), but they can’t qualify for home loans due tighter lending requirements. So, demand without the ability to pay isn’t really demand at all.

So, don’t look for pay in the career coaching field to increase any time soon, especially with so many free resources, like our career test, widely available. Not that our humble test will put too many in the career coaching business out of work. However, the aggregate of free resources on the web make selling any type of specialized knowledge more difficult.

You may ask yourself, “Self, how does BlueRectangle.com afford to offer a free career test and possibly help those in need of career suggestions, similar to one small slice of what career coaching is about?” You were probably just about to ask yourself that.

Good question! The answer is if you click on the suggested careers (the test results) and wind up at affiliate advertiser sites and then request more information by filling out a form, we may be paid for that affiliate advertising. I think of it like a third party tip in our jar.

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