What Color Is Your Parachute 2018 by Richard N. Bolles copy

A Guide to Choosing a Good Career
Coach
So, how do you go about this research toward the goal of finding
a good career coach or counselor, if you decide you need more
help than this book can give you? Well, you start by collecting
three names of career coaches or counselors in your
geographical area.
How do you find those names? Several ways:
First, you can get names from your friends: ask if any of them
have ever used a career coach or counselor. And if so, did they
like ’em? And if so, what is that coach’s or counselor’s name?
And how do you get in touch with them, so you can ask them
some questions before deciding whether you want to sign up
with them, or not?
Second, you can get some names from the aforementioned
Sampler in Appendix D (which begins on this page). See if there
are any career coaches or counselors who are near you. They
may know how you can find still other names in your
community.
Need more names? Try your telephone book’s Yellow Pages,
under such headings as: Aptitude and Employment Testing,
Career and Vocational Counseling, Personnel Consultants, and
(if you are a woman) Women’s Organizations and Services.
Once you have three names, it’s time to go do some
comparison shopping. You want to talk with all three of them
and decide which of the three (if any) you want to hook up with.
What will this initial interview cost you, with each coach or
counselor? The answer to that is easy: when first setting up an
appointment, ask. You do have the right to inquire ahead of time
how much they are going to have to charge you for the
exploratory interview.
Some—a few—will charge you nothing for the initial