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

and failed to keep it). You can stop seeing them at any time, if
you feel you are not getting the help you wish. The fee varies
greatly. It can range from $75 an hour on up to $350 an hour and
beyond. It often keeps pace with the fees of psychiatrists or
psychologists in that neck of the woods. Counselors in cities
tend to charge more than counselors out in the country.
That fee is for individual time with the career coach or
counselor. If you can’t afford that fee, ask whether they also run
groups. If they do, the fee will be much less. And, in one of
those delightful ironies of life, since you get a chance to listen to
problems that other job-hunters in your group are having, the
group will often give you more help than an individual session
with a counselor would have. Not always; but often. It’s always
ironic when cheaper and more helpful go hand in hand.
If the career counselor in question does offer groups, there
should (again) never be a contract. The charge should be payable
at the end of each session, and you should be able to drop out at
any time, without further cost, if you decide you are not getting
the help you want.
There are some career counselors who run free (or almost
free) job-hunting workshops through local churches,
synagogues, chambers of commerce, community colleges, adult
education programs, and the like, as their community service or
pro bono work (as it is technically called). I have had reports of
workshops from a number of places in the U.S. and Canada.
They exist in other parts of the world as well. If money is a
problem for you, in getting help with your job-hunt, ask around
to see if workshops exist in your community. Your chamber of
commerce will know, or your church or synagogue.
If Your Location Is a Problem for You:
Distance-Coaching or Telephone-Counseling
The assumption, from the beginning, was that career counseling
would always take place face-to-face. Both of you, counselor
and job-hunter, together in the same room. Just like career
counseling’s close relatives: marriage counseling, or even AA.