Welcome to the first episode of How to Become a Career Coach.

I’m Scott Anthony Barlow and I started Happen To Your Career in 2012 because I wanted to help people make big career changes, advance their careers, learn how take control of their life and work, but most of all to help people find and do work that makes them more happy more often and uses what we call their signature strengths

Since that time, we’ve been able to help many thousands of people make changes that not only impacted their careers and their income, but helped to radically change their lives.

I haven’t done this by myself. Along the way, I’ve trained others how to be career coaches as well.

We’ve done this by creating a Professional Career coaching Training and certification program to help give people additional training and support as they got started as career coaches.

We created this podcast to showcase how you can get started too in Career Coaching or even determine if it’s right for you!

Our plan is for this to be a multi-season podcast. This first season is going to be full of experienced career coaches sharing their story and lessons.

Our goal is to help you get a realistic picture of what it’s like to be career coach and how you can get started.

As we bring these experts on, we’ll ask them questions like:

• What prompted you make the decision to become a career coach?
• What qualifies you to be a career coach?
• What qualifications do you need to become a career coach?
• How did you overcome this?
• What were the biggest tools or resources to help you get started?
• How did you know it was time to make the leap? (scared or don’t know how to get clients)
• What gave you the confidence to become a career coach?  
• How did you get your first clients?
• If you had 3 months to start your business and get into career coaching instead of the months or years it would take-- what would you do?

Let me give you a glimpse into what a day in the life of a career coach actually looks like.

Then you can see what it’s really like inside a successful coaching business during the first year I was full time as a career coach. That year we brought in $153,502 (keep in mind there are expenses in running a business so not all of this is profit). Later on I brought other coaches into the business and started doing much less of the career coaching myself.

DAY IN THE LIFE OF A FULL TIME CAREER COACH

I personally love this stuff. It’s fun for me. I’ve helped many coaches grow a practice of their own that also love it, but that doesn’t mean it’s for everyone.

It truly takes the type of person that is intuitive, enjoys having continuous conversations about careers and life. Also someone cares enough about other people to go the extra mile to help them make sure they get the results they want.

Now here’s something that’s counterintuitive!

It’s actually a good “sign” that you might be the type of person who would be successful by being a career coach if you’re a little bit scared about whether or not you can deliver the results that you would want for your clients - Great Career Coaches think about and obsess over that stuff!

Also if you are willing to go the extra mile for people even though you’re nervous about whether or not you can deliver! (Sometimes I still have that feeling to this day because I badly want the people we work with to have an amazing experience!)

People who wouldn’t make great coaches aren’t even thinking about that sort of thing!

Check out the Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Career Coach!