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Career Change/Transition Coaching

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Are you in the middle of navigating a career transition or having career change thrust upon you e.g. relocation, layoff, burnout?

Career transition and career change can make you feel uncertain, lonely, confused, overwhelmed.

Our career coaching process helps you navigate career transition and successfully change your career by helping you acquire the knowledge, mindset and skills needed to build a career on your own terms.

Career Change Coaching – Find your next Career Opportunity & Make your Career Change Successful

As we have moved into the new world of work especially post covid19, hundreds of professionals are on the lookout for a career change. However, career change is not just about shooting off your resume to a bunch of head-hunters and then waiting for interview calls to land you that job.

The career change process, whether it is necessitated by external situations like the covid crisis or because want to voluntarily change tracks in your career, has a series of stages. And at each stage there are important questions to address. That’s where career change coaching can make the career change process far more effective and elevate your job search to a different level.

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Career change works when there is a method and structure to it! Our coaching process helps you to make quicker and more successful career changes – from finding the right role aligned to your skills and interests to getting clarity on your future career direction.

This process called the B-R-I-D-G-E process, helps you build a bridge to your next professional step:

BUILD & BROADEN (B)

By mapping your career and life story, we identify your core strengths, values, interests, skills and aspirations. And how can you broaden your skills by creating a skill stack? We help you with these and also zero in on your key transferable skills.

RE’NEW’ RELATIONSHIPS (R)

Successful career change/transition hinges a lot on cultivating new networks which position you for new kinds of opportunities. We help you identify important relationships and strategies for widening your network in a way to support your career interests, career pivots.

IDENTIFY INTERSECTING INTERESTS (I)

What do your different interests tell you about your career direction? We help you identify and pursue most relevant interests and establish own key criteria to assess them.

DISCOVER BY DOING (D)

Can you quickly test your way to a promising career direction with low risk? Yes, we build nifty pilots with you to help you take small steps with career prototypes and get real time feedback.

GROUND & GROW (G)

We work with you to help you create a strong narrative for your brand and body of work.

ENGAGE TO ENERGIZE (E)

We work on energy flows and blocks which will enable clear, continuous steps towards your career goals.

Who is Career Change/Transition Coaching for?

The average person will change careers (not just jobs) at least 4-7 times over her working life. Career Change/Transition is the NEW NORMAL.

And yet Career change or career transition often brings us face to face with many fears and assumptions which block us in our path towards greater fulfilment at work. So if you are experiencing any of these, you are a good candidate for Career Change/Career Transition coaching

Unclear direction

you don’t know what kind of work/career you want. If you sense that you want to change your career, but have too many different ideas and interests and can’t figure out which one to pursue, then you’re the right candidate for career coaching.

Sometimes, you don’t have to choose – you may be able to build a portfolio career which is a great mix of 2-3 of your top interests. At other times, working with the career change coach, you will understand how to construct pilots or career experiments, which can allow you to test your way into new careers with low amounts of risk. Career change coaching will help you strategise about volunteer opportunities, independent or freelance assignments, short term projects and also the right kind of network to help you test your career experiments.

Skills gap

you sense you need to upgrade/switch your skills to move into a career you want, but don’t know how to go about it. With the rapid changes around us, skills quickly become outdated and need to be upgraded. But you may be

wondering which kind of skills to take up and how to upskill yourself- should it be an online course, a regular course at a college/university, a project based opportunity where you learn new skills or a mix of these. Career coaching can help you to clarify your learning goals given your career aspirations and then create a learning and up skilling plan which works best for you. This will also accelerate your career change.

Social pressure

if expectations of family and friends around your work/career are weighing you down, you need help to step back and clarify what your own work aspirations are. You may also feel lost as if you don’t have a career dream which excites you

and makes you want to put your best foot forward? This could happen anytime and for a number of reasons. But whenever such a feeling overwhelms you, you would do well to consider career coaching. Through a mix of asking supportive and challenging questions, a career change coach can help you see what your real motivators are, where your energy can be best used to do work that is not just a livelihood, but is also inspiring.

Not making it past interviews

Have you been struggling with making it past the interview stage? Do you feel like you have what it takes for the jobs that you apply to but aren’t able to articulate your strengths confidently in interviews?

Career coaching can be very valuable for you– from giving your resume a facelift so it conveys your career story with more flair to giving your feedback on how you are coming across at interviews so that you can boost your presence, articulation and storytelling techniques. Moreover, coaching can give you self-awareness and you learn how to answer difficult questions like why there are gaps in your work history, why you may have been laid off etc.

Career change anxiety

if you are wracked by doubts on whether the career change you want will throw you into uncertainty or make you have to start from zero. If you feel like you’re not making progress in your career and are overcome with anxiety, career coaching

may be a good option to turn to. Maybe you need to change the direction of your career or you’re not building your career brand powerfully or you’re doing the wrong kind of work where your true strengths and skills are not getting seen. You can get to the bottom of the situation with coaching and then take action to start getting ‘unstuck’ in your career.

Coming back from a career detour/sabbatical

This is a good reason to seek out career coaching, especially if you’ve had to be away from traditional employment options for some length of time. Your career coach helps you see the experiences you’ve had

in the interim and draw out strengths and skills even from these non-traditional work experiences. For instance, if you took time off to explore entrepreneurship and it didn’t work out – you still learnt a lot during that stint and coaching can help you position this experience in the right way.

Mid-career change

A lot of people find themselves wanting to make a mid-career change, after having worked in a field for 15-20 years. Perhaps you worked in one area for a long time but now find that careers related to that area don’t excite you?

More than anything else, you may feel guilty about foregoing all the years of effort in that line of education and work and so stay stuck even though its unfulfilling.

At such a juncture, getting coached by a professional career coach will enable you to make the best use of your past experiences and education (by culling out transferable skills from these) while also finding new possibilities for you. Coaching can also help you give more concrete shape to your new interests and turn them into enjoyable work.

Unused skills & strengths

If you’re in a role where you are overusing or narrowly using only very few strengths, you need a career upgrade. If you find for instance, that 80% of your time is spent doing project coordination alone, leaving little room for you to use

your analytical thinking, resource mobilization and leadership skills, then you need to figure out a way to put them to better use.Or maybe you can sense that only some strengths and skills are being used, and you’re not sure what other skills you should potentially be highlighting. A career coach can help you identify areas of highest impact for you which utilize your signature strengths and skills. Coaches may use a mix of various assessment tools and facilitative conversations to draw out this understanding.

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What can you expect to get from Career Change/Career Transition Coaching

Each person’s career needs are unique and so are the outcomes of Career Change/ CareerTransition Coaching. A range of outcomes includes

Figuring out a new, exciting career path to pursue

Too often, when we think of career change, we choose something too close to what we are already doing, because we can’t break out of the mold and paint a different future. Career coaching helps you find inspiration using tools like vision boards, mind mapping, drawing and thoughtfully unpacking the unseen, intuitive guidance that these tools will bring forth.

Getting clarity on your career drivers

By asking open ended questions about how you want to feel through the work you want to do, where you see yourself and with what kinds of people, a career coach helps to draw out important markers for your future work self and brings it all together in the form of an energizing career vision and direction which gets you to act.

Overcoming career change fears and resistance

Ask anyone who has been through significant career change and they will tell you that there was a scary state of uncertainty that they had to overcome. All kinds of fears – the fear of failure, rejection, loss of status, worry of taking the wrong decision or making a financially unrewarding move, put you in the ‘analysis- paralysis’ mode. At this stage, working with a career coach can make all the difference between being paralyzed by your fears and hence staying in the rut, or taking small but sure steps towards the New You.

Successfully showcasing your transferable skills

When you’ve been in a particular role, industry, function for a while, it’s hard to visualize how your experiences can be relevant in a different role, function or even a different format of work. Here is where career coaching can be the clincher by enabling you to identify and put the shine on your transferable skills. Coaches are trained in mapping your career, spotlighting your significant achievements and experiences and drawing out the most important transferable skills from these, giving you a much better shot at your next opportunity.

Starting part-time/volunteer projects to pivot/transition into a new domain/function

One of the things to remember for career changers, is that new formats of work are fast emerging. So while you keep up the search for your ideal work/role, you can do a number of things which can help you get there faster. Volunteering, starting an online gig, job sharing. portfolio work are ways to get your career change process off the ground immediately. Coaching can help you quickly create a plan and get moving on this.

Getting clear on the milestones for your career change process

Working with a career coach will help you get clear on milestones such as target level of income, number of days of independent consulting work you land, progress on learning/skilling courses you have started, getting your website up and ready, connecting with people in a new domain, updating your social media profiles, reworking your household budget to carve out a portion for upskilling etc. Your coach can ensure you review your milestones and keep you on track to work towards them

Starting off your independent consulting practice in an area of expertise

If you want to work independently, you must know your area of expertise very clearly and build your brand around that. Before you move into establishing your independent practice, career coaching conversations with an expert career coach can give you an edge in being able to sharply identify and position your skills and strengths.

Finding work which closely aligns to your values, needs, life-stage

Career coaching can help you discover work which is not only a livelihood, but also energizes you and makes you feel fulfilled. A coach holds and creates a space for you to expansively see your own potential, including skills and strengths which you may have even forgotten about. She supports you in creating new possibilities, experimenting with new kinds of work/work formats, all of which can lead to more fulfilment at work.

The Future of Work which is already here will require us to keep reinventing ourselves in our work and career. According to the Guardian, Career paths are becoming fluid, with many following a zigzag rather than a straight path. The world is less predictable than it was in the industrial age, so you stay relevant by acquiring a portfolio of transferable skills

A McKinsey study says, the future of work is one with different kinds of transitions. Each kind of transition has implications on how people view and shape their work, continuously re-skill and re-invent themselves, and the impact of this on them -psychologically, physically and professionally. All of us will need to learn how to navigate multiple aspects of career transitions – professional and emotional and that’s what we are here to help you with.

Career Transition Coaching Investment

INR 10,000 + 18% GST = INR 11800

INR 9000 (incl 18% GST)

You can go ahead and book a one-time 1 hour coaching session at a special price of INR 9000 instead of INR 11800. Some of our clients have used this option to work on a specific issue such as

Getting coached to crack a big interview
Clarifying their strengths and skills and the best stories to highlight these
Articulating and working on their personal brand
Getting feedback on their resume and Linked In presence
Improving or working on a specific inter-personal behaviour /mindset such as Imposter syndrome, Delegation etc

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Testimonials

Career transition coaching: "My first interaction with Kavita happened during COVID, when I was at the crossroads of wondering what to do next after a decade of experience. I’ve interacted with coaches in the past before her, but one of the standouts with Kavita was the richness of the conversation and the clear structure she brought to the fragmented thoughts I had on my career trajectory. This structure helped me prioritize what I like and don’t like and move forward with my choices with far more clarity. It also gave me the courage to make unconventional decisions with more confidence. I also believe that an advantage that Kavita brings to the table is her own career trajectory, which makes the conversation easy and relatable. As I move forward with my career, she remains one of my primary contacts for any sort of advice I may need, and I’d recommend a conversation with her for anybody who is at an inflection point in their career."
Apoorva Mathur -
Role: Entrepreneurship in Education, Brand Strategy
I reached out to Kavita for coaching during a career break. Kavita has been a guiding force in a time where I questioned my existing patterns of being in a professional setting and was experimenting with new ways. She directed light towards my blind spots, and helped me see and articulate strengths in me that either I didn’t know how to pitch well or I wasn’t even aware that they existed. She gets to the root of issues through thoughtful questions that lead you to better clarity about what to do next, and allows answers to emerge with time through deep discussions. She takes one’s current context, their natural abilities and accumulated experiences to give sharp, practical advice. Working with her made me evaluate not just my professional life but also my personal life. She would be a great person to work with for anyone considering getting help with career thinking.
Naina Raturi -
Product Management, Partnerships & Growth
Career Transition Coaching: I reached out to Kavita with high scepticism and as an experiment that I thought would fail in all probability. I was struggling with not being able to take even moderate risks and the ‘no, can’t do. Why rock the boat’ voice was very strong. I am happy to say that just a few sessions with her were enough to uncover subconscious messages and move me towards new actions. She firmly but supportively, challenged me to see new perspectives and rearrange some of my old beliefs. Subsequent to her coaching, I enrolled into a couple of Psychology related programs and have moved on or am rather in the process of moving on from a 24 years plus MNC corporate career - crafting the next 10 years. I haven’t felt this calm and ‘looking forward’ attitude in decades. If you are in touch with Kavita, be ready to be pleasantly surprised on what you will uncover and where you will find yourself moving. You will definitely get back a dream.
Sonu Soni -
Role: Director, M&A
Career & Personal Growth Coaching : I had connected with Kavita at a time I was going through a low in my professional life. During the several weeks of my interaction, I got an opportunity to introspect and look at aspects of my life from a different prism. In particular, some areas I found helpful were: 1. The Wheel of life, 2. Making the most of the cards we are dealt, 3. Personality tests that helped me understand my personality type and the reason I was responding in a particular manner, 4. Some implementable ideas I could work on, to get out of the 'professional shell' at that time. I am thankful to her for getting the negativity out of my life then. I would recommend Kavita as a mentor for anyone looking for a guiding star for his/ her professional journey.
Saurav Anand -
Role: Product Manager, Abu Dhabi
Career Transition Coaching: "I was not sure if I needed to talk to a career change expert to navigate my career transformation journey, but I am glad that I did. Working with Kavita has been a transformative experience which helped me gain valuable insights into my aspirations, strengths, and areas for growth through a mix of self reflection exercises and tools. She is very perceptive and she provided constructive feedback that challenged me to think outside my comfort zone and consider alternative perspectives. The comprehensive support I received went beyond traditional career coaching, encompassing holistic personal development."
Shivani Yadav -
Role: Strategy & Growth
Career Transition Coaching : After taking two years of an education sabbatical I reached out to Kavita as I was trying to re-enter my career. She is a highly professional and perceptive individual. An astute listener who takes in a lot before providing a very clear perspective and direction - both of which were very important to me as I was trying to second guess myself. Definitely someone I would like to see as a coach as I navigate my career transition.
Ritika Thakur -
Role: Program Lead, Disability Inclusion, Accenture Technology
Career Transition Coaching : "As I worked through my transition, the sessions with Kavita helped in several ways - holding the space and helping me understand that many of the emotions I was feeling were par for the course, helping me reflect and look at the issue in new and different ways that went around some of my own blocks, and also opening myself to new possibilities and breaking out of old patterns of behaviour. All of this was grounded in getting to know myself better through the sessions and through specific tools that Kavita brought to the work. Within a few sessions, I had far greater clarity on the path ahead."
Shweta Anand Arora -
Role: Social Impact & Education Leader, ex-BCG
Career Transition/Change Coaching & Workshops : Kavita is a professional who naturally manages to make you feel at ease. She is empathetic while simultaneously encouraging and challenging you to find your own answers. Kavita has facilitated career development and career transition workshops for our MBA students and Executive MBA students at IIM Amritsar. The different dimensions related to one's career and how can that be intertwined with personal reflections is how she centers most of her sessions. This is extremely useful as we go into the new future of work, where each person will have a unique career path and will have to rely on self-awareness of strengths, skills and values to navigate their career. Kavita's approach is totally non-judgmental and the sessions are really focused on you and on what you want to achieve.
Dr. Vartika Dutta -
Role: Professor, IIM Amritsar
I found a very supportive coach in Kavita who listened deeply to me. Not many people do that these days. She understood where I came from, did not have any preconceived notions about anything or anyone and did not judge me for my thoughts and beliefs. She guided me on how to overcome my limitations and I followed up on that. It really helped. My mid-career transition from construction sector to consulting would have been much more challenging without this support.
Siddhartha Khandelwal -
Role: Manager, Global Operations Excellence, Cognizant
Career Change Coaching: "I highly recommend Kavyata for any mid-career professional looking/thinking about a switch in their career. Kavita brings her experience and a very empathetic approach to guide us through the process. I have had other career coaches before but I find that the coaching with Kavita has been the best so far - it’s a good mix of understanding oneself first and combining it with our aspirations. This is unique."
SATYA V -
Role: Product Manager & Design Expert, SAP
Career Change Coaching: "The coaching helped me uncover a few hidden problems which were making my career transition complicated. I was able to see clearly where my interest lies and identify what I could do to pursue those interests. I also benefited from having a clear strategy to reach out to my mentors and ask for support. I am happy to say that the coaching process enabled me to make a shift in my career change process and move to a new role within 3 months."
Mahendran S -
Role: Senior Manager, Pulse Secure