Career Coaching and Professional Development

Kirnan Coaching Associates (KCA) Career Coaching and Professional Development practice is designed for people of all professions and all age groups who are at any stage or level of their current career with a comprehensive approach that will help you navigate extremely challenging markets like we had during the Great Recession of 2008 as well as the much tighter labor market conditions we have experienced during the recent pandemic era and what many have referred to as the Great Labor Market Reset where open positions have continued to significantly exceed the number of job seekers creating a fundamental imbalance in labor markets.  Worker flexibility, adaptability, and resiliency have become more the norm for today’s labor market with career planning now a critical component of one’s professional development.

We specialize in helping:

  • Professionals facing job loss through termination, restructuring, or a reduction in force (RIF).
  • Current employees who are looking to transition and pivot to a new position in a different industry.
  • College graduates who are just beginning their professional careers.
  • Women seeking balance in their professional and personal lives.
  • Senior workers mulling a potential encore career in retirement.

We utilize several well-known assessments in our career coaching engagements like the Strong Interest Inventory, the Clifton Strengths Finder, the MAPP (Motivational, Appraisal, Personal, Potential) Career Assessment, as well as several key assessments we utilize through our professional affiliation with GetFive like their 7-Stories Exercise, Job Satisfiers and Dis-Satisfiers in Past Jobs, Your Current Work-Related Values, Your Ideal Working Environment, and Your Special Interests. 

Each of these assessments builds greater self-awareness of the values and qualities that are most important to you as you explore potential opportunities. The assessments enable us to take a deeper dive into your specific career and life accomplishments so we can better identify common threads and patterns and what your vision can be for your future.

Our most popular assessment tool is the KCA Wheel of Work, which like the KCA Wheel of Life, asks the client to evaluate satisfaction levels for different attributes of worklike:

  • Work/Life Balance
  • Compensation And Benefits
  • Role and Responsibilities
  • Organizational Structure
  • Purpose and Passion
  • Culture and Work Environment
  • Training and Professional Development
  • Career Progression and Success

By employing a systematic and integrative approach, we help you develop job targets in specific industries and functional areas of interest. We help you develop a personal marketing plan that utilizes all of the latest technology to assist you in your job search, including specific strategies designed to leverage your networking opportunities by enhancing your LinkedIn profile. 

We help you construct specific strategies to maximize your job search including how to design a direct contact campaign, how to be more effective in utilizing advertised job sites and job boards, and how to work more effectively with search firms. We also help you target your resume, cover letters, and influence letters to specific functional positions of interest. 

The fruits of your efforts will not only help you achieve your targeted position in a more timely and effective fashion, but it will also provide you the framework to continue to refine your professional development plan for the rest of your career.

30 Minutes Free Coaching Consultation with Dr. Kirnan

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If possible, please have your resume and LinkedIn profile readily available for me to access during our consultation.