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Wired for Work Career Coaching: Tailored for Aspiring Minds

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Do you know a grade 12 student, a university student, or a young adult considering a career change? Wired for Work is career coaching designed to provide guidance as they embark on, or return to, their educational journey. Our career coaching program provides clarity and direction, helping participants carve out a path that aligns with their strengths and aspirations.

At the heart of our coaching is the Birkman Assessment. This tool is trusted by top-tier universities and the finest career counsellors. This assessment is crucial for understanding your unique career profile and setting the stage for a fulfilling professional life.

What Is the Birkman Method?

The Birkman Method offers invaluable insights into your personality, motivations, and preferred work styles by analyzing your usual behavior, underlying needs, stress behaviors, and interests. This comprehensive approach not only sheds light on how you see yourself but also on how you interact within social contexts, guiding you towards fulfilling career paths that align with your true self. The Birkman Method, is designed to unlock your potential and set you on the path to success.

In our counselling environment, participants explore:

The work they are meant to do.
How to devise a strategic plan for career success
Their ideal career industries
How they perform best at work
What energizes them and what doesn’t
Their strengths in a professional setting
The essentials for career success.

How Does it Work?

The Wired for Work package includes preliminary work, starting with the Birkman assessment, followed by a two-hour virtual session to explore the findings. Our Certified Birkman Coach will analyze your Birkman report and provide feedback on how you are uniquely Wired for Work.

Optional one-hour virtual career coaching sessions are offered, covering the following aspects and priced accordingly:

Develop a roadmap to advance in your desired career path.
Identify potential obstacles hindering your future career and strategize ways to overcome them.

Wired for Work basic package: $695
Additional sessions are priced at $160 per hour.

Q: What is Career Coaching?

A: Coaching is a relationship, built upon one-on-one sessions that allow you to delve into your current opportunities and what makes you tick.

Q: Who can benefit from career coaching?

A: Anyone who is longing for clarity in their career choice. Whether starting your career, or in the middle of a career transition, career coaching can help you navigate the many twists and turns before you.

Q: Isn’t working with a coach a little bit like admitting I am incapable of figuring this out for myself?

A: I know it can sound a bit pretentious to say you are working with a career coach – after all, coaching used to be perceived as a luxury; however, things have changed! It’s becoming increasingly more appealing to younger generations to check in with a coaching professional. Of the 18,800 workers surveyed in a recent International Coach Federation poll, 35 percent of those between 25 and 34 years old said they already had participated in a coaching relationship.
What does that mean for you? It means that coaching is comparable to working with an athletic coach, or doing anything else that helps you reach your potential. If the opportunity is there, why not take it?

Q: Who is the ideal candidate for the Wired for Work program?

High school students who want to choose a career path most suitable to their unique interests, strengths and personality
Young adults whose Gap Year didn’t help them find their future career
University or college students who still have no clue what to do after graduating
Adults who hate their jobs, and who want to reinvent themselves
Any adults who are re-entering the workforce after taking a planned or unplanned hiatus

Q: How do the Wired for Work Coaching Sessions Work?

A: Before your first coaching session, you will first need to complete a Birkman assessment/survey. Your Birkman assessment/survey will be authorized by your Birkman coach, thereby granting your Birkman coach access to your Birkman report(s). After this, your Birkman coach will send you your Birkman report prior to your first coaching session. All coaching sessions will take place virtually (Zoom). All coaching sessions will occur over a period of nine weeks, with three-week intervals between each session. Coaching sessions will occur between the client and coach only. All Birkman reports, insights, strategies, and conversations are strictly confidential between the client and the coach only.

Q: Why the Birkman and how is the Birkman different from other career assessments?

A: Along with career information from the employment personality test, Birkman also provides key reports that help you develop self-awareness as you approach a new role, including what strengths you bring to the job and what you need from others to be as successful as possible in the workplace. These insights give you a leg up to perform at your best.

Q: How Long Does Wired for Work Take?

A: Before your first individualized coaching session, you will first need to complete the Birkman assessment (45 minutes). All coaching sessions will occur over nine weeks, with three-week intervals between each. For your first coaching session, your Birkman coach will interpret your Birkman report(s), focusing on how you are Wired for Work (2 hours). Your second coaching session, with the help of your Birkman coach, you will strategize specific steps needed to move toward your preferred career (1 hour). During your third coaching session, with the help of your Birkman coach, you will confront any visible barriers standing between you and your future, and how to overcome them (1 hour).