It is difficult to define exactly who is a good career counsellor. Because there is no universally good one that is good for everyone. Let's turn the question around: what is important to you as a career counsellor? Who can you work with? Which career counsellors are you happy to listen to?

In the case of consultants, it is an advantage if they have real professional experience behind them and have their own experience on the professional side.

Generally speaking, when a client comes to me with a problem, it soon turns out that it is not the problem they first think it is. Everyone has a blind spot on the real problem.

Let's take an example: Jani (let's call him that) sends his CV to a lot of places, sometimes he gets invited, but he doesn't get selected. He always ends up in the same situation. He runs the same rounds, over and over again. He applies for similar types of jobs, in similar companies - without success. And he stands bewildered, explaining why not this time, while growing increasingly desperate because of the constant disappointments.
What is the solution? Maybe you shouldn't look this way? Maybe there is another way "marked out" for you? With this realisation, it is also reasonable to find out why he falls into this trap again and again.

Why? Just for the sake of enjoying life, the falls are very painful after a while, the consequences are fearful (I've lived it, I know what I'm talking about).

What is needed? Courage and perseverance. To learn that everyone can make mistakes, but that it is not worth wading over the same pothole more than once.To persevere in expanding our knowledge so that we can recognise the similarities in the past in time to avoid those potholes in the first place. This is the result!

My own example can stand here as evidence, but more as a lesson.

Proof that it is possible to change, there is always another direction, you just have to recognise it - it's not easy in general.
And the lesson is that if I succeeded, You can do it too, just ask for help if you can't do it alone.

It may not be necessary to deal with realistic things that seem likely! - that is the first lesson from my story.

Having worked abroad for years in various areas of tourism, it seemed realistic to return home. Instead, I was constantly getting slapped in the face while looking for a job and then realised that this was not the direction I wanted to go in. Things changed. For this I also needed an external eye and ear at the time. He listened and advised me to test. If no one wants me in the job market, I should be self-employed in this field. It flashed in the middle of building a business, yet I don't want to do that, I need to open up in a different direction.

Then came the new or old love, HR and within that, headhunting. But the first place I chose was in HR in a multinational, I was almost only slapped. Then I found a better one and I left. Unfortunately it was not enough, the I lost my essence, I couldn't deal with people in real life, I couldn't help them directly.
I knew then that the bounty hunting is what attractsI can do to fulfil my potential, to help people. This is together all that I am, all that I want to do. I got an opportunity at a headhunting company, for a junior research job, and after 6 months I became a headhunter, hr consultant.

See how many "extra" steps I had before the headhuntby the time I find exactly what I want to do? And the progress didn't stop there (because it did).

The bounty hunting company went bust, but in the meantime the I moved up the ladder thanks to my contactsI became a headhunter and then a business developer. As HR key account manager, I worked 3:1 for them. I got a job because I was given a free hand. I could achieve my goals: I could help people.

I've been there, I've learned, and I've experienced what a career change entails. And it doesn't end here.

I outgrew the company, I no longer had a place there, and I shook myself again and I founded the Faculty of Coaching - my career consultancy business to all the HR skills I have acquired use my personal and professional experience to support jobseekers and career changers. I know both sides, I have "played both sides".

Diverter...

I'll take it further (what you said and chew on it)...

I'm shocked, I think about it for a while and that's where the good stuff comes from...

It does not print templates...

He has a sure touch on the critical points...

I said at the beginning that this is a continuous evolution. It is important for everyone, for me and for you, to keep training and learning.

NI read an awful lot, books on different subjects. Some more than once. Just a few of my favourite authors: Hawkins, Susan Forward,

I have completed - in addition to the paper-based professional training - Dale Carnegie training.

I was a founding member of the Toast Masters Club.

Good advice from a careers adviser

There's more than one way, find what works for you!

Only work with people you can easily understand yourself.

It is good to have similar ideas, similar principles.

What I do and how I do it is not the best, but it works for me. Do you have the chemistry or not? You can feel it in the first 20 minutes. Just listen to yourself!