Career Coaching Activity
This activity involved holding a career discussion with a solid citizen, Angie. This activity presents the results of the application of two career coaching discussion skills including discussion background. My career coaching discussion was with my MSR.
First, I wanted to know more about Angie and her career background. For this purpose, I asked Angie questions concerning her short- and long-term career interests In response, the client advised that following graduation from college as an anthropology major, she decided to work in a part0time job while pursuing her master's degree. She really enjoys working as a part-time teller and decided to purse different career path. She moved from part time to full time and then after working 2 years as a teller, and was promoted to MSR.
Angie stated that her next career goal would be becoming assistant branch manager.
Therefore, we discussion her planning stage as follows.
We identified areas that she needs to develop;
We discussed specific activities that must be addressed; and,
We established realistic timelines for achieving these objectives.
Based on information gathered during the preliminary discussion, I gave Angie some suggestions and recommendations to support her short-term career goal of becoming an assistant branch manager. One of the best ways for her to advance her short-term career goal is to build on her existing knowledge and skills. To help identify these, the following steps in Table 1 below were followed with the corresponding outcomes indicated.
Table 1
Strengths Analysis
Step
Analysis Outcome
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