Book Review of “The Career Coaching Handbook” by Julia Yates

This book addresses career considerations.

Summary – The chapters of the book include:

1. What is career coaching and how can it help?

Part I: Theories of Career

2. 21^st-century notions of ‘career’
3. How people make career decisions
4. Job satisfaction: what makes us happy at work?
5. Planned career changes
6. Unplanned career changes

Part II: Career coaching approaches

7. Career decision-making difficulties: where do clients encounter problems?
8. Humanistic coaching
9. The GROW model: a framework for interventions
10. Motivational interviewing
11. Positive approaches
12. Cognitive behavior coaching
13. Transactional analysis
14. Coaching tools

Part III: Coaching into the world of work

15. The world of work
16. Job search strategies
17. CV coaching
18. Interview coaching

The Good: It has some useful insights and considerations.

The Bad: It lacks awareness of coaching and coaching ethics.

Conclusion: There are too many other options available that provide greats insights and a better awareness of what coaching really involves.