Complete practical guide
The career coaching book that starts with three words nobody should have written
37 chapters and 68 printable worksheets on career coaching as a side hustle - what you can never promise, what you must never write, the boundaries you cross by invitation, and a confidentiality standard sized for how small sectors actually are.
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What this guide is
Career coaching is unregulated. Anybody can start tomorrow, and many do - which means the only thing between a client and harm is what the coach decided in advance. This book is about those decisions. It opens with a coach who changed 'supported the migration' to 'led the migration' on somebody else's CV, and then had to sit with the fact that they had written a sentence somebody else would have to defend in a room. Its central argument is that most of the trade sells clarity, and clarity is not progress: it feels like progress, produces excellent feedback, and changes nothing. The product is what happens between sessions - the message sent, the conversation had, the application that actually went out - which makes action completion the metric, with the uncomfortable commitments tracked separately, because a high completion rate made entirely of easy items is the same failure in a better costume. It states no employment-law rule, no data-protection threshold, no qualification requirement, and not a single claim about what an employer's screening detects, routing every one of those elsewhere and teaching the checks instead.
What you get out of it
Specifics, not promises.
- Four rules covering what actually ends these businesses - promises, writing, scope, and confidentiality
- Why 'anonymisation works in large populations, and careers do not happen in large populations'
- The clause almost no coaching agreement contains - and why its absence makes the drift arrive by request
- Why 'you're being too negative' is the worst thing you can say to somebody in a bad market
- The rebooking conversation as the most exploitable moment in the trade, and the sentence that costs you a block and produces referrals for years
- Never emailing a client's work address - because a career coach in a work inbox is evidence on somebody else's server
- Unearned income: how twelve clients can leave you four thousand pounds 'up' and entirely committed
- Why the referral lag means year one understates the business, and people quit in month ten
- 148 AI prompts with their constraints written in - and not one takes a client's name, employer, or document
Ideal for
People with real hiring, management, or sector experience who are asked for help and want to charge for it properly; coaches already practising who have felt the drift - the tidied CV, the hedged legal answer, the anonymised story that was not; and anybody about to take their first employer or outplacement contract and wondering what a sponsor is actually buying.
- Anyone starting career coaching alongside other work, and practising coaches who have tidied a CV, hedged a legal answer, or told a story they believed was anonymised.
What's inside
Format
- Digital download, delivered instantly after payment
- Formatted for letter paper — read on screen or print it
- Yours permanently, re-downloadable from your library any time
- Licensed for use in your own business
By the end you can
A reader finishes with two refusal lists written before they meet anybody, a coaching agreement containing an explicit no-writing clause and a stated confidentiality exception, a conflict register checked before acceptance, a named supervisor in place before the first client, insurance answers in writing covering both the CV claim and the legal-advice claim, crisis numbers on paper, blocks of six spread over three months with a written answer to what happens if the client gets a job in week two, a cost floor built on true hours rather than session hours, a tracked action completion rate split by comfortable and uncomfortable, an unearned-income tracker showing what would be owed if they stopped tomorrow, a seven-item never-skipped check card, and a thirty-day, ninety-day, and one-year plan.
A complete working system for career coaching alongside other work - built on four rules covering what may never be promised, what you may never write, the professional boundaries you cross by invitation, and a confidentiality standard sized for the fact that careers do not happen in large populations - with action completion treated as the actual product.
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