A Career Coach's Mini-ConfessionI've worked with someone I know in my community who is looking for her next job.
These are
things I have discovered about myself, my values and my own ethics in advising someone in job search.
1. This person has had no job history that has not been menial or beneath her capabilities. She is now close to being 50 years old.
2. I counseled her for three visits as we discussed her past and future. She did not appear to "buy into" advice and information I was providing.
3. She is deeply religious and her decisions are based on being of service to others and to God. 4. She had been sexually abused as a child by a male family member.
5. She is probably going to be laid off from her current job and is negotiating with a new group in town to be a houseparent with two day and night shifts, working with women who have recently been released from incarceration.
6. My confession is this: I have had a similar type of job in my own job past and found that stress involved in guiding individuals who are still troubled and often use an authority figure to test their own emootional limits, quite a measure of my own hardiness. I did not have that job for very long.
