Comprehensive Career & Job Coaching

At Coach 1st, we believe career coaching is about far more than securing the next role. It is about rebuilding confidence, creating clarity, and aligning work with purpose. Our coaching is empathetic, bespoke, and focused on the individual, supporting people at every stage of their career journey, particularly during periods of uncertainty, transition, or change.

Our approach is grounded in International Coaching Federation principles and shaped by over 35 years of experience in staffing, recruitment, and global business leadership. We combine reflective coaching, deep listening, and powerful questioning with practical market insight, ensuring clients receive support that is both compassionate and outcome-focused.

Career change, redundancy, and unemployment can challenge confidence and identity as much as job security. At Coach 1st, we recognise that meaningful progress happens when people feel heard, understood, and supported. Our coaching creates a safe, structured space to reflect, rebuild belief, and move forward with clarity and purpose.

Through a combination of coaching psychology and real-world employability expertise, we help individuals recognise their value, strengthen resilience, and take confident, informed action towards sustainable career outcomes.

Our Career and Job Coaching Framework

Our coaching is delivered through a five-stage framework that integrates ICF-aligned reflective coaching with practical career tools. The framework is flexible and tailored to each individual, ensuring progress is both meaningful and sustainable.

We begin by supporting clients to gain clarity and direction, exploring values, transferable strengths, motivation, and purpose. This foundation enables informed career decisions and renewed confidence.

We then focus on CV development and personal branding, helping individuals articulate their experience, achievements, and value with authenticity and credibility across applications, LinkedIn, and professional conversations.

Job search strategy follows, with a structured and proactive approach that reflects current market realities. Clients are supported to target opportunities effectively, access hidden roles, and maintain momentum and accountability throughout the process.

Interview confidence and communication are developed through preparation, reflection, and coaching. Clients learn to present their experience clearly, manage nerves, and communicate their value with confidence and presence.

Our support continues beyond securing a role, helping individuals transition successfully, embed confidence, and plan for long-term growth and sustainability.

Career Coaching for Individuals

For individuals, career coaching provides the space to pause, reflect, and regain direction. We work collaboratively to explore values, strengths, and aspirations, enabling career choices that align with who the individual is, not just what the market demands.

Using ICF coaching competencies such as active listening, powerful questioning, and accountability, clients are supported to challenge limiting beliefs, develop new perspectives, and strengthen confidence. Whether progressing within a role, changing direction, or re-entering the workforce, coaching supports individuals to take ownership of their career with clarity and purpose.

Career Transition Support

Career transitions are complex, combining emotional, practical, and professional challenges. Whether navigating redundancy, changing sectors, or returning to work after time away, our transition coaching provides structure, reassurance, and momentum.

We recognise the individual as the expert in their own life and career. Our role is to facilitate insight, challenge assumptions, and support purposeful action. Alongside reflective coaching, we provide practical employability support including achievement-focused CV development, interview preparation, and strategic job search guidance, ensuring individuals are confident and well prepared for what comes next.

Career Coaching for Organisations

For organisations, career coaching is a strategic investment in people, performance, and responsible leadership. Our coaching supports employees to explore strengths, identify career pathways, and build the confidence and capability needed to grow within the organisation.

Through one-to-one and group coaching, we create environments of trust, ownership, and engagement, strengthening both individual performance and organisational culture. We also provide ethical, human-centred outplacement support that reflects organisational values while supporting individuals with dignity and care.

Who We Support

We work with individuals facing redundancy or career transition, long-term unemployed job seekers, graduates and early-career professionals, mid-career changers and returners, and neurodiverse clients including those with ADHD. We also partner with employers and organisations seeking ethical career development and outplacement support.

Our experience spans public, private, charity, education, technology, and professional services sectors, with every engagement tailored to individual needs and goals.

Our Values in Practice

Our work is guided by empathy, wisdom, and sustainability. We believe in meeting people with respect and understanding, turning experience into insight and insight into confident action, and creating change that lasts beyond the next role or transition.

Next Steps

Wherever you are in your career journey, Coach 1st will meet you there. 

Together, we transform uncertainty into clarity, confidence, and purposeful action, supporting individuals and organisations to move forward with assurance and intent.