CAREER ADVISING vs. EXECUTIVE COACHING

CMS is a professional Career Coaching organization. We use a proprietary process called “The CMS Career-X Model” which combines Professional Career Advising with Executive Coaching to help executives find the proper Career Position for this time in their life. I get a lot of inquiries about this statement, so today I want to explain each of the two aspects of Career Coaching.

Career Advising is like the tool box –

  • We give you the tools to improve your career (i.e. how to write a great resume or cover letter. What to say. . . Etc.)
  • Focuses on OUTCOMES and DELIVERABLES — i.e. Resume Writing, Career Information Exploration

Tools used in Career Advising –

  • Resume writing skills
  • Interviewing skills
  • Self-branding and self-marketing skills
  • The career process
  • Research techniques related to specific industry, company or position


Executive Coaching is more introspective and therapeutic –

  • Coaching helps you look at your personality traits, your strengths, etc. to examine where you are heading (like examining your life, a bit like counseling, etc.)
  • Coaching is more focused on the PROCESS — determining “who am I?” and “how do I fit in with the world of work?”

Tools used in Executive Coaching –

  • Personality Inventories
  • 360 evaluation
  • Values clarification exercises
  • Career self-efficacy tools
  • Assessment tools
  • Individual Coaching (using a modified “Co-Active Coaching” model)