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Career Coaching, Career Counseling Certification, 240+ Tools
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Career Coaching, Career Counseling Certification, 240+ Tools

Coach clients through careers: career counselling, CV writing, job search, interview coaching, workbooks and AI prompts
Last updated 10/2026
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What you'll learn

  • Take away 240+ tools: 14 downloadable tool files plus question lists, templates, procedures and checklists in the lecture presentations
  • Work with 14 tool files: career options and financial planning workbooks, interview answer bank, offer comparison and negotiation calculators
  • Use 14 ready AI prompts for vacancy analysis, mock interviews, self-presentation and job offer analysis
  • Run a coaching session with ready questions for talents, values, vision and career goals
  • Audit a client's skills and build an individual development plan and career path map
  • Guide a job search with a resume structure, cover letter template, LinkedIn checklist and job search funnel calculator
  • Prepare clients for interviews and salary negotiation with answer scripts and question banks
  • Help clients recover from burnout and plan personal finances during a career change
  • Apply emotional intelligence exercises and coaching feedback techniques in client work
  • Learn with Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy: 1,800,000+ enrollments, 170,000 students, about 200 books on Amazon

Course content

10 sections • 40 lectures • 18h 27m total length
  • Career Coaching Foundations: Readiness Test, Career Assessment (7 Tools)28:08
    • Why career coaching is in demand

    • What gets in the way of building a career

    • The benefits of career coaching

    • The dream career model

    • Client's current career assessment tool

    Tools in this lecture

    Ready to use on the slides (4)

    • Coaching readiness test
    • Career condition assessment
    • SWOT analysis
    • PESTEL analysis

    Models and methods explained (3)

    • Career development and self-marketing matrix
    • Three spheres of career
    • SMART goals
  • Quiz: Career Coaching, CV and Job Search Decisions
  • Ideal Career Path Discovery: Options Workbook, Ideal Job Worksheet (15 Tools)26:21
    • Talent identification tool

    • Dream career search questionnaire

    • Creating a dream career vision

    • Working with the client's vocation and life values

    • Tool for linking dream career with client's talents and values

    Tools in this lecture

    Files to download (1)

    • MAXIMUM career options analysis workbook

    Ready to use on the slides (10)

    • Talent discovery questions
    • Strengths and weaknesses recognition checklist
    • Talent coaching interview
    • Ideal job worksheet
    • Career transition options matrix
    • Dream employer discovery questions
    • Ten-year vision exercise
    • Values discovery procedure
    • Vocation formulation exercise
    • Vision-to-career goal questions

    Models and methods explained (4)

    • Dream job search process
    • CliftonStrengths
    • Dreamer-realist model
    • Life pyramid
  • Impostor Syndrome Coaching: Credibility Test, Role-Model Questions (4 Tools)27:09
    • What is impostor syndrome?

    • Why do people suffer from it

    • The career cube model

    • Imposter syndrome assessment tool

    • Developing a plan to deal with imposter syndrome

    Tools in this lecture

    Ready to use on the slides (4)

    • Professional credibility self-assessment
    • Career condition assessment
    • Career role-model research questions
    • Knowledge monetization pyramid

Requirements

  • No coaching experience required: every method comes with questions, a procedure or a template you can copy
  • Nothing to buy for the course itself: tool files and presentations are attached to the lectures
  • Willingness to try the exercises on yourself before using them with clients
  • Start with the first five sections, then open the specialist sections you need

Description

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

247 tools for career coaching in one course: 14 downloadable tool files, 187 ready-to-use question lists, templates, procedures, checklists and AI prompts, plus 46 models and methods.

Open a lecture, take the tool, use it in your next session with a client.

Why career advice does not work

A client comes with one sentence: I do not like my job. Advice does not help here, because the client does not yet know what they want, what they are good at and what they are worth. A career coach needs questions that open this up and a structure that leads from a vague wish to a job offer.

What changes after this course

You have a full route for a client. Questions that reveal talents, values and a picture of the future. A skills audit and a development plan. A job search with a resume, LinkedIn profile and a funnel of applications. Interview preparation and salary negotiation. And tools for the hard moments: burnout, money worries and fear of change.

What is inside: 247 tools, counted file by file

You do not have to take this number on trust. Open any lecture and read its description: every tool inside is listed there by name.

  • 14 downloadable tool files: workbooks, answer banks, planners and calculators
  • 187 ready-to-use tools inside the presentations:
  • 57 question lists and conversation scripts: talent discovery, dream employer discovery, salary negotiation, first coaching session script
  • 38 templates and sample documents: career path map, resume structure, job search funnel calculator, salary negotiation scripts
  • 33 step-by-step procedures and exercises: values discovery, vocation formulation exercise, individual development plan, wheel of life
  • 20 checklists: strengths and weaknesses recognition, resume formatting, LinkedIn profile, coach readiness
  • 15 scorecards, rubrics and scoring matrices: career condition assessment, career transition options matrix, skills balance wheel, job offer decision matrix
  • 14 ready AI prompts: vacancy analysis, self-presentation generation, STAR response generation, salary market research
  • 5 formulas and metric sets: interview self-assessment metrics, salary expectation range calculation, job search funnel metrics
  • 5 other working tools: ideal job worksheet, vacancy analysis worksheet
  • 46 models and methods explained with examples: SMART goals, CliftonStrengths strengths assessment, 360-degree feedback, ICF core competencies

Where the tools are

  • Career coaching core (5 sections, 64 tools). Coaching foundations and the ideal career, skills audit and development plans, job search, career finance and burnout, high performance.
  • Emotional intelligence for career coaches (25 tools). Reflection exercises, emotional regulation and personal vision.
  • Coaching questions and client motivation (51 tools). Coaching readiness, powerful questions, feedback and one-to-one meetings.
  • Interview coaching and career preparation (88 tools). Self-presentation, behavioral answers, difficult questions, offers and negotiation. 12 of the 14 tool files and all 14 AI prompts are here; the examples are built on HR roles.
  • Dream career and job search strategy (31 tools). Career options, burnout types and salary growth.

Who is teaching

I am Mike, the #1 HR instructor on Udemy, with 1,800,000+ course enrollments from 170,000 students, and the author of about 200 books on Amazon. I built the people system at Preply as it became a unicorn and worked at Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank across 20 years in HR. I hold PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications and represent HRCI in Eastern Europe.

I saw how people build careers from the recruiter's chair. At Alfa-Bank, from 2005 to 2008, I closed about 500 vacancies and talked with roughly 10,000 people. What interested me most was why some never worked out how much they should earn or what work they love. After my coaching training in 2011 I chose career coaching and charged 100 dollars an hour, with clients coming by recommendation. Then I started improving resumes, first for 15 dollars, then 50, then 100, and LinkedIn profiles for 200. People paid, found jobs and wrote reviews. This course holds the tools from that practice.

How to use the course

Watch the first five sections in order to see a client's full route. Then use the rest as a reference: section and lecture titles show how many tools are inside, and each lecture description lists them by name.

What is included

  • 40 lectures across 10 sections, 18.5 hours
  • 53 downloadable resources: 14 tool files and the lecture presentations
  • 247 tools across the lessons, ready to use with clients
  • A 10-question practice test, a quiz and a role play
  • Lifetime access to all materials
  • Active instructor support in the Q&A section
  • A Udemy Certificate of Completion

Where to start

Start with yourself. Open the first section, answer the talent discovery questions and do the ten-year vision exercise, then take the same tools to your first client. Enrol now and start your first lesson today.

Who this course is for:

  • Beginners who want to become a career coach or career counsellor
  • HR professionals and recruiters who advise employees and candidates on their careers
  • Coaches who want to add career coaching to their practice
  • Managers who hold career conversations with their team members
  • Professionals planning their own career change who want a structured method