Career coaches are specialists in skills such as career preparation, resume construction, negotiation, and interviewing. If you are a career coach looking to prepare yourself for media interviews like vlogs, blogs or TV/Magazine interviews, below is the list of questions that can be asked during the interview.
- How do you define the work of a career coach?
- Do you think this profession is not as easy as it sounds?
- How did your journey start?
- Can you talk about how ego can get in the way of effective coaching?
- According to you, what are the qualities that a coach needs to be successful?
- What major challenges did you face in your life?
- How did you manage those challenges?
- What is your daily routine?
- Do you wake up early or late?
- Three things without which you can’t live.
- Who is the one person whom you love the most?
- How can we identify what career would work best for us?
- Is there any change that you want to bring to this profession?
- Can you tell us some of the best tips to grow our career?
- How hard it is to survive in this field?
- Do you think anyone can become a career coach?
- According to you, what is the responsibility of a career guide?
- Which method do you prefer you convince students?
- Do you think it is tough to tackle students?
- Is there a specific type of person who is able to change compared to someone who cannot?
- People get very overwhelmed when applying for jobs, and many end up applying for a whole set of jobs. Do you think, mass applying for jobs will help one to find the perfect job?
- How do you convince their parents?
- What is the number one thing employers look for in a candidate during an interview?
- According to you, what qualities a career coach must have in them?
- What is your advice for the upcoming generation?
- What are some of the tricks to present a good resume and confident stature during an interview?
- How can one become a career coach?
- Do you agree it is an arduous task to convince students?
- How do you spend your leisure time?
- If one of my clients had two minutes with you, what questions should they ask?
- Tell me about a time when you had a task to complete with a tight deadline.
- Name three books that are your all-time favourite.
- What do people struggle most with when they come to you for interview help?
- Who is your favourite author?
- Do you see a link between managing and coaching?
- Which book would you suggest to budding career coaches?
- According to you, what kind of mindset and strategy is required for this role?
- What is the biggest challenge you foresee in this profession?
- Do you like to watch movies?
- Tell me about the most difficult project you’ve tackled.
- Which is the last movie you watched?
- What do you do when a team member drops the ball, and doesn’t complete their work?
- Who is your favourite celebrity?
- What types of people have you come across?
- Do you like to watch inspirational movies?
- What’s the most efficient and logical answer to, ‘why should we hire you?’
- How do you stay motivated?
- What role social media plays for career coaches?
- Being a successful career coach, how do you feel now?
- How many pages should a good resume have?
- Are you satisfied with your achievements or do you still want to achieve more?
- Do you remember a time when you had to face failure and learn a lesson?
- Share with us your greatest achievement.
- How do you encourage your clients?
- According to you, how important it is in today’s time to have a career coach?
- Do you think having a career coach benefits more than those who haven’t?
- Tell me about a time when you went above and beyond what was asked of you.
- How do you seek to balance work and home life?
- According to you, what is the key to success when communicating with the public?
- What’s the best answer for, ‘where do you find yourself in the next 5 years?’
- What are the new fields that students can pursue?
- Do you think an aptitude test is important before selecting a particular career?
- How do you give counselling?
- How important counselling is according to you?
- What do you advise to choose – career or passion?
- Do you think it is easy to choose between a career and passion?
- What is the most challenging aspect of keeping accurate students records?
- Share an experience in which you successfully shared a difficult piece of information.
- How do you organize, plan, and prioritize your work?
- What’s the best answer to, ‘how much do you want to get paid?’
- How do you keep yourself up to date?
- What makes interview coaching better than researching online and figuring it out yourself?
- Tell me about a time when you had to manage deadlines.
- How do you handle setting goals? Can you give me an example?
- What is the biggest obstacle to creating this kind of organization?
- How does that translate into winning teams?
- Can you tell me about a time when things didn’t work out well?
- Tell me about your client management experience.
- How have you handled uncertainty and change in the past?
- What do you do when you feel low?
- Tell us 3 things that an aspiring career coach must do.
- Your favourite place for vacation.
- After working with over 500 job seekers, I bet you’ve had a ton of great stories. Can you share some of your favorite success stories?
- Do you get enough time to spend with family?
- How do you ensure that clients are adequately prepared for job interviews?
- How would you assist a client who was uncertain about his or her chosen career path
- How do you deal with a client who was unable to handle constructive criticism?
- How do you push a client out of their comfort zone?
- Which aptitude tests do you often use?
- How would you guide someone who felt constrained by their family’s wishes?
- What would you do to assist a student who had failed important classes?
- How would you assist an established individual wishing to switch professions?
- How important listening skills are for a career coach?
- What methods do you use to evaluate and analyze students’ assessments?
- Was there any moment when you went above and beyond the call of duty?
- How do you handle an interaction with a difficult student?
- How do you develop yourself and continue to grow?
- Tell me about your greatest professional failure. How did you turn things around?
- Do you think it is easy to maintain a positive relationship with students?
- Why do you think there is so much need for career coaches these days?
- Do you think many people are choosing this profession because it looks cool?
- What is the one change you want to bring to this profession?
- Do you think this profession will escalate in the coming days?
- How much time do you spend with yourself, from your busy schedule?
- Is it okay if a person wants to change his/her career and make a fresh start?
- What advice you would like to give to the students who are still confused about what to choose?
- Tell me about a time when you solved an important problem in the workplace.
- Why have you found interview coaching to be rewarding?
- What is replacing the old approach?
- Where in a professional’s career is interview coaching most helpful?
- Any essential interviewing tips readers need to know?
- Any final interviewing advice you’d like to leave job seekers with?