job coaching

Workplace skill development

Job coaching is personalized support helping someone find, secure, or succeed in employment.

A job coach might assist with resume writing, interview skills, workplace behavior, or task performance.

The term appears frequently in vocational rehabilitation and disability services, where coaches provide ongoing guidance to help workers adapt to job requirements: Her job coach helped her navigate the first weeks at her new position.

Opposites
support orientation

job coachingpsychotherapy

Treatment through guided conversation

mental health counseling · therapy · life coaching · rehabilitation therapy · clinical treatment

guidance vs. abandonment

job coachingsink or swim

Succeed alone or fail

trial by fire · neglect · abandonment · no support

external support vs. self-direction

job coachingself-teaching

Instructing oneself without guidance

autodidacticism · independent learning · going it alone · bootstrapping

Family

coaching

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