Where a life coach can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a life coach already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Life coaches help clients set clear objectives for their personal development and help them achieve their goals and personal vision. They provide counselling and guidance and establish progress reports in order to keep track of their clients' achievements.
Also known as life mentor, personal development counsellor, life coaches.
Technicians and associate professionals 27 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: psychic, 56%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A life coach needs 12 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- evaluate clients' progress information skills
- assist clients with personal development communication, collaboration and creativity
- coach clients communication, collaboration and creativity
- help clients make decisions during counselling sessions assisting and caring
- counsel clients communication, collaboration and creativity
- give advice on personal matters assisting and caring
- use consulting techniques communication, collaboration and creativity
- maintain customer service communication, collaboration and creativity
- maintain relationship with customers communication, collaboration and creativity
- listen actively communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a life coach does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- career guidance advisor 51% covered · difficulty 46.8
- dating service consultant 47% covered · difficulty 48.9
- medium 45% covered · difficulty 51.7
- personal stylist 37% covered · difficulty 57.7
- psychic 36% covered · difficulty 58.9
- assessor of prior learning 34% covered · difficulty 61.1
- fortune teller 34% covered · difficulty 60.7
- wedding planner 33% covered · difficulty 60.9
- astrologer 28% covered · difficulty 65.2
- personal shopper 28% covered · difficulty 66
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Life coach is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a life coach’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.