>> My name is Colleen Georges and I have my own business as a career coach and a life coach
and a resume writer, although that's part of career coaching,
it's probably one of the biggest parts of what I do.
And I also teach part-time here at Rutgers.
I teach through the College Student Affairs program, the school counseling program,
and the counseling psychology program at the Graduate School
of Education which is one of my alma maters.
And I teach at my other alma mater, the Douglass Residential College and I teach there,
Introductory Womens Leadership course.
I don't know that there's an average client.
So I see really a range of people who are students who are still in college,
people who just graduated or graduated a couple years ago.
I see people who are in, you know, mid-career transition.
You know, been working for ten plus years and are, you know, looking for new possibilities.
And I also see a lot of people because of this economy
who have recently been laid off or are about to face a layoff.
And then I should also say that, you know, some people who are coming back to work after being
out of the workforce for a while.
Well, first of all, I'm a virtual business so basically the large majority of the work
that I do is through email and through telephone.
Although I do meet with clients in person.
That's part of what I do if that's something that a client is interested in and typically
when I do that, I have a local Panera Bread that I frequent.
I think that they must think I practically live there because I'm over there on the regular.
So basically it depends on what the client is looking for.
So sometimes people are just looking for a resume, a cover letter.
Sometimes they want a LinkedIn profile.
Sometimes they want a whole sort of, you know, career counseling process to think about,
you know, is there another place that they could potentially utilize the skill set
that they have to, you know, transition into a different career.
Sometimes people, again, it may have been a really, really long time since they had to look
for a job and they're out of practice about where do you look now.
What are the sort of online and in person resources that exist to job search in general.
How do you use social media and stuff like that
so I do job search coaching, and a lot of interview coaching.
It seems to be, you know, for many people the greatest fear is to go into the interview
and people really want to be prepared for that.