What is a career change coach?
A career change coach works with people who want to change profession, industry, or way of life. Career reinvention is a high-stakes process: it requires exploring options, stress-testing your aspirations against reality (market demand, transferable skills, finances), and securing the transition. Your coach helps you clarify your values and motivators, test hypotheses (informational interviews, job shadowing), and build a realistic roadmap: any necessary training, timeline, budget, and intermediate milestones. Their role is to help you avoid two classic traps: the impulsive leap and the fear-driven paralysis. This kind of support is particularly valuable in mid-career.
Why work with a career change coach?
- Identify what truly drives and fulfils you
- Explore paths aligned with your values
- Build a solid, realistic transition plan
- Decide with confidence and move forward
Approaches and methods
The engagement combines exploration (values, transferable skills, ideation), hypothesis testing (informational interviews, immersion), and structuring (action plan, funding, timeline). Some coaches specialise by sector or profile — corporate professionals, freelance, entrepreneurship.
How much does a career change coach cost?
Career change coaching typically runs between €70 and €180 per hour, most commonly as a package over several months. Some elements (such as a formal skills assessment) may be eligible for employer or government funding. Free introductory session on EraCoach.
How does EraCoach ensure quality?
Every coach on EraCoach is vetted by hand by our team: identity, certifications, background and code of ethics. Reviews are left only by clients who completed a session.
Frequently asked questions
- As soon as the desire to change is there but the direction is still unclear, or before making a major decision. A coach helps you structure your exploration and secure the transition rather than rushing or staying stuck.
- Certain components may be: formal skills assessments are often funded through employer training accounts, and some employer or government schemes can cover retraining costs. Coaching itself is generally self-funded.
- Often 8 to 12 sessions over 3 to 6 months — long enough to explore properly, test real options, and build a realistic action plan.
- That's completely normal and exactly what the first phase is for: clarifying your values, identifying your transferable skills, and generating options before testing them against reality.
- Yes, video sessions are entirely suitable and let you choose a coach who specialises in your target profile or industry, wherever they are based.