Many people seek to change jobs early in the New Year. How can we build confidence when career coaching? John Lees reports

A while back a university colleague mentioned that two kinds of support were on offer to students: career coaching and career counselling. I asked what the difference was. “Coaching is for students with confidence issues”, was the answer. My response then and now is that nearly everything we do in career coaching is about confidence – about clients understanding and claiming their best selves, and communicating that effectively and authentically. Confidence...