Career Coaching Graduates buck employment trends 

Opportunities for professionally qualified Career Coaches have multiplied in the global recession

Colin Hughes, Head of Department of Services Management Studies, Dublin Institute of Technology and Miriam Magner-Flynn, President of Institute of Career Coaching Ireland and Managing Director of  Career Decisions Ireland pictured with Graduates of the Diploma in Career Coaching at the recent Graduation Ceremony

"The Diploma in Career Coaching has been an outstanding success with over 75% of the 93 graduates from the 2010 class having already progressed into employment" said Miriam Magner-Flynn, Managing Director, Career Decisions Ireland and President of Institute of Career Coaching Ireland (ICCI).  The ICCI is a specialist division of Career Decisions Ireland dedicated to training and developing Career Coaches and equipping them with a professional qualification of international repute. 

With the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) recently claiming over 90,000 Irish graduates are currently unemployed or considering emigration, the graduates of Ireland’s first Diploma in Career Coaching are bucking the trend.  Of the graduates who were conferred with a Diploma in Career Coaching (NFQ Level 7) in DIT, 75% have secured new employment. Of this figure, 30% have moved into new jobs with 45% started their own Career Coaching businesses.

Career Coaches provide professional career services which include helping individuals make informed career decisions and effectively market themselves to secure new employment and promotion.    Viewed as a recession-friendly business, Career Coaching is currently one of the fastest growing industries in the world*.  With nervous employees wanting to increase their employability, the newly unemployed seeking CV and Interview Coaching and organisations using the services of Career Coaches to assist employees facing redundancy, the opportunities for professionally qualified Career Coaches have multiplied in the global recession.  The Career Coaching sector is worth $2.4 million in the U.S. alone and is growing by18% year on year**.   

The Diploma in Career Coaching (NFQ Level 7) awarded by DIT, is Ireland’s first professionally accredited, internationally recognised qualification in Career Coaching. This world class Diploma has been developed by Career Decisions Ireland, an award winning Career Coaching Company that has been at the forefront of the Career Coaching profession for the past 17 years. The Diploma is delivered by expert Career Professionals part time over a 7 month period. Enrollment is taking place now for the 2011 Diploma in Career Coaching which starts in November 2011 at centres in Dublin and Limerick. For further information log onto www.careerdecisions.ie.

According to Magner-Flynn the diploma is ideally suited to people interested in securing new employment, changing career, improving their job prospects, gaining a promotion and a competitive edge through a professional qualification of international repute. It would benefit people with a background in Areas such as Teaching, Training, Management, Human Resources, Recruitment, Development, Leadership or related areas.

Pictured at the Diploma in Career Coaching Graduation are Sheena Murphy, Diploma in Career Coaching Graduate, John Jameson, Head of School of Retail and Services, Dublin Institute of Technology and Miriam Magner-Flynn, President of Institute of Career Coaching Ireland (ICCI) and Managing Director of Career Decisions Ireland

Founded by Miriam Magner-Flynn in 1994, Career Decisions Ireland is a premium provider of Career Coaching & Career Management services to clients in both the public and private sectors.  It is the only Coaching company in Ireland to be approved as a FETAC Training Centre and has offices in Dublin and Limerick and a nationwide team of 48 highly experienced and accredited Career Coaches, Retirement Coaches and Psychologists.     www.careerdecisions.ie  

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  *National Post Report (US), 2007
**Market Data Report (US), 2009