The People Who Say They Can Save Your Career
Career coaches come with little formal certification and a lot of promises. Can they deliver?
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What do you do when you find yourself at a career standstill, unable to advance in your field, or desperate for a job change but short on leads? A whole field has cropped up to help frustrated workers answer just those questions. In the last 10 years, the career-coaching industry has exploded. By the end of 2014, coaching was a $1 billion industry in the U.S., according to search firm IBISWorld.