Katie Smith is the founder and Chief Enabled Careerist at Careerable.
At Careerable, Katie helps individuals become “enabled careerists” by equipping them with the skills and tools they need to excel in today’s 21st-century career landscape.
Her mission is to help others define and strive for their own personal definition of professional success.
KATIE SMITH CAREER COACHING
Katie views career coaching more like career discovery. It's the combination of career development, answering the what do I want to do with my life and job searching.
Katie works mostly with 20 to 30 years old but she also works with a fair amount of career changers who don’t know what LinkedIn is or don’t see the value in the platform. Twitter? Forget about it.
As a career coach Katie serves as a partner to help her clients on their journey using her 4-step process, she calls A.B.L.E. which is an acronym for Analyze, Brand, Leverage, and Embark .
4-Step CareerABLE Process
Analyze:
This step requires the most time commitment but it is also the most important. Katie’s clients are required to identify their personal mission statement during this step. Katie explains the point of the Analyze step is to determine what you want your life to look like and how your career fits into that vision.
During this step, you will reach out to others to help you identify your values, skills, and strengths. This is very similar to what Scott Barlow and I discussed during our conversation.
Additionally, you’ll identify your ideal job or working conditions and Katie has her clients take The Birkman Method during this step as well.
Similar to Myers-Briggs, the Birkman looks at a variety of things like your interests but where it differs is with the job report it generates. Based on your assessment responses, the job report will suggest potential career paths and/or jobs you should consider.
Brand:
Katie reviews both the online and offline brand of her clients. This includes reviewing the resume, LinkedIn profiles, and social media accounts not only for current content but to ensure they are aligned with the direction you identified in the Analyze step.
Additionally during the Brand step, Katie works with her clients to help them articulate what they want both online and offline.
Leverage:
Katie has a saying for the leverage step, “leverage your network, learn through relationships”. In Leverage, her clients begin to use their network to help them determine what they want and maybe more importantly, what they don’t want from their career.
You may remember Olivia Gamber taking about scheduling coffee meetings with people who hold positions you are interested in. This is the same concept and, yes, this is the networking step. You will need to reach out to others and have conversations.
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