CPC Career & Life Transition Coaching Flashcards

How should a life coach approach a client experiencing burnout?

Answer: Explore contributing factors, assess severity, and collaboratively design recovery and sustainable work strategies while monitoring for clinical signs requiring referral

Coaches can help clients identify burnout causes, reclaim boundaries, and rebuild sustainable routines, while remaining alert to signs that clinical intervention may be needed.

What is the 'Holland Code' (RIASEC) theory and how does it support career coaching?

Answer: A model categorizing people and work environments into six types to predict career satisfaction and fit

John Holland's RIASEC model—Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional—helps match a client's personality type to compatible careers.

What is a 'portfolio career' and how might a coach support a client pursuing one?

Answer: A non-linear career involving multiple income streams, projects, or part-time roles rather than one full-time job

Portfolio careers are increasingly common; coaches help clients design, prioritize, and sustainably manage multiple professional activities.

What is 'the gap analysis' technique in career coaching?

Answer: Assessing the difference between a client's current state and their desired career goal to create a development roadmap

Gap analysis maps the skills, experiences, and connections a client needs to acquire to reach their career target, turning an abstract goal into a concrete development plan.

How might a life coach help a client navigate a major life transition such as retirement?

Answer: By helping the client explore identity, purpose, and new structures for meaning and connection after leaving full-time work

Retirement coaching addresses identity shifts, loss of professional structure, purpose, relationships, and the design of a fulfilling next chapter—not just finances.

What is 'decision fatigue' and how can a career coach help clients experiencing it?

Answer: Exhaustion caused by having too many career options, impairing the quality of decisions over time

Decision fatigue degrades choice quality as the day progresses; coaches help clients prioritize decisions, simplify options, and create decision-making frameworks.