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For which situations, at what key moments in your career?

As part of the Career offer from the Career Development Department of IÉSEG Network, all our graduates can benefit from individual coaching support, designed as a structured space for reflection, gaining perspective, and moving forward. This service addresses various moments in your professional journey, whether you are going through a transition period, career development, reflection, or professional tension. To make this service clearer, discover the main coaching themes covered, as well as the concrete situations they encompass, to help you identify those that may resonate with your own situation.

Each coaching is linked to a main coaching theme, determined based on the initial request expressed by the graduate at the time of contact, even though several topics may be addressed during the support.

The coaching themes presented below therefore correspond to the main types of professional situations addressed in coaching sessions.

The coaching provided to graduates mainly covers situations of professional transition, whether chosen (career development, repositioning, taking on a new role) or experienced (breakup, crisis, loss of bearings).

Beyond the displayed coaching themes, the individual coaching support regularly brings to light cross-cutting issues such as self-confidence, decision-making, meaning clarification, professional posture, and managing complex situations.

This diversity of coaching situations reflects both the variety of graduates’ career paths and the role of the IÉSEG Network Career Development Services of as a space for comprehensive support of professional trajectories.

Presentation of coaching themes

This list of coaching topics is not exhaustive. Each topic presents a general objective + the typical professional situations encountered

1. Job search

General objective 
 Support graduates in their first professional integration or during a job search phase in their career.

Typical situations

·         Entry into the job market after graduation

• Job search
• Difficulty repositioning after a period of inactivity
• Removing obstacles and blockages in the job search
• Clarification of the professional project before an active job search
• Structuring a job search approach (method, strategy, and priorities)
• Enhancement of career path, skills, and professional experiences
• Managing discouragement, loss of confidence, or lack of visibility during the job search
• Optimization of application tools (CV, cover letter, LinkedIn profile, professional pitch) and preparation for recruitment interviews[1]

2. Career transition

General Objective 
 Support graduates in a thorough and structured reflection aimed at changing company, profession, sector, or professional model (including end-of-career management).

Typical situations

• Questioning of the career path and loss of meaning
• Desire to give more meaning to one’s career
• Need for alignment between personal values and professional activity
• Exploration of new professional paths without a fixed vision and difficulty in making choices
• Preparation of a career change project already considered
• Enhancement of the existing career path and capitalization on transferable strengths
• Definition of a transition or career change strategy
• Fear of change, financial risks, or loss of status
• End-of-career management
• Preparation for retirement or gradual exit (advice, transfer)

3. Professional repositioning

General Objective 
 Support graduates in the development or adjustment of their professional career without a radical change of profession within the same company.

Typical situations

• Internal evolution (chosen or undergone) towards a different role
• Preparation for a promotion or taking on new responsibilities
• Adjustment of posture following a change of environment or positioning
• Finding one’s place in a new team
• Need for clarification of one’s professional added value and transferable skills

4. Support for Onboarding / Leadership Development

General Objective 
 Support graduates in taking up a new position or in developing their managerial and leadership posture.

Typical situations

• Starting a position with management responsibilities for the first time (long term)
• Access to expanded or strategic responsibilities
• Managing former peers or complex teams
• Affirmation of one’s legitimacy and leadership (developing one’s managerial stance)
• Adjustment of posture in response to strong expectations
• Building a network of internal allies and managing these relationships
• Relations with governance bodies (Executive Committee, Board of Directors, shareholders, unions)
• Influence games and internal politics

5. Crisis management

General Objective 
 Support graduates facing a destabilizing, critical, or sudden professional situation requiring prompt and structured assistance.

Typical situations

·         Termination of employment contract (dismissal) or sudden career setback (precautionary suspension)

·         Management of professional conflicts (executive, manager, partner, or team)

·         Situation of high pressure or professional tension at work

·         Urgent high-stakes professional decision-making

·         Loss of bearings following a sudden professional event

·         Support during a period of imposed transition

·         Period of instability or personal crisis impacting work

6. Professional development advice

General Objective 
 Help graduates proactively manage their career paths in alignment with their aspirations (the approach here is advisory, not coaching).

Typical situations

·         Optimization of application tools (CV, cover letter, LinkedIn profile, pitch, etc.) and advice on the use of AI

·         Interview simulations (French / English)

·         Advice on non-verbal posture in interviews (NLP tools - Neuro-Linguistic Programming). Influence strategy

·         Removing obstacles and blockages

7. Identification of the DNA of strengths

General Objective 
 Enable graduates to better understand themselves in order to identify and leverage their strengths, talents, and sources of motivation.

Typical situations

·         Deepen your self-knowledge. Need to better understand your personal and professional functioning

·         Identification and understanding of recurring patterns of thought, feelings, and behaviors

·         Identification of strengths and performance drivers

·         Clarification of sources of motivation and engagement

·         Development of personal and professional alignment

·         Strengthening confidence and assertiveness through strengths

8. Other specific support

General objective 
 To respond to support requests that do not strictly fall within the previous categories.

Typical situations

·         Support for entrepreneurs on specific issues. Position and isolation of the leader / entrepreneur

·         Hybrid issues mixing personal and professional spheres

·         Identification of one’s resources to address a given issue

·         Occasional support on a targeted question

·         Atypical or non-recurring situations

·         Exploratory requests not related to a clear dominant coaching theme

Are you interested?

If, when reading these topics, certain situations resonate with your journey, your reflections, or your current challenges, it is likely that taking a step back could be beneficial for you. Executive coaching provides a strictly confidential, supportive, and non-judgmental framework to clarify your situation, overcome obstacles, and define the next steps in your career path.

The Coaching offer is comprehensive and includes the types of support:

-          Executive coaching

-          Cliftonstrengths® coaching

-          Magic Box coaching

All coaching sessions are conducted by me: Elizabeth Toucas, Executive Coach certified by HEC Paris and GALLUP & Head of the Career Development Services

·         Session duration: 1h30

·         In person in Paris or remotely via Zoom - on Mondays and Tuesdays during the day.

·         Conducted in French, English, Spanish, or Portuguese

Price for Executive coaching session, Magic Box coaching, and professional development consulting:

§  Contributing graduate: 2 sessions of 1h30 offered

§  Non-contributing graduate: 1 complimentary 1.5-hour coaching session

§  Contributing graduate - Additional 1h30 session: €80 (Preferential rate)

§  Graduate Non-contributing - Additional 1h30 session: €100 (Preferential rate)

CliftonStrengths® coaching session rate

§  1h30 session: €100

§  Test: €67 (the cost of the test is not included in the cost of the coaching session)

Attention - Any session cancelled (or rescheduled) less than 72 hours before the scheduled coaching date will be forfeited.

For any need for individual coaching support in Executive Coaching or for any information request about the Career Development Services, please contact me:

e.toucas@ieseg.fr or +33.6.85.33.01.57.

Elizabeth TOUCAS – Executive Strengths Coach & Career Manager – IÉSEG Network