Picking the right candidate for the job comes across as common knowledge for many of us. In the same way, selecting the right person for career coaching is paramount to whether or not your career goals will be captured and lived by.
In this blog, I will share a part of my journey as it will shed some light on my upbringing, work experience, and philosophy when it comes to making wholesome career decisions. Most importantly, it may give you more clarity in determining whether or not I am the right coach for you.
To begin, I was born and raised in Toronto, Ontario in the year of 1989 and later moved to Calgary at a young age of 7 as my parents venture to new opportunities. For many years, both my parents ran a restaurant together serving Malaysian food. At some point of time, they dabbled into starting up a food franchise called Malay King. Once that failed, it did not stop my dad's ambition in pursuing a coffee shop franchise chain called Spice Café. In summary, I have watched and examined my parent's hard work and dedication that led to both successes and shortcomings while they pursued a career path in business. During my adolescent and young adult years, I had a fair share of responsibilities running a family business and sustaining a total of 5 café chains all located near or within downtown Calgary alongside my siblings. I had the opportunity to get involved and develop transferable skills in dish washing, commercial kitchen cleaning, food preparation, cooking, catering, customer service, staff training, restaurant design, record and prepare business taxes, and finally when I was mature enough, small business management duties.
In sync, I was privileged to learn a great deal from my parent's business endeavors. To the best of my dad's ability, he fostered the expression, "jack of all trades, master of none." I was able to learn quickly the power of dedication and networking firsthand from my dad. This has shaped my own career pursues in the arts and human services industry. On the other hand, I also became aware of the crookedness of business and how money alone can become the root of many evils. For this reason, I have adopted the time-centric mindset as opposed to the money-centric mindset that I grew up fostering at a very young age.
““Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ― George Bernard Shaw
My passion in helping others In Career Development and Transition
One of the most transformative life events was back in 2010 when I was introduced to Christianity by one of my employee's. Despite my lack of interest at the time, I admired her fearlessness and continual persistence towards inviting me to a Friday evening Christian small group. What fueled my curiosity to continue going every week was their willingness to expose their weakness, help one another through action and prayer, and serve the marginalized populations too!
As a result, I realized the importance of well-being and how it isn't simply tied to occupational and financial, but spiritual, emotional, social, environmental, vocational and intellectual just the same. Not only that, it steered my understanding in the power of resiliency by getting connected, making every day meaningful, staying optimistic, and embracing change.
My Expertise in Career Coaching guidance & Development
Since 2011, I had the privilege to support both youth and adults to foster the well-being model to improve their quality of life. In 2019, I expanded my expertise as a Career Consultant at CAES.
Regarding my role as a Career Consultant, it is to support people with disabilities through the continuum of career exploration and development in order to support and promote sustainable and long-term employment and inclusion within their team. I engage and support a caseload of up to 30 job-seekers per year in career-related planning, learning, choices, preparation, and direct job retention supports to clientele and employers.
Throughout my years of experience, I have supported hundreds of clients to flourish in their chosen career path. To that end, I gained a greater understanding that my approach to career guidance and development are fundamentally the same regardless of a disability or not.
Yules Chan (BFA, CWS, CCS) is a CPC registered career development professional in Calgary who is motivated in providing holistic excellence by finding your hidden genius through the world of employment.
For more information go to Brilliant Person Career Coaching or call +1 (403) 891-2673 for a 15-minute complimentary consultation. We provide both in-person and online services.
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