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Coaching for Students and Graduates by Lucy Seifert, Life Coach London
As autumn approaches, and the academic term, you may be about to start college or university.
Read how Life Coaching can help you with Managing University Life, Assertiveness, CVs, Interviews, Presentations and Careers, Relationships, Time Management and Managing the Demands of Academic Life. Coaching is online via Zoom, making it easy to access wherever you may be studying.
Your first step is to book a FREE 20-minute Zoom or phone call. You can explain what’s led you to get in touch and find out what coaching is and how it helps.
Settling in, surviving and succeeding as a student
Whether you’re
(a) just starting your studies
(b) midway through your degree and applying for work experience, or
(c) facing the demands of your final year,
Life Coaching can support you in a myriad of ways.
For example, as a new student, you may be concerned about:
- being away from home for the first time
- how you’ll get on with other students and with your tutors
- the constant academic demands and deadlines.
Whichever year you are in, do you want to:
- Feel confident and make the best of university life?
- Meet all the deadlines for essays and assignments?
- Speak up in seminars and deliver great presentations?
- Write CVs that get to the top of the pile?
- Be well prepared for placements and job interviews? Life Coaching can help you approach all these with new found confidence.
Settling in
University and College life is an exciting time, bringing many opportunities, including learning and academic achievement, independence and a sense of freedom, a new environment, new friends, and a different way of living. Yet becoming a university or college student can also be a time of great challenges.
Many students feel alone, even homesick at times. It can be hard to acclimatise from the familiarity of home and the friends you’ve known, to a new unfamiliar environment with people you do not know, combined with the pressures of academic life.
Suddenly you are handling everything yourself, if you’ve moved away from home. You have to be organised, to manage everyday tasks in life such as washing, shopping, cooking, and cleaning. You will want to get on with flatmates and have cleaning rotas that are fair. You need to schedule time for your academic work, get to lectures on time (in person or online) and meet deadlines for essays and assignments.
There are new relationships to create, friendships and partners, and sometimes these don’t work out. There may be peer pressures to go partying, drinking, and staying out late when you know you’ve work to do and an early tutorial the next morning.
With the often-conflicting pressures from family and friends, the demands of academic life can feel overwhelming and it’s important to have the confidence and skills to manage them.
Surviving
As time goes on and you settle in, you will want to maintain an organised schedule for your academic life and feel on top of your personal life with a good study-life balance.
It’s important to be able to speak up for yourself with other students, tutors, house mates and perhaps parents, and to be able to ask for help if, for example, you feel physically or emotionally unwell or are feeling troubled by the cost of living and getting into debt. Have courage to seek professional help: most campuses have an onsite counselling service. It isn’t a weakness but a strength to be able to ask.
Throughout you may be faced with a multitude of choices: which modules to take, work placements to apply for, student clubs and activities to join. You may have so much work on your plate, you’re not sure what to do first.
There may be difficulties where you live, conflicts in the student residences, noisy and messy students. In these situations it would be helpful to assert yourself and seek solutions either with the individual(s) involved or to find an alternative, such as another place to stay.
Succeeding
Life Coaching has huge benefits.
As a highly experienced coach and specialised trainer, I will help you:
- Clarify your life and career goals & make plans to achieve them, identifying your skills & talents
- Build your communication skills, and develop a confident, assertive style in handling needs and relationships
- Become a confident & effective presenter and speaker, invaluable at university, in applying for jobs & in the workplace
- Develop excellent decision making, planning and time management skills
- Produce a first-class CV and develop the ability to shine at interview, telling memorable and authentic stories using the STAR technique of answering competency questions, whether you’re applying for work experience or your first job after you finish at university or college
Make university a wonderful experience
University and college life offer great opportunities – academically, socially, and career-wise. It is important to start to prepare early for interviews to build your confidence to enter the world of work. We review what the organisation is looking for, your skills and qualities for the role, potential interview questions and how to present cogent answers to competency and other questions.
With the help of personalised Life Coaching and 1-2-1 Training, you can overcome the challenges of constant academic demands and deadlines, needing to establish yourself with your peers and tutors, and looking ahead to a successful career.
My approach is friendly yet professional, sensitive yet developmental, to help you attain what you wish for yourself.
You can speak confidentially about both concerns and ambitions in the knowledge that, as your coach, I have your best interests at heart and will help you to achieve what you wish for yourself.
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Would you welcome a FREE no obligation 20-minute conversation by Zoom or phone to find out more? You can explain your reasons for getting in touch and ask any questions you have about coaching.
