Coaching is a great career for individuals who are passionate about helping others. It starts there because a coach's responsibility is to teach, support, plan, mentor, and guide in creative and strategic ways.
Coaching Today
A career in coaching now crosses all industries and niches. It is centered around development and support to a client, mentee, or anyone who wants to learn. If you do a job search for “coach,” a myriad of coach-related positions appear in the search results. In the latest search these ten positions were listed:
- Franchise Business Coach
- Golf Coach
- Sales Coach
- Credit Coach
- Postsecondary Leadership Coach
- Culture and Change Coach
- Expedition Coach
- Agility Coach
- Career Coach
- Head Coach
These are all very different roles for their prospective companies but are all related to some form of coaching. Coaching career pathways seem to be endless. If you go back just a decade, the term coach was more synonymous with sports, wellness, life, or career. Embarking on a career path for coaching in the past may have required certain levels of certifications, especially in wellness or life/career. Now a Linkedin search will get you over 200,000+ professional, personal, and athletic coaching positions.
How to become a Coach?
Coaching as a career is an excellent choice for those who love to help others. Here are some skills or experiences that could enhance your ability to become a coach in your career:
- Expertise: Whatever your industry, you have spent significant time studying, researching, and executing. Not only can you understand the ins and outs but also current and upcoming trends.
- Education/Training Background: Having some experience instructing or mentoring individuals will help your ability to coach and train individuals. Many coaches have degrees in psychology, counseling, or human resources. You can also get a Masters degree.
- Mentorship: Receiving coaching from your own personal mentor can help teach you how to be an expert coach. Typically your company will offer them internally, or you can always seek out a professional.
What is the role of a coach?
At the core, someone who is interested in a career in coaching is passionate about developing people. Typically that individual is a subject matter expert, who has the ability to instruct, mentor, guide, and develop skills on a personalized level. A coach is someone who can up-skill and train you in specific development areas. They may identify and prioritize improvement areas, break down your end goal into smaller goals and work with you to shape and grow your mindset. Coaching is designed to improve an individual or team’s performance.
How much is a coach salary?
For the same above coaching positions found on LinkedIn, if you search on Glassdoor you will find a wide range of salaries related to coaching. Depending on the industry, it could range from $45K to $133K+, from sports coaches to business coaches. You could earn more at the higher end of the spectrum as an executive coach as well. According to Glassdoor, overall the median salary for the title of Coach was $66K.
Coaching at Multiverse
At Multiverse, we hire coaches to help achieve our mission of creating a diverse group of future leaders. We’re building an outstanding alternative to college and corporate training, through the power of professional apprenticeships. Specifically, we coach and support apprentices with developing and upskilling their digital, tech, business, or leadership skills. Our coaches typically play the role of the coach and mentor, which means we develop their professional skill set and impact their overall personal development.
Many Multiverse coaches come from teaching backgrounds or are industry professionals. Elizabeth Naameh talks about her journey from computer science teacher to Data Coach at Multiverse and Jose Navarro shares how he transitioned from industry into Coaching thanks to our paid Coaching Academy.
How to Apply
After announcing our Series D funding in June 2022, Multiverse is now officially a mission-driven unicorn. Multiverse is looking for new coaches to support our growth and achieve our ambitions of changing hundreds of thousands of lives. To apply, check out the open US coaching roles at the careers page.
