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Free career toolkit

Free resources we use with paying clients

Workbooks, templates and guides built from the actual materials in our coaching and training programs. Give us an email address and we send the ones you ask for — no drip sequence designed to wear you down.

What is inside

Six resources, all free

Each one is designed to be finished in an evening and used immediately, rather than filed away for later.
  • For professionals12-page PDF

    The Career Direction Workbook

    A structured workbook that takes the fog of “I need a change” and turns it into three directions worth testing, with space to capture the evidence behind each one.

    What is inside
    • The evidence exercise: mining your own history for what actually fits you
    • A one-page direction statement template
    • Three low-risk experiment designs with success criteria
    • A decision-date planner so the exploration ends
  • For professionals9-page PDF

    The Positioning and Résumé Guide

    Why most applications fail before anyone reads them, and the three changes that fix it: a single positioning sentence, results-led experience entries, and a search that runs on conversations.

    What is inside
    • Before-and-after experience entries with the reasoning explained
    • The 40-word positioning statement formula
    • Résumé and LinkedIn checklist you can work through in an evening
    • Warm-introduction scripts for reaching people you do not know yet
  • For professionalsSpreadsheet template

    The Interview Story Bank Template

    A simple structure for building eight to twelve stories with measurable results, mapped against the questions interviewers actually ask.

    What is inside
    • Story template: context, action, result, relevance
    • A question map covering competency, behavioral and motivational questions
    • Space to rehearse a 60-second and a 20-second version of each story
  • For future coaches10-page PDF

    The Career Coach Training Roadmap

    An honest map of what it takes to become a career coach: the skills, the practice hours, the credentials worth pursuing, and the realistic timeline from first session to first paying client.

    What is inside
    • The six capabilities professional coaching requires
    • Comparing training formats: weekend courses, cohort programs and supervised practice
    • A realistic twelve-month plan from training to paid work
    • Questions to ask any coach training provider — including us
  • For future coachesSpreadsheet template

    The Coaching Practice Economics Sheet

    The numbers most coach training courses skip: how many sessions a week you can truly deliver, what each one must earn, and what the first year looks like before it works.

    What is inside
    • Income-needs calculator that works backwards from your target earnings
    • Delivery-hour reality check with preparation and admin included
    • Package and pricing models with their trade-offs explained
  • For everyoneEmail series — 4 short emails

    The Quarterly Career Check-In

    Four emails, one a week, that walk you through analyzing whether your current role is still serving you — and what to do about it if it is not.

    What is inside
    • The four questions that surface a decision before it becomes urgent
    • How to tell the difference between a bad month and a wrong path
    • When to change the role, the manager, the company or the field

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Next step

Use the toolkit, then test it on a real situation

The materials work best when applied to a live decision. A free 30-minute call is the fastest way to do that with someone who will tell you the truth.

Questions about the resources? Email hello@vincemycoach.com.