Career Coaching & Career Change | Salah Abdeldayem
Career change, job search, returning to work or the next career step: coaching that turns your experience, strengths and options into a clear direction.
Coaching · Work & career
Your next career move starts with clarity.
Moving forward in your career does not always start with the next job. You know something needs to change, but the direction is not clear yet? Career coaching helps you sort through your experience, abilities and circumstances and turn them into a realistic direction.
Free 20-minute intro call
In English, German or Arabic
Online or in person
Perhaps you are thinking
I don't know whether I should change careers.
My job no longer fits me, but I don't know where to go instead.
I have several options, and none of them feels clearly right.
After such a long break, I don't know how to get back into work.
Perhaps your current job no longer suits you. Perhaps you are thinking about changing careers, looking for a new perspective, or wondering what comes next after a longer period of transition. Career decisions are about more than a CV. They involve your abilities, experience, expectations, finances and values, and the question of what you actually want your working life to look like.
Where coaching can help
From the first doubt about your current job to the next concrete step.
Changing direction
You know your current path no longer fits, but not yet what would make sense instead? Together we look at where you are now, your experience, skills and interests, and work out possible directions from there.
Job search and transitions
A career change raises many questions at once: What am I actually looking for? What can I offer? Which positions suit me? How do I present my experience convincingly? Coaching helps turn a vague job search into a clear career strategy.
Professional identity
Sometimes the job itself is not the problem. Perhaps what you expect from your work has changed, or your previous role no longer matches how you see yourself. Coaching helps you understand this shift and what it means for your career.
Career development
If you want to grow professionally, aiming for the next position is often not enough. It matters more to understand which direction really fits your abilities, goals and priorities.
What coaching can do
The goal is not to prescribe a career for you. The goal is a better basis for your decision. By the end, you should be clearer about:
- Where do I stand?
- What can I do?
- What do I want?
- Which options are realistic?
- What is my next concrete step?
No coaching can guarantee a new job or a particular position. What it can do is help you choose your next steps deliberately and take them well prepared.
How the coaching works
Intro call
First we clarify what it is about for you and what you want to achieve. Free, 20 minutes, no obligation.
Focus
We decide which question or challenge actually matters most right now.
Working on your situation
We look not only at the problem, but also at ways of thinking, decisions, options for action and the conditions under which change is meant to happen.
Next steps
Insight should not end with a good conversation. Where it makes sense, it turns into concrete next steps.
What you bring: your experience so far and the career question on your mind right now. A CV can be useful, but you don't need one to start.
Typical situations
This coaching can make sense if you
are thinking about changing careers
are looking for a new professional perspective
are torn between several options
want to return to work after a longer break
feel stuck in your career
want to take on more responsibility
want to understand your professional strengths more clearly
want to redefine your professional direction
Not the right setting
Writing your applications: I don't write them for you. But we can go through what you have and work out how best to present your experience.
Job placement: I don't place people in jobs. Coaching is about your direction and your strategy.
Employment law questions: for dismissal, contracts or severance, an employment lawyer is the right contact.
Why work with me?
I have been supporting people through career transitions for many years, in one-to-one coaching and as a coach and lecturer with an education provider specialising in job and career coaching. Altogether that is more than 20 years of coaching practice across Europe and the Gulf, with further training in areas such as leadership and business coaching and systemic counselling.
With career questions I look not only at your CV, but also at what you are actually looking for. That is often why a decision is not moving forward.
More than 20 years of coaching practice
Sessions in English, German or Arabic
A documented methodology of my own
Confidential, online or in person
What clients say
Marketing Manager
I came into the coaching with a very specific professional problem, but I quickly realised that the real issue was the way I was approaching it. Salah did not give me ready made answers. Instead, he asked questions that made me look at the situation from a completely different angle. I left the sessions with much more clarity and a better understanding of what was actually holding me back. The biggest difference for me was feeling that I could make my own decisions with much more confidence.
Not a standard program
The five coaching areas are there for orientation, and many situations overlap. A career change can raise questions about personal development, decisions and how you come across, all at once. A new leadership role combines communication, decision making and personal confidence. And starting a business is often both, a professional and a personal change. That is why coaching does not start from the category, but from your actual situation.
Personal development & decisions
When you want to get clear about something, make an important decision or shape a personal change deliberately.
Learn more
When conversations get difficult, or you want to express yourself more clearly and come across with more confidence.
Starting a Business & Self-Employment
When you are planning to become self-employed, developing a business idea or facing entrepreneurial decisions.
To start on your own: Reading the Traces: discover your abilities. For people with a refugee or migration background there is also a separate area: work and career in Germany.
All coaching areas at a glance
You do not need to know yet which coaching you need.
If you know that you want to clarify, change or decide something, that is enough for a first conversation.
Frequently asked questions
Do you also help with application documents?
I don't write applications for you. But we can go through your existing documents together and work out which experience to put first and how to describe it clearly.
Can the coaching be funded with an AVGS voucher?
In Germany, an activation and placement voucher (AVGS) can pay for coaching with an approved provider. Whether you receive a voucher is decided by the Jobcenter or the employment agency, and I cannot promise it. Privately paid coaching is not an AVGS measure. If you have a voucher or want to apply for one, mention it in the intro call and we will work out which route makes sense for you.
What if I end up staying in my current job?
That can be a good result too, as long as it is a deliberate decision. Sometimes coaching shows that it is not the job that needs to change, but the role, the tasks or the way you work.
How long does career coaching take?
That depends on your situation. A specific decision can sometimes be clarified in a few sessions; changing direction usually takes several sessions over a few weeks or months. We discuss the scope in the intro call.
I earned my degree outside Germany. Is this coaching still right for me?
Yes. For people with a refugee or migration background there is also a separate area with formats for the professional path in Germany: coaching for work and career in Germany.Ready for a change at work, but not sure where to go?
Let's start by looking at your situation together. The intro call is free and takes 20 minutes.