Free Career Coaching Tools

39 worksheets, assessments, and frameworks with print-ready PDF downloads

Find the right Career Coaching tool for the client’s situation

Start with what the client needs to explore or change, then narrow by coaching phase and format. Each resource includes a practical use case, estimated completion time, and a free print-ready PDF so the tool can support work in session or between sessions.

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Career

Career Change Exploration Worksheet

A client has been thinking about a career change for months but hasn't committed to a direction

45+ minWorksheet
31 downloads
Career

Career Values Assessment

A client is dissatisfied at work but can't pinpoint why when the role looks fine on paper

30 minAssessment
24 downloads
Career

Journaling Prompts: Career and Purpose

A client who's successful by external measures but isn't sure the career they've built is the one they actually want

45+ minWorksheet
11 downloads
Career

Career Anchor Sort

A pivoter who needs to read which career anchors are live and which are dormant before scoping the pivot

30 minAssessment
Career

Career Branding Workbook

A client wants to get intentional about how they're perceived professionally

45+ minWorksheet
Career

Career Reflection Journal

A client feels stuck in their career but isn't sure what they actually want

45+ minWorksheet
Career

Career Transition Planner

A client is seriously considering leaving their current role or field

45+ minPlanner
14 downloads
Career

Career Vision Worksheet

A client knows their current job well but has never clearly named what career they actually want

30 minWorksheet
Career

Constraint Mapping

A client in a high-cost-of-staying engagement where the constraints are real and unmovable

30 minFramework
Career

Encore Statement

A client in the late-career encore window who needs to write their encore commitment as a contract with themselves

30 minWorksheet
Career

Job Search Strategy Planner

A client is job searching reactively and wants to build a more strategic approach

30 minPlanner
Career

Motivation Mapping

A stuck-mid-career client who can't name what would unstick them and is investing time in low-energy work

30 minAssessment
Career

Networking Action Plan

A client knows networking matters but keeps not doing it and isn't sure why

30 minPlanner
Career

Performance and Development Planner

A client wants to take ownership of their own development rather than waiting for a manager to drive it

45+ minPlanner
Career

Personal Brand Statement

A client struggling to articulate what makes them professionally distinctive

30 minWorksheet
Career

Productivity System Design

A client who's tried multiple productivity systems and none of them stick past the first week

45+ minPlanner
Career

Professional Development Plan

A client plans one year at a time and never builds toward a long-term direction

30 minPlanner
Career

Professional Strength Exploration

A client wants to understand how their strengths are perceived and whether they stand out

30 minWorksheet
Career

Returner Re-Anchor Worksheet

A returner after caregiving who needs to distinguish what shifted during the years away from formal work

45+ minWorksheet
Career

Sector-Line Translation Map

A nonprofit executive director transitioning to a corporate role and facing the mission-identity grief plus translation work

45+ minFramework
Career

Skills and Strengths Inventory (Professional)

A client needs a clear-eyed picture of where they're strong and where they're exposed professionally

30 minAssessment
Career

Three Horizons Mapping

A pivoter who says they're considering a change but has invested zero time in scoping it

30 minFramework
Career

Time Management Audit

A client wants to see where their time actually goes versus where they think it goes

45+ minTracker
Career

Wheel of Life — Caregiving Context

A returner after caregiving who needs to surface what the caregiving years gave them and what is now underserved

30 minAssessment