Jobbcoachning- en skjuts i karriären eller en lindring i misären - En kvalitativ studie av jobbcoachningens roll på arbetsmarknaden
This paper examines job coaching on the Swedish labour market. The study uses trygghetsråden, which are organizations established by an agreement from the labour and employer side, as a starting point for the study. In addition, the study examines the phenomenon from the perspective of the job coaches themselves and the coaches clients. The study concludes that job coaching is defined by the coach and the client's common goal of finding a suitable match for the client on the labour market. The job coach helps the client reach the goal of an appropriate job by making him or her aware of his or her competences and preferences. Moreover, the job coach uses his or her in depth knowledge of the labour market to give useful information to his client about which employers might be suitable and how the client could successfully promote him- or herself to this employer. In order to efficiently convey all this information, the job coach must be able to develop a close relationship to the client. To do this the coach should have high emotional intelligence and be able to adapt the job coaching process to different individuals. When succeeding in efficiently matching people with jobs, coaches can thereby contribute to the overall efficiency on the labour market.