Career Coaching is a structured path that helps you navigate today’s job market, set clear goals, and build a satisfying, sustainable career. Through personalised sessions, the coach guides you through an in-depth exploration of your values, strengths, and aspirations transforming them into concrete strategies and measurable professional outcomes.
Career Mentoring a learning relationship involving the sharing of skills, knowledge, and expertise between a mentor and mentee through developmental conversations, experience sharing, and role modelling
Career Coaching and Career Mentoring
Our Career Coaching and Mentoring services support you in gaining clarity, making intentional decisions, and building an action plan you can actually execute based on who you are, where you are and where you want to go.
Who Is It For?
Every client is unique, and so is every coaching journey. There are no fixed categories or predefined paths: we work with each person based on their specific situation, goals, and aspirations. Here are just a few examples of the people we work with:
– Professionals who want to grow, change role, or move into a new industry
– Individuals planning an international move (e.g., from Italy to Ireland) looking for strategic guidance on career and integration
– People going through a transition: job change, redundancy, or returning to work after a break
– Students and early-career professionals looking for a clear, concrete development plan
– Professionals targeting management, leadership, or executive roles
– Workers aiming to increase their income by progressing more strategically in their career
You may see yourself in any of these, or in none of them, and we are here to help regardless. Every change starts with a conversation.
The value of working with a career coach
Choosing a Career Coach means accelerating your growth with a clear roadmap, proven tools, and ongoing expert feedback saving you time and helping you avoid the strategic mistakes that a “go it alone” approach often brings.
Your Career Coaching journey with DADAKAI may include:
- Potential discovery: strengths, skills, values, and aspirations
- Goal setting and a tailored, personalised action plan
- Personal branding: CV review, LinkedIn audit, and professional positioning
- Interview preparation (multi-stage) and salary and offer negotiation support
- Expat and relocation support: work culture, networking, and integration into a new job market
- See here for more: Career Coaching: a strategy for designing the professional life you want. And build it.
What we help to discover
1. Assessment & Motivational Discovery
- Career mapping and assessment of personal values
- Identification of passions, motivations, and career anchors
- Personal and professional discovery exercises: strengths, competencies, passions
- Definition of your ideal working environment and desired lifestyle
2. Career Strategy & Goal Setting
- Personalised career planning with short and long-term objectives
- Action plan creation and progress monitoring
- A structured roadmap for professional transition
- Definition of success metrics and accountability systems
3. Personal Branding, Communication & Positioning
- Personal brand development and unique value proposition
- CV and résumé creation or revision (in Italian and/or English)
- Cover letter writing and elevator pitch development
- LinkedIn profile optimisation and digital presence
- Coaching on communication style, voice, body language, and mindset
- Preparation for video interviews and in-person meetings
4. Job Market Navigation & Search Strategy
- Job search support and strategic use of online platforms
- Overview of the Irish job market and its dynamics
- Opportunities for high-profile talent and top-earning roles
- Guidance on contract types and legal basics
- Overview of income levels and cost of living in Ireland
- Validation and recognition of international qualifications
- Practical tips and life hacks for relocation: housing, transport, education
5. Interview, Negotiation & Growth Mentoring
- Preparation for multi-stage interviews (intro, behavioural, technical, managerial)
- Interview simulations in professional English with personalised feedback
- Salary and benefits negotiation before and after the offer
- Career growth coaching from first role to leadership
- Voice coaching and confidence building for interviews
6. Skills Growth & Resilience
- Development of strengths and transferable skills
- Emotional intelligence training and stress resilience
- Time management and productivity coaching
- Adapting to new work environments and hybrid models
- Building autonomy, delegation skills, and a leadership mindset
7. Networking, Negotiation & Professional Relationships
- Building a professional network online and offline
- Community, event, and sector-group based networking strategies
- Negotiation techniques for promotions, benefits, and career transitions
- Interpersonal communication and professional etiquette
8. International & Expat Consulting
- Mentoring for relocation and work adaptation abroad
- Understanding Irish corporate culture and local communication styles
- Networking strategies for the Irish and European job market
- Support for family relocation and social integration
9. Continuous Growth & Leadership
- Long-term career development and succession planning
- Upskilling programmes and continuous professional development paths
- Transitioning from specialist to manager or executive roles
- Aligning career choices with personal values and lifestyle
How it works
All sessions are 60 minutes and delivered online. Sessions can be weekly or bi-weekly. Scheduling is flexible and agreed around your goals, needs and availability. If you relocate to Ireland, you can opt-in for remaining sessions in person in Dublin or continue online.
Every programme is unique and the exact number of sessions may vary based on your goals, target roles, experience, needs. But you will always be free to continue or end the coaching and mentoring relationship.
Tools & Assessments
We have hundreds of tools, resources and exercises that boost our clients career journey from dreaming to designing and building the professional life they desire. Depending on where you are and what you want to achieve we invite clients to consider using the most appropriate tools. Exercises or assessments are entirely optional and offered simply as a support for reflection and clarity. You’re free to explore them in any way that feels right for you: fully, partially, or not at all. It’s an invitation to reflect in a more structure way and there is no expectations for anyone to feel committed to them.
Credentials & Professional Standards
Our coaches are qualified professionals accredited by ICF (International Coaching Federation), EMCC (European Mentoring and Coaching Council) and/or similar globally recognised organisations for professional coaching. We are committed to maintaining the highest ethical and methodological standards in supporting every client through their development and change journey.
Daniele is an ICF-ACC accredited coach, member of the Scrum Alliance (CSM), the Irish Team Coaching Circle, and PMI AgileAlliance. Before founding DADAKAI, he built over 20 years of experience in leadership, talent selection and development, and career growth across multiple industries and sectors. He has previously worked as a Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect, CTO, and Engineering Manager, leading hiring processes, performance evaluations, and HR, training, and people development initiatives. He has worked in finance, med-tech, legal, and organisations of all sizes, from innovative startups to large enterprises including S3, Escher, Mastercard/IBM Joint Venture, and Aruba.
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