Date: 2014-01-19
Place: professional social media LinkedIn
Language: English
Errors:
of course, this is not a professional research, but the fact that it shows huge differences between countries, and the results reflect some correlated largely accepted truths about each nations made me think it could be an useful information for coaching community.
(and, no!, "coach" has not the meaning "carriage" in these announcements :) )
Coaching is an activity aiming to be recognized as a profession. I thought would be interesting to know how much is this visible in the recruiting area, using this simple "search".
I gathered a draft information about the numbers of jobs which have in their title the word ”coach” as an indicator of the penetration of the coaching activity in work culture, i.e. awareness of benefits for professional life, and - giving the fact that any professional coaching improves life-work balance – it could provide valuable insights about the degree of acknowledging coaching as one of the main tools for a quality social culture, and for progress, as a specific national endeavor.
The results were: the biggest number of announcement are in UK - over 1763, far over the next country Netherlands – 447. Three country are quite close: Belgium 262, Germany 228, Ireland 196.
But, comparing with each country population, Luxemburg offers the biggest number of "coach" related jobs, followed by Ireland, UK, Netherlands, Belgium.
The majority of positions has the word ”coach” in the job descriptions and
are posted by worldwide corporations. Only in UK, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands and Germany – in this order - there are coach position announcements.
It is obvious that coaching culture fits the Saxon culture more then Latin one: France, Italy, Spain, Portugal have quite few announcements, and Belgium, with its high level in hiring coaching professionals, has mixed culture – both Saxon and Latin, and, very important, has the headquarters of EU. The top coaching skills employer, Luxembourg, is mainly Saxon too, but I think that its banking industry makes the difference in the understanding coaching as an essential tool in exploring and taking decisions.
In terms of GDP there isn't a correlation, but we must notice that Luxembourg has the biggest level.(see the site quoted bellow)
The work markets in the former communist countries are less interested in hiring ”coach” related professionals.This reflects the slow change from control management to delegating processes, and the embrace of a culture of learning and empowerment in the working place; it also reflects lack of personal self-management, lack of awareness and responsibility, and, unfortunately, a still strong habit of waiting and follow a directive all-mighty leader, i.e. lack of involvement and creativity at work - and, ultimately, lack of happiness!
As for the bottom of the list, Romania is not the last: both in terms of number of announcements, and ratio related to population, it shares quite the same level as all former communist countries.
The situation could worsen further given the steady decrease in quality of the national educational system: coaching is a learning approach to grow, and is difficult to be embraced by people who have a real habit in devalue and disrespect learning.
But to be noted: none of the jobs in Romania has the title „coach”, but the term appears only in job description, as: Provide mentoring and coaching to the team members; Coach the program managers on: partner set-up, incentive offerings support, activity support, claim support, business controls support; benefit of training and coaching sessions with managers, etc.
I must thoroughly highlight that ”to coach” appears as a key requirement or as a key benefit in all job descriptions.
|
Countries
|
Ratio
Announcement per Milion
|
"coach"
|
People Milion
|
1
|
Austria
|
2.6
|
22.00
|
8.40
|
2
|
Belgium
|
23.6
|
262.00
|
11.10
|
3
|
Bulgaria
|
1.4
|
10.00
|
7.20
|
4
|
Croatia
|
0.0
|
0.00
|
4.20
|
5
|
Cyprus
|
0.0
|
0.00
|
0.80
|
6
|
Czech Republic
|
2.7
|
28.00
|
10.50
|
7
|
Denmark
|
10.4
|
58.00
|
5.60
|
8
|
Estonia
|
0.8
|
1.00
|
1.30
|
9
|
Finland
|
0.0
|
0.00
|
5.40
|
10
|
France
|
1.5
|
98.00
|
65.60
|
11
|
Germany
|
2.8
|
228.00
|
80.50
|
12
|
Greece
|
0.5
|
6.00
|
11.00
|
13
|
Hungary
|
2.7
|
27.00
|
9.90
|
14
|
Republic of Ireland
|
43.6
|
196.00
|
4.50
|
15
|
Italy
|
0.9
|
55.00
|
59.60
|
16
|
Latvia
|
0.0
|
0.00
|
2.00
|
17
|
Lithuania
|
0.0
|
0.00
|
2.90
|
18
|
Luxembourg
|
60.0
|
30.00
|
0.50
|
19
|
Malta
|
5.0
|
2.00
|
0.40
|
20
|
Netherlands
|
26.8
|
447.00
|
16.70
|
21
|
Poland
|
1.4
|
55.00
|
38.50
|
22
|
Portugal
|
0.9
|
9.00
|
10.40
|
23
|
Romania
|
1.7
|
34.00
|
20.00
|
24
|
Slovakia
|
0.0
|
0.00
|
5.40
|
25
|
Slovenia
|
0.0
|
0.00
|
2.00
|
26
|
Spain
|
1.4
|
64.00
|
46.70
|
27
|
Sweden
|
5.1
|
48.00
|
9.50
|
28
|
United Kingdom
|
27.7
|
1763.00
|
63.70
|
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