Career coaching involves guiding individuals in choosing careers and developing professional skills over their lifespan. A career coach helps clients identify their strengths and interests to accelerate career success. Coaching for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) is especially important as it is a highly responsible and challenging position that requires strong administrative abilities. An effective IAS coach understands the government structure and selects teaching methods to help students learn policies, procedures, and leadership skills for qualifying and performing well in the civil service.

1. Career Coaching
“Career” to an individual is the work and life roles over their
lifespan. As we know, the career is a course of successive
situations that make up a person’s work life, the word career
in the 20th century referenced the series of jobs or positions
by which one earned one’s money.
The career of a person describes the professional capabilities
of a worker. It includes all information about the person’s
education, working experience, publications, spoken
languages and other skills.
Since career plays a vital role in each person’s lifespan, there
should be an experts or a coach for the guidance. With the
help of career coach, it is easy to find out the edge that gives
you the focus and accelerates you towards your career
success. An efficient coach is one who can help you put on
the fast track to fulfilment and career success.

2. IAS Coaching
About Coaching
Coaching is the first step of success. It is a creative
process that promotes a candidate to maximize his
potential. It is an overall development of a candidate
both personal & professionally. In simple words, it is
an organization where both the candidate & the
Coach openly discuss with each other that enhance
the skills & creativity of the candidate.

3. IAS Coaching
Indian Administrative Service is one of the most powerful posts to be
held in India. It has powers at all levels in the government organization.
It is not limited only to District level. IAS is an attractive service with
name, fame & glamour. This premier service was constituted way back
in 1947. It is one of the highly reputed Civil Services in India.
IAS is not an easy job. As said earlier, IAS operates at different levels
such as Central, State & District. It is a very responsible position & needs
proper skills, support & an organized method of functioning. To be a
successful candidate for the position, Coaching is very important. The
Coach should be aware of the government structure & how an IAS
officer should be prepared to face the difficulties. There are many
institutions & training centers opened to do the needful. Candidates
willing to take up IAS exams can attain these classes. On-line coaching is
also made available where students are though by highly professional
coaches.

4. IAS Coaching Program
A coaching program helps students to understand better.
Taking an IAS exam not only requires skills & intelligence, a
candidate has to qualify for it. An IAS program has its own
procedures to be followed. A Coach must have complete
knowledge about the steps, procedures & the criteria
required by a candidate to take this challenge.

5. Teaching IAS
IAS is a government service that requires a student to know
how a Government organization works. Students must be
aware of the laws that are essential to be followed at all
levels as IAS is not related to any one departmental level.
Candidates are expected to know the policies, procedures,
government affairs, administration, law & order and how to
lead a team to achieve effective results.
A student can learn all these with the help of a Coach. A
coach is required to give a clear view on Government issues
& requirements so that it helps candidates in better
understanding of the structure. Training candidates in all the
fields of administration & law helps in attaining the goals &
also brings out the exceptional qualities in a candidate.

6. IAS Lesson Plan
• It is necessary to generate a lesson plan that guides a
candidate in evaluating his strengths & weakness. It
not only gives an idea to the students on how to
proceed but also prepares them for future challenges.
• The coach must decide in advance what & how he is
going to teach a student. Coach must be precise in
teaching so that candidates can understand easily. It is
important to follow a procedure in teaching so that it
doesn’t create confusions in the minds of the students.
A well prepared lesson plan acts as a guideline for the
candidates to follow not only at the time of teaching
but also for future references.

7. Basic Procedure
Like any other Civil service exam, IAS also has a procedure to
be followed by the candidates who wish to pursue their
dream of becoming an IAS officer. It is necessary for a Coach
to make students aware of the rules involved before taking
the examination like:
1 How to get an application
2 What is the syllabus prescribed by the law
3 Does it have any age limit
4 What is the eligibility criteria required for applying
5 How many times they can attempt for an exam.
6 How is the candidate selected.

8. UPSC – Union Public Service
Commission
Civil Services attaining quick importance in the Politics of the
Nation, British Government decided to set up a Commission
to review the recruitment services. First Public Commission
was brought into existence in 1926. However, due to its
limited functions this commission did not last long. This
commission could not satisfy the needs & aspirations of the
people. Hence a new Commission was constituted under
Indian act 1935. This new set up was called as Federal Public
Services, which for the first time made provisions for Public
Services at State & Central levels.

9. This autonomous body ensured unbiased
services that also protected the interests of the
people. Federal Public Services was finally
awarded a Constitutional Status & the name
was changed to Union Public Services
Commission.
Today IAS exams are conducted successfully
under effective supervision of UPSC. UPSC
decides on examination pattern, syllabus,
criteria requirements, Eligibility 7 also the dates
& place of Examination.

10. Some of the areas where career
assessment is done are:
Methodology Attributes