What Does Career Coaching Actually Cost?

Three factors explain most of the price difference between providers: scope (a single session versus multi-month support), the coach's background (a certified systemic coach versus a practitioner with hiring-manager experience), and funding (paid privately or subsidized through a German employment agency voucher, the AVGS).

A single coaching session usually falls between €150 and €300. Multi-month programs with ongoing support commonly sit in the mid to upper four-figure range. AVGS-funded offers can even be free for you as the job seeker, but you need a valid voucher and a provider with AZAV accreditation, which narrows the field considerably.

The price alone tells you little as long as the scope stays vague. Two €1,500 packages can cover completely different things: one might be a single document review, the other weekly support over several months including interview prep and salary negotiation.

So ask directly: how many sessions or weeks are included? Are documents written once, or adapted per application? Is interview prep part of the package or a separate line item? What happens if you're not done once the term ends?

There are two packages with a fixed term, no subscription and no mandatory step in front of them. I deliberately don't quote a flat price here: it depends on how many things are open in your case, and gets set for your actual situation in conversation, not guessed at.

Get interviews runs 6 weeks: strategy session, your CV rewritten by me, a LinkedIn review, a weekly check-in, and unlimited message support. Get the job runs 3 months: on top of that, interview preparation with a mock interview, salary negotiation sparring, and rejection analysis. Both include seven digital products. If you move up within 30 days, you only pay the difference to the agreed package price. Both packages can be paid in installments, and the terms are identical in German and English.

Not everyone needs multi-month support right away. If you're stuck on one specific point, there is LinkedIn profile optimization for €149 as the only standalone service: an audit plus finished copy for headline, About, and experience, without committing you for weeks. Everything else now sits inside the two packages or the twelve digital products.

Whether a package or a single service makes more sense depends less on budget than on how many things are open at once. The full breakdown of when coaching actually pays for itself lives in "Does Career Coaching Make Sense as an Expat?" and in the German-language article on whether coaching is worth it.

Three patterns show up in this market more often than they should: per-application fees that only surface after you've signed, subscription models with automatic renewal instead of a fixed term, and programs that end abruptly once the clock runs out, regardless of whether your search actually succeeded.

Ask about all three directly in your first conversation. A credible provider will answer without hedging. With me, the answer is already here: fixed packages with no automatic renewal, monthly renewal only if you choose it, no hidden per-application fees.

Yes, but only through a specific route: if you hold a valid AVGS voucher (Aktivierungs- und Vermittlungsgutschein) issued by the Agentur für Arbeit or a Jobcenter, and the coaching provider is AZAV-accredited, the session or program itself costs you nothing directly, the cost is covered by the voucher.

That accreditation requirement narrows the market considerably, since AZAV certification takes on real bureaucratic overhead that most independent coaches don't take on. If a provider claims to accept AVGS vouchers without holding AZAV accreditation themselves, ask to see it before assuming the coaching is actually free.