Day 1 to Day 3: May 15-17 (non-residential) - Two Certifications

JOB & CAREER DEVELOPMENT COACH (JCDC)

This certificate is designed for Human Resource Specialists, Career Coaches and Career Counselors who help Employees Development within their Organisations and Careers.

JOB & CAREER TRANSITION COACH (JCTC) 

This certificate is designed for Career Advisors and Career Coaches who help individuals make the Transition from College to Work or to change Jobs or Careers.

• The Composition and Configuration of Jobs, and Career Paths in The 21st Century

• The Importance and Impact of Emotions on Job and Career Transitions

• Career Assessment Tools

  • Prioritizing Career Values

  • Identifying Transferable Skills

  • Identifying and Understanding Motivation

  • Understanding Work and Management Style

  • Assessing Career Interests

  • Organizing Assessment Results

• Job and Career Exploration

  • How to Use Libraries and The Internet

  • Field Research Rather Than Information Interviews

  • Building a Personal Network

  • Using Networking to Obtain Referrals and Interviews

  • Rewarding Your Contact

• How to Focus on an Immediate Job Objective or a Long-Term Career Goal

  • Matching Skills and Motivation With Tasks

  • Matching Stules with Managers and Peers

  • Matching Career Values with Organisational Values

  • Hands-on Practice in Goals Setting

• Building and managing a Job Development or career strategy plan

• Hands-On Practice of Coaching Techniques

  • The Coach as ASSESSOR

  • The Coach as INFORMATION PROVIDER

  • The Coach as REFERRAL AGENT

  • The Coach as GUIDE

  • The Coach as TUTOR

• Techniques to Get Both Job Search and Career Planning Clients Unstuck

• Introduction to Job Search Techniques

   

  • Networking Techniques

  • Resumes

  • Interviews

  • Salary Negotiation Techniques

Day 4 (May 19) One Workshop - Two Areas of Focus

1. Working With Clients Who Are Considering Self-Employment

As more and more career clients are considering the option of self-employment, it is important that their counselors and coaches have the tools and knowledge to give the clients accurate and constructive feedback on:

• The advantages and disadvantages of self-employment

• How personality fits with a variety of entrepreneurial roles

• How individuals’ backgrounds compare with the background of successful entrepreneurs

• Where to establish an office by investing little or no money • Identifying and targeting potential customers

• Developing a market niche and positioning the individual as an expert

• The four levels of marketing and selling services and products

• Spend less money on advertising and how to get free publicity for a business

• How to obtain “passive” income • Marketing the services of other professionals

• How to “mystery shop” potential competitors

• Setting fees and how to collect them

2. Building Your Own Private Career Coaching Business 

In addition to using the points listed above with their clients, these are also critical elements for the career practitioner who is starting or expanding a private career counseling practice. Consequently, many of the teaching examples used in the workshop presentations will be consistent with the entrepreneurial role of Career Coaches.

In addition to responding to the questions of the workshop attendees, the instructor will include the following case study presentations:

• (1) How to save a company money by providing career consulting services that will decrease employee turnover and 
• (2) How to save an organization money by providing career consulting services that revitalize “stagnated” employees

• The content of this workshop is based on the more than thirty years that the instructor: 

• Operated and managed a successful private career counseling practice

• Founded and managed a multi-office executive outplacement firm

• Established a model organizational career development program

• Provided career consulting services to dozens of Fortune 500 companies

• Served as an executive coach in the Silicon Valley

• Developed and marketed four popular career assessment instruments

This program is designed to give attendees an awareness of proven techniques to use with their clients who are considering self-employment or to build and expand their own career coaching/counseling/consulting business.