Career Development
NEW & IMPROVED!
AC3: Assessment Component to Career Counseling
This 10-week live, interactive weekly workshop series using Zoom will explain an innovative employment counselling model that will help you assist your clients with their job search, career development and educational decision making and job maintenance challenges using a client-centred approach. Each week a different element of the framework will be covered and practiced. By the end of our 10 weeks together, you will feel comfortable using the model and techniques with your clients. Your facilitators will help you along the way.
We will be covering the job loss cycle, foundational and advanced employment counselling skills, the four employability dimensions, along with the four phases and 12 steps of the Assessment Component of Career Counselling Model. You will be provided with the reading material and visual aids each week in preparation for each 90 minute session.
Your facilitators Larry Koschok and Sandra Summerhayes bring over 25 years of experience in Employment Counselling and Training. For more information or to register, please email sandrasummerhayes@gmail.com or call (905) 650-6449 or visit our website.
$995+HST per person
Early Bird Discount – register by December 22nd, 2022 and receive $150 off.
LIVE VIRTUAL CERTIFICATE SERIES
February 6 to April 24, 2023 (excluding Family Day and Easter Monday)
Each Monday from 10am to 11:30am Eastern Time
The Employment Counsellor’s Toolkit
This 4-week live, interactive, virtual program will focus on creative, relevant and practical tools you can use in 4 phases of employment counselling to enhance your employment counselling sessions.
- Understanding the Story: Where is my client right now?
In this phase, we will review assumptions & values, mattering & bridging, metaphors, planned happenstance, storytelling
- Exploring the Possibilities: Where does my client want to be?
In this phase we will review the centric model, reframing strategies, moments of movement, career myths, self-awareness
- Mapping the Journey: How do I assist my client in getting there?
In this module, we will review decision making strategies, learning strategies, positive uncertainty, career paradoxes - Launching the Plan: How will my client and I know when we have arrived?
In this phase, we will review action planning, challenging myths, self management, transfer of learning
Career Choices for Your Personality Type
Research suggests we can probably find our niche in almost any type of occupation or organization and we are usually happiest in our careers when our jobs within our organizations reflect our personal style. It boosts professional fulfilment when our job is in line with your attitude, values, and preferences.
Using tools like DISC©, MBTI® or Personality Dimensions® and the Employability Skills Profile 2000+, you will explore what the most important elements are for you to achieve job fulfillment as well as what skills Canadian employers have identified that will make you even more successful at work.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the session, you will understand:
- Your personal style and how it might impact your job fulfillment
- Occupations that may suit your style
- Steps and strategies to move towards your career goal
Career Coaching
Whether you are ready to move up the ladder with your current company, are in the process of job searching or are interested in a career change, we will work with you to ensure you are set up for success as you venture your professional path. If you’re unsure of how to navigate your pending career transition, we provide resources and coaching to help guide you through the process in a tailored and seamless way. For those who have not yet found the job they look forward to every day, we have the resources and expertise to help you gain a better understanding of yourself and the kind of work that will make you the happiest. Whatever stage you find yourself in your job search or career, our goal is to get you to the next step with confidence. We will design a customized action plan tailored for you to meet your personal and professional goals.
Pre-employment Workshops
For unemployed individuals ready to enter or re-enter the workforce, our pre-employment workshops are an excellent tool for obtaining and maintaining employment. We provide seminars to provide an understanding of the current labour market and the fast-paced world of work. We place substantial importance on self-awareness – our clients will be encouraged to identify their top values, skills, personal style and interests to help them choose a job that is suited to them. In addition to learning customer service skills and how to work effectively with others, individuals will also have the opportunity to develop and practice interviewing skills.