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Career Management Certification System
Tracks for Success
The CMCS course includes nine comprehensive and distinct modules designed to prepare students with the knowledge and skills necessary to deliver professional career services with confidence. Each session will give students real-world skills, practical knowledge and a unique understanding of how to help clients navigate critical career decisions.
Career Management Certification System Modules
I. STRATEGIC CAREER MANAGEMENT
Students will gain a historical perspective of career management and understand generational changes and how occupations have evolved to keep pace with changing demographics.
Topics Covered:
Historical Perspective, Career Development Principles and Theories Career Management Profession, Career Management Functions, and External Environment.
II. HUMAN ENGAGEMENT
This module covers career differences among diverse populations related to gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, economics, and physical and mental capacities, and how to select career coaching approaches, techniques, and resources applicable to specific populations.
Topics Covered:
Change Management, Adult Learning and Development, Decision Making, Coaching Process, Client Management, Technology and Diversity.
III. EXPLORATION
How do we uncover what people really want in their career? Instructors will teach you how to select and administer assessments to gain a holistic view of clients, including attitude, interests, behavior, values, and personality traits to generate occupational choices that fit the client’s ideal profile.
Topics Covered:
Intensive Exploration, Assessment Basics, Assessment Process, Assessment Application and Occupational Systems
IV. ALIGNMENT
You will learn how to identify and use sources of information and connect individuals with data and resources pertinent to occupational choice – as well as discover where to search for education, training, and employment resources that help individuals learn about various occupations, education, trends, compensation, and more.
Topics Covered:
Informational Resources, Technology Resources, Library Organization, Research & Application and Facilitate Decision-Making.
V. PLANNING
People make career decisions every day. They don’t often appear to be major decisions at the time, but the long-term impact of these decisions is huge. This module covers creating a career road map and provides the techniques for analyzing competencies, deciding on learning outcomes, and strategizing to encourage change.
Topics Covered:
Competency Basics, Competency Modeling, Facilitating Change and Road Map Design.
VI. BRANDING
You’ll learn techniques to help in defining and positioning clients, segmenting the market for job search plans, and assessing job specifications to design winning interview strategies — including using social media and web 2.0 technologies to build personal brand awareness.
Topics Covered:
(Personal) Marketing Basics, Promotional Communications, Interview Strategy & Design, and (Job Market and Company) Segmentation.
VII. IMPLEMENTATION
Students will learn how to use a repeatable process to shorten the time it takes for clients to achieve their career goals, build the networking resources they need, and know what to expect at every point during the launch. You’ll also learn the six career launch strategies you need to help clients maximize their success.
Topics Covered:
Networking Protocol, Goal Alignment, Compensation & Negotiation, Resilience Planning, and Project Management.
VIII. ORGANIZATIONAL CAREER STRATEGIES
Students will learn organizational career strategies that work — basic fundamentals about workplace structure and hierarchy and how they impact internal career development initiatives. Students will explore the basics of planning and delivering an outplacement workshop and establishing and operating an internal career center to encourage employee development.
Topics Covered:
Workplace Career Management, Career Lattice, Outplacement Strategies, Establishing a Career Center, and Budget.
IX. ETHICS & BENCHMARKS
This module explores ethical tenets, as well as ethical decision-making models in career management. Students will be challenged to consider their personal work philosophy — and understand how it applies to coaching situations.
Topics Covered:
Policies & Laws, Key Performance Indicators, Corrective Measures, and Advocacy.
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For more information, contact Melissa Fey at 512-342-4111 or melissaf@seupec.com
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