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Career Development Facilitator Workshop (Combined Face-to-Face and Internet Delivery) with Roberta Floyd & Sally Gelardin (120 Continuing Education Hours)


Workshop Content

The NCDA Career Development Facilitator (CDF) Training is a 120-hour instructional program designed for individuals who assist others with career development. The training has value to both front-line personnel and program administrators in a variety of settings. The course content includes:

  • Labor Market Information and Resources (including the Internet)
  • Career Planning Process
  • Basic Helping and Facilitating Skills
  • Career Development Models and Theories
  • Job Search Techniques
  • Informal and Formal Assessment Approaches
  • Diversity and Special Population Needs
  • Developing Portfolios
  • Developing an Effective Career Resource Center
  • Case Management and Referral Skills
  • Ethical and Scope of Practice Issues
  • Using the Internet in Career Facilitation

Upon completion, graduates are eligible for global
certification through the Center for Credentialing and
Education (CCE) (www.cce-global.org)


Training Locations/Dates

  • Seven (7) one-hour teleclasses
    • April 29, 2009
    • May 20, 2009
    • June 17, 2009
    • July 22, 2009
    • August 26, 2009
    • September 30, 2009
    • October 21, 2009
  • Face-to-Face Classes:
    May 6-7-8, 2009 and November 9-10, 2009 in San Jose, CA Area.
  • And weekly assignments totalling 80 Hours

Fee: $1,950

About The Trainers — Roberta Floyd & Sally Gelardin

Bobbi Floyd, MA, NCC, NCCC, LPC, is a past president of the National Employment Counseling Association (NECA) and has over twenty years of experience as Coordinator of Career Counseling in Employment and Training Programs. She was a member of the Career Development Training Institute team at Oakland University that developed the Career Development Facilitator Curriculum and produced Workforce in Transition: A Blueprint for Adult Career Development and Job Search Training. She currently works as a counselor at Oakland Community College.

Sally Gelardin, Ed.D., NCC, JCTC, DCC is the author of Mother-Daughter Relationship:Activities for Promoting Lifework Success and Editor of Starting and Growing a Business in the New Economy. She served as Guest Editor of the Career Planning and Adult Development Journal. She is a past president of the California Career Development Association (CCDA) and an active member of the National Career Development Association (NCDA) and the American Counseling Association (ACA). She developed and runs The Job Juggler’s distance-delivered Job Search Practitioner Certificate Program and produces Entrepreneur Kits with carefully selected and highly rated products developed by leading career professionals for career practitioners, entrepreneurs, and family businesses.

Registration Information

Questions? Contact the instructors, Roberta Floyd at 248-357-2426, email rafloyd@earthlink.net or Sally Gelardin at 415-461-4097, email sal@jobjuggler.net



To register contact:
Richard L. Knowdell, Executive Director
Career Planning & Adult Development Network
P.O. Box 611930
San Jose, CA 95161-1930 USA
Tel: 408-272-3085
FAX: 408-272-8851
e-mail: rknowdell@mac.com

Download the 2009 Workshop Calendar (8 page flyer).