Workshop Content

• 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 to be arranged
• Face-to-Face Workshops:
  May 8-9, 2008 in San Jose, CA AND November 12-13-14, 2008 in Los Angeles.
  
• And weekly assignments totalling 80 Hours
  

Fee: $1,950

• May 7-8-9, 2008 - San Jose, California Area (Milpitas)
  • Workshop Venue:
    Sobrato Center for Nonprofits
    600 Valley Way
    Milpitas, CA 95035
    • Nearby Hotel:
      Best Western Brookside Inn
      400 Valley Way, Milpitas, CA 95035
      408-263-5566; $99 per night (includes full breakfast)
      
    • This workshop is 10 miles from the San Jose Silicon Valley Airport.
• November 10-11, 2008 - Southern California Area
  • Workshop Venue:
    Radisson Hotel at Los Angeles Airport
    6225 West Century Blvd at Sepulveda
    Los Angeles, CA 90010
    310-670-9000 or 800-333-3333; (Ask for Career Development Network rate) $109 per night
    
    • Airport LAX Complimentary Airport Shuttle
      
      

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.