Career Strategist Certificate

Career Strategist Certificate

Issued by College of the Canyons

The Career Strategist Certificate trains students to develop the skills needed to gain an accurate understanding of their strengths, interests, abilities and work values. Students also develop the skills to combine personal characteristics with career information to improve their skills at seeking, obtaining, maintaining and changing jobs. Each related course is designed and taught by a career counselor to improve the career development competencies required for strategic career decision making.

Skills

Earning Criteria

  • NC.CSKL 009 | Personalized Career Planning | This course focuses on the assessment of individuals’ strengths, interests, values, personality and abilities in the context of career and education planning. Students will improve decision-making skills by exploring their own decision making styles and applying specific decision-making models to their career planning process.
  • NC.CSKL 010 | Strategic Job Search | This class is designed to help students develop and implement a strategic career and job search plan. Students will learn about sources of occupational information and how to utilize this information in the career planning and job search process.
  • NC.CSKL 011 | LinkedIn for Business | Participants learn how to effectively utilize LinkedIn, the world’s most popular business-oriented social media networking platform, to develop business through relationship marketing.  Students will learn techniques for optimization of company profile, development of content that engages a target audience, building a professional brand, and marketing a company.