CCC Events
Event
- Title:
- Changing Dynamics of Career Counseling: From Vocational Choice to Career Management & Transition
- When:
- Oct. 23. 2009 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM
- Where:
- Northeastern University - Curry Room 435 - Boston
- Category:
- Professional Development Seminar
Description
THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELED.
Attendees will each receive a set of Richard Knowdell’s Motivated Skills cards AND a set of Career Values cards.
During the last 40 years, Richard Knowdell’s role as a career counselor and his view of career counseling have changed and evolved. In this presentation using lecture, demonstration, discussion and experiential exercises, Dick will trace his evolution through many roles, and share key points he has learned that he believes make career development professionals better equipped for the 21st Century.
Points to be covered:
• The Universality of Career Issues
• Similarities & Differences Between Counseling and Coaching
• What Career Counselors Need and do not Need to Know
• What Clients Need
• The Effectiveness of Group Counseling
• How to Work With Resistant Clients
• How to Carefully Examine How Test Results are Interpreted
• How to Effectively Limit Career Counseling to Four Sessions
• How to Effectively Use a Structured Model
• Focusing on the “Bottom Line”
Attend this day-long seminar and learn from a professional who has a tremendous body of information to share.
Trainer: Richard L. Knowdell, MS, NCC, NCCC, CCMF is the President of Career Research & Testing, Inc., and author of six books, including Building a Career Development Program: Nine Steps for Effective Implementation. In 1995, President Clinton appointed him to the Board of Examiners of the United States Foreign Service. He has developed four popular career assessment instruments that have been translated into nine languages. He is a past president of the California Career Development Association (CCDA) and the Silicon Valley Chapter of ACP International. Dick established one of the first successful Employee Career Development Programs at a national research and development laboratory, and has served as a consultant on employee career development to numerous Fortune 500 organizations and delivered presentations at human resource conferences in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and North America. He taught courses in employee career development to human resource managers at San Jose State University and career assessment techniques to professional career counselors at the University of California-San Diego. Over 500,000 of Knowdell’s career assessment card sort instruments have been sold and are used extensively with adults in university, social service, business, outplacement and private practice settings.(www.careertrainer.com)
THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELED.
Registration: Registration deadline is 3 weeks prior to the seminar date.
Registration fee through October 2nd: $155 Members; $185 Non-Members
Registration fee after October 2nd: $180 Members; $210 Non-Members
MEMBER ALERT! Make sure to log in FIRST to ensure you receive the member discount!
Venue
- Venue:
- Northeastern University - Curry Room 435 - Website
- Street:
- 360 Huntington Avenue
- ZIP:
- 02115
- City:
- Boston
- State:
- MA

