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Facilitating Career Development
COURSE CONCEPT
As a career coach, you are likely to work with a variety of clients from a broad range of ages, backgrounds with a range of career issues, such as school students needing help with subject and tertiary institute selection, graduates who are seeking their first full-time job and job seeking skills support, those returning to the workforce who are unsure of their next step, individuals seeking promotion with strategizing career progression, and older adults wanting to downsize their work commitments.
The client has come to you as they are dissatisfied and seek a change in their career and life. Your role is to facilitate the career development process to assist clients in attaining their career goals.
Your work with clients will be client-centered, exhibiting attitudes of genuineness, empathy, and unconditional positive regard.
Demonstrating these attributes will have a positive effect on the quality of the client/practitioner relationship and the service that you provide.
The course will provide you with the strategies to enable you to provide high quality and client centred career coaching services.
AUDIENCE
For individuals seeking national course certification in career coaching, to expand and refresh career development knowledge and skills, or address specific gaps in their practice.
The course suits diverse roles and contexts, including workplace training and HR, psychology, employment services, recruitment, youth work, apprenticeships, disability/rehabilitation, case management, and management, to enhance client outcomes.
AIMS
- Facilitate career counselling-coaching with a client-centered approach to focus on the client’s needs
- Identify the range of clients that Career Development Practitioners assist and understand their specific needs and goals
- Apply the 4-step career development process of Self-Discovery, World of Work, Career Planning, Decision Making, and Job Seeking
- Understand and appreciate a client’s change process to implement change
- Apply counselling-coaching skills to your practice. Define the scope of Practice and work within client boundaries
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
- Assist clients in implementing change by applying two models and applying appropriate career development strategies at each stage. The models include:
- Bridges’ Transition Model of Change
- Stages of Change, or Transtheoretical Model — James Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente
- Facilitate career development by applying counselling-coaching skills with clients and applying a client-centered approach
- Specify the qualities of a career development practitioner, self-evaluate, and undertake developmental action
- Discriminate between a client’s Presenting Problem and the core issue of the problem
- Define and apply Scope of Practice to work within client boundaries
- Apply counselling-coaching skills with clients during each session
- Facilitate career development by apply counselling-coaching skills with clients during each session including:
- Building rapport with clients
- Attending and listening to clients with non-verbal communication - SOLER listening technique
- Using silence appropriately when working with clients and communicating with people
- Reflecting and paraphrasing client stories
- Clarifying the client’s story, use questioning and summarising skills
- Focusing on the client and their problem/issue
- Providing constructive feedback to the client
- Working flexibly with clients to relate to their needs and transition from one perspective to another
- Maintaining confidentiality
- Applying a range of problem-solving and career decision making skills
- Using career resources during the session
- Manage conflict and communication breakdown with a client
- Demonstrate cultural awareness when working with clients and others
- Write and store client case notes and process notes in counselling
COURSE CONTENT
Understanding the range of clients and their individual needs and goals, namely, school students and school leavers, graduates, individuals returning to the workforce, individuals seeking to downsize their work commitments
- Building rapport
- Attending and listening skills, applying non-verbal - SOLER listening technique
- Use of silence
- Reflecting and paraphrasing
- Clarifying and the use of questions
- Focusing
- Summarising
- Giving feedback
- Flexibility
- Maintaining confidentiality
- Problem-Solving Skills
- Managing conflict
- Cultural awareness
- Applying career resources in the session
Professional Development
NATIONAL CERTIFICATE
Upon successfully finishing the complete course, students will receive a Certificate of Professional Development certified by Career Coaching and Training.
Students can also receive a Certificate of Professional Developmentfor each course they complete certified by Career Coaching and Training.
CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT POINTS
The time spent on each course of study may be claimed as continuing professional development (CPD) by CDAA members towards Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA) requirements.
Non-CDAA members, please check with your professional association regarding their CPD policy
To claim your CPD points, present your certificate of course completion to CDAA or the professional association where you are a member.
Facilitating Career Development
$397 per person Including GST
COST PER COURSE
