Concurrent Workshops
Track: Business and Industry/Military
Corporate Culture Intelligence
Wanda Jackson-Davis, Magna Opus, Northville, MI
Stephanie Williams, Magna Opus, Northville, MI
- Gain the know-how to maximize your career progression in a corporate environment. Receive practical tools and strategies to identify and navigate various corporate culture types. Learn the "five senses" of culture and the corporate culture/personal fit model for career growth.
Track: Diversity/Military
Cross Cultural Dimensions of a Career Transition
Mary Boss, MBoss International.com, White Bear Township, MN
- As career professionals work with increasingly diverse clients, an understanding of the cross-cultural dimension is key. To be effective, cross cultural insight and skill is crucial throughout the whole process, from career orientation to salary negotation. The session will include a combination of cross-cultural 'theory' with lively anecdotes from 20+ years of experience working with international clients.
Track: Colleges and Universities
Hi! I'm a Millennial Student-Athlete and I need your Help
Elke Hardt Arnold, SMU Hegi Family Career Development Center, Dallas, TX
- Career centers and athletic departments have reached out to collegiate student-athletes in various ways over the years, to assist them with life after college and sport. Certainly many programs have been extremely effective, but are there innovative ways to reach this unique, Millennial Student-Athlete population? Let’s get together to chat about how we can "shape their future"!
Track: Colleges and Universities
Los Angeles Valley College Job Shadowing Program
Synthia Saltoun, Los Angeles Valley College, ValleyGlen, CA
Denise Grzesiak, Los Angeles Valley College, ValleyGlen, CA
Clive Gordon, Los Angeles Valley College, ValleyGlen, CA
- Los Angeles Valley College's Career/Transfer Center has partnered with Junior Achievement to design a very popular job shadowing program that targets students who are undecided as to their majors and or careers. Learn the nuts and bolts of the program and walk away with the ability to duplicate this program in your setting.
Track: AssessmentMilitary
Make the Right Career Decision—Let Your Values Guide the Way
Liz Mohler, Liz Mohler & Associates, Playa del Rey, CA
Cathy Severson, Passport to Purpose, Thousand Oaks, CA
- Participants shift paradigms about the career decision making process and learn new ways to coach those in transition. The importance of values based decision making in career exploration and a tool to identify their top 5 values will be provided. The concept of a “Taxi” job and a system for charting potential satisfaction levels of different careers will be introduced.
Track: Diversity/Colleges and Universities
My parents want me to be a doctor, but I want to be an artist! Multicultural considerations for South Asians in career counseling
Avisha Chugani, San Francisco, CA
- Counselors must begin to understand the many different collectivist values that South Asian students bring to counseling in order to guide students in achieving a balance between the demands of their culture and their individual interests. This workshop serves to enhance counselor competency through case studies and informational resources.
Track: Coaching/Military
Retired But Not Retiring or "I'm too Young to Stop Working"
Renee Rosenberg, The Retirementutor, NY, NY
- "I’m retiring, what do I do now?" Career counselors are seeing more clients facing the retirement question, “I'm still active and energetic, but who will hire me?" Working with "young" retirees we need to redirect our approach. The author of "Achieving the Good Life after 50" takes you on a journey of discovery geared to retirement and life after 50.
Track: Private Practice
Short-term Career Counseling
Judy Kaplan Baron, Judy Kaplan Baron Associates, San Diego, CA
- When limited to just one session with a client, how do you make the most of it? In this workshop you'll learn a successful strategy which generates a great deal of useful information in a short period of time. You'll also have an opportunity to watch a Master Career Counselor with years of experience role-play the session.
Track: Government/Military
Troops to Work…Increasing the Speed to Employment for our Returning Military and their Families
Amy Ruddell, Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA
Jenni Helfrich, Sacramento State University, Sacramento, CA
Jeff Weston, CSU, Sacramento, CA
Angelo Biasi, National Business Services Alliance, New York, NY
- Sacramento State University offers a progressive online opportunity for Veterans and Veteran Spouses, with 85 diverse Occupational Certifications. The Job Training Readiness program fulfills the need for: Advising, Transferable Skills Analysis, Training and Certification. Learn how the JRT Program model works for a variety of Job Seekers: Military and Military Spouses, Welfare to Work, Individuals with Disabilities, Foster Care Youth and more.
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