For Career Counselors, Career Practitioners, Job Coaches & Academic Advisors
Looking for professional development for your staff or members of your Career Development Association?
We provide practical, holistic training in a variety of topics. Work with us to customize a training to fit your specific needs—from an intensive, one-day training to a set of sessions over several days. We can also provide online follow-up for our live, on-site, interactive professional development sessions.
Choose from career development training topics such as:
- Understanding Transitions
- Using Intentional Serendipity to Create Opportunities (Based on
Happenstance Theory) - The “magic of card sorts” using skills, values, passions, obstacles, majors, interest cards sorts
- Using the Holland Code theory to help clients and students choose college majors or careers
- LinkedIn training for content and strategy. The largest career database in the world.
- Creating a value-added resume
Contact us about scheduling your next career training event.
Past Conference Sessions
Some of our past presentations include:
- What do you want to be when you grow up, is the wrong question. (Challenge card workshop)
- Happenstance Happens: How We Can Help Our Clients Choose Majors or Occupations Using Happenstance
- Helping Clients Navigate Their Transitions
- The Magic of Card Sorts in Career Advising
- Can an ENFP Be a Forester?
- How to Choose a Major by Accident
- Using Career Assessments to Help Clients Choose a Career or Major
- Understanding How Career Development is Connected to Academic Advising
- Career Advising Case Studies: Solving the Case
- An Introduction to the Holland Code. What works and what does not.
Clients
Past recipients of our training, consulting, and speaking:
- National Career Development Association
- National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) and NACADA Region 1
- Mid-Atlantic Career Counseling Association
- Maine Community College System
- New England Educational Opportunity Association (NEOA)
- New Hampshire Colleges and Universities Consortium
- Minnesota Career Development Association
- Wisconsin Career Development Association
- Rhode Island Career Development Association
- Johnson State College in Vermont
- Maine Educational Opportunity Association
- Maine Adult Education Association
- Maine Career Development Association (MCDA)
- Vermont regional group@ Green Mountain College
- MELMAC Education Foundation grant awardees
- TRIO Regional Conference
Are you looking for an interactive, practical, and fun workshop to motivate your group?
Jim’s seminars are unique and a great way to receive training (which includes interaction with other participants); without ever leaving your desk! Jim is knowledgeable, passionate about helping people with career related needs and his classes are well organized and very valuable. I have completed his Happenstance and Transition Theory seminars and both were very informative and convenient! With his seminars, you gain practical, useful information in a short period of time.
