The Job Juggler course has a lot of great information that can help me guide my clients through the job search process.  For example, the motivation of reminding them the most successful job search strategies are not just looking for jobs in the classifieds or online, but actually knocking on employers doors, networking with friends and family, asking for jobs leads, and looking in the yellow pages.  People need to know what they want in life for a career. I can remind them that there are many career assessments available either online or at the local one stops, high schools or colleges.  Along with learning about their interests, finding a mentor, would be a good idea. The job juggler explains this quite nicely and gives a lot of information about mentoring programs. Job Juggler also suggests doing an informal interview with employers to learn more about the careers so that job seekers can make sure that it is the career they want to go into.  This is a very helpful section and I find it very useful for my clients.

 

Job Counselor 1, Private Industry Council

 Job Juggler has information explaining what employers most value in skills for their employees, the knowledge skills: planning, acquiring, searching and organizing.  This is good to know when creating resumes.  This is another area that the Job Juggler has great information and I shall use with my clients when creating resumes.  Job Juggler explains the three different types of resumes along with tips on when one would use the resumes and why one would use that resume.  Another great piece of information that Job Juggler informs us on is the portfolio.  That section is very informational and is very motivational for clients  who just recently graduated from college and are looking for employment.  I will be using this information for my recent graduates. The Job Juggler has a lot of informational tips for job searching/resume writing/interviewing.  It is a great resource for clients, job counselors, employers, and employees to use.  I would recommend the information I gained from this to all my clients and will continue to use the information while I work with my clients. 

Job Counselor 2, Private Industry Council

The Job Juggler e-course had made changes to my professional and personal life.   I find myself not only changing how I will work with clients and their job search strategies, but also my own resume and job searching.  Completing the learning program has been a very positive experience.

Job Juggler has given me some new teaching strategies as well as wonderful resources that I have not been aware of.  I will be creating a new website resource for my clients.  Currently, there is a sheet created for our clients that contain resources for job search.  I would like to change that form to also include the websites that can help with Resume writing, as well as the other resources that were brought to my attention through the coursework.  

Another change that I will follow up with, is creating an activity folder for clients.  I liked the process that was done in the course work.  I think it makes clients problem-solve for themselves and take more ownership in the job searching process.  I am very excited for the positive change that can occur.

Another teaching tool that I thought was helpful was the CLIMB used in teaching interview skills.  This word association will be great teaching tool. 

Something that will affect my clients and myself was the awareness of  using ASCII for creating resumes and sending them by email.  This was something I was not aware of , and  it will be a great asset.  It is a big concern that when you email a resume to an employer, that the format will change.  Everyone works hard on getting the format to the right structure, and you want to show that to future employers. This also keeps the professional image intact.

Another job searching tool, that will affect my clients and myself will be creating portfolios.  I really didn’t have an understanding of them until I completed this learning session.  Creating a portfolio can really set the job seeker apart from other job seekers.  I also work at a Career Center at a two year college and think this would be a great service we could provide like the college from Florida. 

I always felt that a person needs to keep their resume up to date.  After taking the Job Juggler course, I  find that I am excited to change my format.  I currently have Chronological format and will be changing it to a combination format, that will reflect my skills and accomplishment better.  The Job Juggler course made t he change easy by giving me an outline to start with, and I can adapt my resume from that template.

I have some changes I need to make in my professional and personal life due to the completion of the Job Juggler course.  I was not only given the reason for the changes but also the tools to make those changes successfully.

Job Counselor 3, Private Industry Council 

 

Great teleclass.  Dan provided some great insights in a clear and easy to understand way. name optional:  Lou Ballester

 

Excellent!  

 

Very interesting, organized and thought provoking. thank you, Constance Stevens

 

Daniel was very forthcoming and a wonderful guest. Sally, you've picked some great guests to interview. I've enjoyed them all. Daniel spun multiple theories together very well - Bolles, Krumboltz, Seligman, etc. - and simply, creatively, organizes the usefulness of each part of the 3-legged stool in the career process. I'm sure the success of the manga format will be quickly realized. I plan to buy it and pass it around to family members and clients.

Thank you for a great hour! Very enjoyable. Mary Lynne 

 

I enjoyed hearing quite a different perspective on career development topics with regard to the six lessons.  Some of which I heard ring true and others that provided me with a dimensional intent that inspires me to think out of the box.  The experience was well worth my time and very convenient.  Thank you. Bernadette Amato 

 

 

An excellent and insightful presentation by one of my favorite authors. Mr. Pink's conversation with us was engaging, energetic, refreshingly counterintuitive. To my way of thinking, that means it was right on! Thank you for providing this opportunity.  Barry Davs

 

I was quite excited to hear directly from Daniel Pink. I read "A Whole New Mind" last year and have always felt that creativity and looking at a problem from multiple viewpoints is generally more productive than  linear model. Still, I do think his ideas seem to be too simplistic and perhaps more media driven than content driven. I am intrigued by Pink's upcoming manga publication, "The Adventures of Johnny Bunco..." and hope that it has something solid to offer the younger generation with regard to career management.  I have a son almost 21 and two nephews in their 20's on whom I will "field test" the graphic novel. I do wish Dan had answered the second part of my question about "A Whole New Mind"--that is, if he re-wrote it in a R-brain manner, wouldn't it have more images and perhaps mind-mapping graphics rather than so much text?  I had other questions to ask about that book, but I'm glad Sally kept us focused on the building a business theme rather than going! off on another direction (which my questions would have done). This was WELL worth the time and effort, and I look forward to participating in other teleinterviews! Damona Sain

 

Helpful and thought provoking.

 

I found his discussion about "monga" /comic books in Japan, very interesting as was his"Six Key things or ideas" needed for a successful career." He's a good  speaker and his "personalization" made his discussion even more interesting and informative. I had heard him speak once before and had previously read one of his earlier books.You made a good choice!! Gil  Benjamin,MCC,NCCC 

 

 

 

Dr. Darrell Anthony Luzzo is the President of the National Career Development Association, a position he has held since August of 2007. He also serves as the President of Strategic Partnerships LLC, a for-profit company that provides fiscal and human resource solutions to large corporations, small businesses, non-profit organizations, foundations, and institutions of higher education. Dr. Luzzo obtained his bachelor’s degree in psychology and his master’s and doctorate degrees in education from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Dr. Luzzo's career includes executive-level assignments with JA Worldwide/Junior Achievement (2001-2007), National Career Assessment Services, Inc. (2000-2001), Mt. Hood Community College (1999-2001), and ACT, Inc. (1997-1999). Dr. Luzzo’s full-time and adjunct academic/teaching assignments with several colleges and universities have included Colorado State University, the University of Northern Colorado, the University of Iowa, Auburn University, Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi, the University of Northern Alabama, St. Ambrose University, and Johnson County Community College. Dr. Luzzo has operated a private career counseling practice and has assisted other career counselors in preparing to start their own private practice and consulting businesses. In addition to his service on the Board of the National Career Development Association, Dr. Luzzo has held active leadership positions in the American Education Research Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Counseling Association.

Dr. Luzzo’s particular expertise in career development and entrepreneurship includes the development of over a dozen new curriculum projects addressing the interrelated issues of career development, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy during his six year tenure at JA Worldwide. He is the author of over 60 refereed journal articles, editor of Career Counseling of College Students: An Empirical Guide to Strategies That Work (APA Books, 2000), and author of two college student development texts: Making Career Decisions That Count: A Practical Guide (Prentice Hall, 2008, 2002, 1997) and Overcoming the Hurdles to Academic Success: Strategies That Make a Difference (Houghton Mifflin, 2003).

Darrell and his wife, Tanya, live in Parker, Colorado, with their eight children.

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Welcome Ed.

I met Ed several years ago at National Career Development Association annual conferences. Both Ed and I have been very active in that association. Perhaps later Ed, you might want to talk about the value of being active in a professional association to help grow your private practice.

We had an instant rapport. We are both academics (like most NCDA members), who have taught at universities and earned doctorates in education. In addition, we are both innovative and entrepreneurial. As Membership Chair of NCDA, Ed introduced outstanding practices, such as giving graduate students and first year counselors a discount so they could afford to join the organization. He also recognized members who recruit new members in his "Each One, Reach One" campaign.

Ed, listeners would like to hear from you about starting and growing your private practice. In past tele-interviews, participants have expressed curiosity about very practical steps in become a successful private practitioner. They would like to know how to overcome challenges and generate sufficient income, which you addressed very clearly in your contribution to the NCDA Monograph, Starting and Growing a Business in the New Economy. Counselors can apply the exercise that Ed designed for the NCDA monograph to their own business. View his exercise on the CCA Tele-Interview website, which is also posted on the CCA website.
CCA website.

Could you tell us a little about your business, how you got it off the ground and how you grew it? I would encourage listeners to ask Ed questions throughout his interview.

Other questions (as time allows):

What value has writing books brought to your business? Do you earn income from your books? If so, what marketing strategies have you found to be effective in generating income?

What are your external sources of support? (both people and things)?

Do you have a board of advisors, either formally or informally?

What were and are now your internal sources of support?

Sally Gelardin, Ed.D., International & Multicultural Education

Overview and Rationale.
Making a transition can be difficult, whether its planned or unexpected, happy or sad (i.e., marriage or divorce, move, birth, death, award, layoff, graduation). The transition process can be managed most effectively if applied in the context of one's own life.

Icebreaker Exercise.
Share, with a parter or with your career advisor, some of your favorite childhood memories up to the age of ten. Include places, actions, people, visual memories, sounds, scents, and physical activities. If you are working with a partner, each person in pair has 4 minutes to share his or her memories. Later in this lesson, you will have an opportunity to write a poem that will include your early memories. You may be able to find sources of support to manage a current or future transition from these early memories.

Expected Participant Outcomes.

*to identify internal sources of support to help manage a career transition;
*to identify external sources of support to help manage a career transition.

Audience. This is an activity for career practitioners to use with clients from 16 years old on up.

Lecturette

Definition of Tranistion
A transition is an event or non-event that results in change. A transition is characterized by a change in roles, relationships and/or routines. An event is something that happens, such as getting married, having a child, getting a job. A non-event is something that you expected and wanted to happen, but it did not like not getting a promotion. an event or nonevent that results in change. (CDF Student Manual, Unit, pp. 20-22).

Severity of Transition
Four things determine the severity of a transition (Schlossberg, 1989): (a) situation, (b) self, (c) supports, and (d) strategies. By asking client questions about each thing separately, you and your client can understand more about the transition.

Sources of Support
Define external and internal sources of support. Draw chart. One column is Internal Sources of Support. Other column is External Sources of Support. Give examples based on Parisima Poem below (for poet of Parisima, internal source of support are the multi-senses; external sources of support are family, cultural traditions and social gatherings).

Activity
Write an "I Am From Poem" to discover what supports you have to make career and personal transitions. Include favorable memories from childhood. If you have time, include some current positive images in your life. You will not be required to share your poem with others, if you don't want to. Here is an example:

Parisima - A Holiday
by Carmen (a woman of Nicaraguan heritage whom I met on a plane ride on the way home from a conference).

To celebrate
The Immaculate conception
Patron of Nicaragua
Father had a beautiful alter.
Flowers smelled like heaven.
All the neighbors visited my house.
They brought apples from Costa Rica,
Chicha - a corn drink - pink, a little sour.
Mixed with sugarcane.
Vacatamales - like a tamale.
That was the best part of my life
When I was little.
It makes me feel that
I can be a child again.

Your "I Am From Poem"
On a piece of 8 ½ x 11 paper, write your own "I Am From" poem. fter participants have written poems (about 5 minutes), ask for volunteers to read their poems. Relate external and internal supports to poem.

Schlossberg's Transition Theory and its implications.
Use example from participants' poems or poem above. For example, in the poem above, Carmen likes her current job, but wants to change after the holidays. She wraps gifts in the gift-wrapping department of department store. She would like to go into sales. After looking at the poem that she composed, she said that she is artistic and likes designs and colors (internal resource). Referring to the festive holiday from her childhood, she said that she is social, likes to meet people and talk to people (external). Reflecting upon the poem reaffirmed her decision to discuss with her supervisor her desire to go into sales.

Assessment
On a blank sheet of paper, draw a chart, listing the external and internal sources of support found in your own poem. Some of these sources of support may be from your youth. Add other sources of support that you have developed over the years.

Summary
We used the poem to help chart internal and external supports. The next steps in Schlossberg's Transitions Theory would be to determine how to implement the transition goal, how to make maximum use of external and internal supports, and how to develop skills to overcome barriers.

Resources

Connelly, M. F. & Avis, J.( Summer, 2001). A model for counseling older workers and their families. Career Planning and Adult Development Journal. Richard L. Knowdell, Publisher. Sally D. Gelardin, Guest Editor. Volume 17 Number 2 (pp. 27-41).

English, F. (1998). Videotape: The forces within us. International Transactional Analysis Association 436 14th Street, Ste 1301, Oakland, CA 94612. Email: ITAA@ITAA-net.org.

Gelardin, S. (06). The Tightrope Model of Career Decision-Making. Keynote. SUNY CDO. Networking on the High Wire: Supporting Student Decision-Making with the Assistance of Parents and Technology. sal@jobjuggler.net

Gelardin, S. (2002). The Mother-Daughter Relationship: Activities for Promoting Lifework Success. CAPs Press. http://www.AskDrSal.com .

Gelardin, S. (2003-2006). The Job Juggler Employability Program. http://www.JobJuggler.net .

Harris-Bowlsbey, J. Suddarthy, B.H., and Reile, D.M. 2001 (revised first edition). Facilitating Career Development Student Manual. http://www.ncda.org

Schlossberg, N.K. & Robinson, s.P. (1996). Going to Plan B. new York, NY: Simon and Schuster, Inc.

Schlossberg, N. (1984). Counseling adults in transition, Linking practice with theory. Springer.

Sturdevant, K. (1998). The Laugh and Cry Movie Guide: Using movies to help yourself through life's changes. Lightspheres.


Attachment 1: Four things that determine severity of a transition

Attachment 2: Major groups of external supports

Attachment 3: Major groups of internal supports

Using Poetry Comments

New Client Questionnaire

Records

More Questions To Ask Clients

Recollections

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FAMILY CAREGIVING COUNSELOR TRAINING

25-Minute Presentation: Balancing Career, Caregiving, and Self-Care . 11:35 to Noon. Professional Businesswomen of California Conference. Sacramento. October 16, 2007.

1 hour: Balancing Caregiving, Career, and Self-Care for Counselors Western Regional Meeting, American Counseling Association, Saturday, November 10. Time TBA. Contact jim@cacounseling.org.

1-hour: Balancing Caregiving, Career, and Self-Care. International Career Development Association Roundtable Discussion, Sunday, November 11, 2007. Register here.

Completed Presentations: January - July, 2007

Introduction, Christner-Lile, D. (2006). Aging in Place: Safely living in your "Home Sweet Home" until you're 100 Plus.

Chapter 27,  "Staying Current:  Using Cybertools To Reach More Students" (Gelardin & Harryman, 2008) in 21st Century School Counseling (Allen, J. 2008).

Contribution, Kiernan, B. (2007). Behind the School Wall. 2nd Edition. Website, BJKiernan@ Gmail.com .

Contribution, The Complete Job Search Guide for Latinos (Mann, M.A. & Bombela-Tobias, M., 2005)

Cited numerous times in Family Matters:  The Influence of the Family in Career Decision Making (Chope, R., 2006).

The following questions are based on a presentation by Dr. Mark Savickas at the 2007 National Career Development Conference, Seattle, WA.



A. How can I be useful to you as you construct your career?

1. Whom do you admire? Who would you like to pattern your life after?

Who did you admire when you were growing up? Why?

How are you like _____?

How are you different from_____?

2. Do you read any magazines regularly? If so, which ones?

Why do you like these magazines?

How about TV? What shows do you really enjoy?

What is your favorite story line?

3. What do you like to do with your free time?

What are your hobbies?

What do you enjoy about these hobbies?

4. Do you have a favorite saying or motto?

Tell me a saying you remember hearing.

5. What are your three favorite subjects in junior high and high school? What subjects do you hate?

Why did you love _____, _____, and _____?

Why did you hate _____, _____, an _____?