Topics Covered

• Conducting Coaching Over The Internet and by Telephone
  
• Becoming Familiar with Effective online Career Assessment Tools
  
• Conducting Job Search and Career Exploration over the Internet
  
• Building and Managing a Career Strategy Plan Online
  
• Teaching Resume Writing and Interviewing Online
  
• Guiding and Tutoring Clients Online and by Telephone
  
• Teaching Salary Negotiation Online and by Telephone
  
• Providing Information Online and by Telephone
  
• Giving Assessment Feedback Online and by Telephone


Distance Component: Six One-Hour Teleclasses 

Demonstration of learning outcomes.

• Complete three online career assessment instruments.
  
• Perform online and field research.
  
• Complete an online employability e-course and read practitioner manual.
  
• Create a Job and Career Transition Coach hard copy and electronic Portfolio.
  
• Apply distance coaching skills with a "client."
  
• Participate in six one-hour teleclasses.
  
  
  Face-to-Face Workshop Component
  14 hours in-person training
• Who Should Attend This Workshop?
  Any professional who has the responsibility of providing distance counseling, guiding, advising, coaching, or training in job search and or carer planning activities. Most participants hold bachelors degrees and some hold advanced degrees. Formal counselling training is not required.
  
  Workshop Content
  Content: Skills and knowledge that will help coaches use the Internet and telephone to facilitate and guide clients to make successful short-term job transitions and long term career transitions.
  
  CEUs
  20 continuing education hours:  6 hours distance delivered, 14 hours classroom

• DJCTC Planning
  
  About The Trainer
  SALLY GELARDIN, Ed.D., NCC, JCTC, DCC is the author of The Mother-Daughter Relationship: Activities for Promoting Lifework Success and Editor of Starting and Growing a Business in the New Economy. She serves as Guest Editor of the Career Planning and Adult Development Journal. She is a past president of the California Career Development Association (CCDA) and an active member of the National Career Development Association (NCDA) and the American Counseling Association (ACA). She developed and runs The Job Juggler's distance-delivered Job Search Practitioner Certificate Program and produces Entrepreneur Kits with carefully selected and highly rated products developed by leading career professionals for career practitioners, entrepreneurs, and family businesses.
  
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What are the advantages and challenges of distance job and career transition coaching?

Both client and coach can save on travel time and expenses, whether they communicate in real time or at different times.

Since client and coach depend more on written word, they must present their thoughts carefully on the Internet.

Clients may prefer to share more in an distance relationship than they would in a face-to-face (F2F) setting.

How can Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches incorporate distance coaching in their work?

Help clients organize their career development process by setting up electronic portfolios.

Administer online self-assessment instruments for clients and help them interpret results.

Guide clients in performing field research through distance modalities.

Help clients enhance their job search and employability skills through distance modalities.

Guide clients in managing their web presence.

Practice "netiquette" (Internet etiquette), as well as distance coaching ethical and legal standards).

What competencies will be addressed during the training?

Job and Career Exploration

Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches can identify relevant distance delivered research and resources.
1. How to Use Libraries and The Internet
2. Field Research Rather Than Information Interviews
3. Using Networking to Obtain Information, Ideas, Referrals and Interviews

Distance Coaching Process

Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches can apply a distance-delivered career development process that includes the following:
1. Identification of skills, values, and personality traits
2. Field research
3. Setting intentions
4. Taking action steps

Assessment

Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches understand and apply career development assessment tools through distance modalities.
1. Prioritizing Career Values
2. Identifying Transferable Skills
3. Using Work and Management Style
4. Career Interest Assessment
5. Assessment in Perspective

Setting Intentions

Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches help clients focus on an immediate job objective or a long-term career intention:
1. Matching Skills With Tasks
2. Matching Styles with Managers and Peers
3. Matching Career Values with Organizations

Building and Managing a Career Strategy Plan
Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches practice proven job and career coaching techniques.

Ethical/Legal Issues
Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches work within the parameters of ethical and legal-regulatory guidelines that govern face-to-face and distance-delivered helping services.

Mentoring
Distance Job and Career Transition Coaches understand how to seek mentoring and know how to refer clients to professional services outside their experience and competency.

How are my distance job and career transition coaching competencies evaluated?

Each component of the training includes an assessment in the form of one or more of the following: a demonstration, responses to multiple-choice progress, discussion, and review questions, quiz.

Can I obtain continuing education for this training?

You will receive 20 Contact Hours upon completion of the training.

Do I need a certain level of education and experience in this area prior to participating in the course?

You must be comfortable working on a computer, and have an email address and a fast Internet connection (i.e., DSL, cable).

You must have earned the Job & Career Transition Coach or Job & Career Transition Development Certificate, the Job Search Practitioner Certificate, the Global Career Development Facilitator Certificate, a Master's degree in a helping professional field from a regionally accredited college or university, or completed a master's level career development course at a college or university, and have a minimum of 2000 hours of career advising experience.

First, I am going to explain the technology that supports the web platform that I am demonstrating and upon which I have set up several career training programs. The reason I am explaining it is because if you are part of an organization, you may have access to WebCT and Blackboard, the most widely used web course platforms by colleges and universities in the United States. WebCT and Blackboard adopted the technology that we are using for our trainings.

You can set up an online private or group practice or an organizational e-community. For example, view Ed Colozzi's eProfile. Then view "Owned Communities" in the right column. Click on his "Dove" eCommunity. View my eProfile, and then view the "Owned Communities" that I have set up, such as the GCDF eCommunity.

You can publicize both services and products in your eProfile or in an eCommunity that you can create. If you are part of an organization, you can link this eCommunity to your organization's website.

Set up eCommunities To Inform Potential Clients of Services

For example:

Career Development Facilitator Training

Career Development Facilitator Instructor Training

Job Search Practitioner Training

Distance Job and Career Transitions Coach Training

Set up eCommunities To Encourage Communication Over the Internet

Examples:
Job Juggler eCommunity
Entrepreneur eCommunity