Coalition for Career Development

Founded in 1913 Professional standards & career counseling competencies Certification Code of ethics Consumer guidelines

NCDA & the Coalition for Career Development - @ 2015 NCDA is the leader in career development, nationally and internationally Standards for training and credentialing career development practitioners Resources and personnel to provide training and consultation

School Career Development Advisor Training & Credential

What is it? 160-hour training course which provides standards, training specifications, and a path to credentialing. (Method? A flipped classroom using a version of Moodle) (NCDA’s FCD and SCDA training) Success is determined by completing: Readings and activities in the manual Field work activities Activities in the instructor interactive sessions s\ Enables completers to apply for the Certified School Career Development Advisor and Certified Career Services Provider credentials with the NCDA Credentialing Commission

Course objectives: 1. Use the internet to identify and use career information resources to assist students with career decision making and to access and interpret employment trends and labor market information 2. Describe and assess how to apply career development theory to practice 3. Demonstrate competence in the understanding, administration, and interpretation of career development assessments

Course objectives: 4. Assess participant’s areas of strength or weakness relating to career development by utilizing the appropriate assessments 5. Learn and apply criteria to analyze career development programs 6. Apply knowledge and learnings to work as SCDAs by examining case studies, field work experiences, and text assignments

Why? Learn how to build relationships with business and employers Know how to use and interpret labor market information to plan programs, select curricula, and educate stakeholders Cover 12 key career development competencies - plenty of opportunity to build skills and knowledge in areas that are new, as well as enhance those that are use every day as an SCDA.

How the assignments help SCDAs Personal career & reflection journals, discussions + projects Role plays and practice Work Application Project and presentation Assessments Exposure to new resources and current career practices While learning how to do this for our “clients” SCDAs, in essence, became participants in the process themselves. Each topic has an assignment for practice and application.

Topics Covered Helping Skills - Individuals & groups Career Development Theory & Application Assessments in Career Planning

Ethics Diversity K-12 Sector SCDA Role and Purpose Business Relations & Development

Role of Career Info & Tech Sequencing and developing info in a way that makes sense for the student without overwhelming them. ID problem (gap) - intake Self-analysis - assessments Synthesis - narrow list to 3-5 resources Exploring & prioritizing - (Planning & experiential learning) Choose? Revisit - is gap closed?

Job Seeking & Employability Skills Networking Social-media Personal branding Job search trends Challenges & stresses Job-retention skills Resumes (electronic resume tips) Interviewing We had to create our own career portfolios

Designing & Implementing Career Planning Services Helpful for planning a new program, event, workshop or process. Can convince administrators to adopt ideas Step-by-step process - Programming Planning Worksheets provided

For more information, contact: Dr. Cynthia Marco Scanlon cscanlon@ncda.org

What is Career Launch?

Career Launch has been established under the leadership of Governor Dennis Daugaard to increase student awareness about career opportunities in their communities and help meet South Dakota’s demand for a skilled workforce.

Why Career Launch? Job Openings 14,965 Unemployment rate 2.9% Job Openings: Unemployed/job opening 0.34 Labor Participation rate 68.1% Student engagement in the workforce 50.5% Student engagement in school 32.0%

the key problem Finding workforce is that is faced by employers. -- Governor Dennis Daugaard

What We Did 2 state agencies + Governor’s Office 12 FTE 4 school districts 1 week of training* 5 months of implementation 2 phases

What We Have Accomplished More than 100 internship placements Countless hours of classroom presentations Five classes of soft skills training Expand middle school CTE and career exploration Community relations building Myriad of business connections Dozens of lessons learned

NCDA Training: tools of the trade How It Was Possible NCDA Training: tools of the trade Strong interagency collaboration Willingness to go outside of comfort levels Support of leadership – at every level

The NCDA course has been immeasurably helpful The NCDA course has been immeasurably helpful . . . NCDA training gave me many useful tools . . . It was such a pleasure to learn from experts in Career Facilitation! NCDA provided a practical training that will help me better serve students.

Questions? Laura K. Scheibe Director, Division of Career and Technical Education South Dakota Department of Education Laura.Scheibe@state.sd.us

“ The goal of career counseling is to help clients learn to take actions to achieve more satisfying career and personal lives—not to make a single career decision” JD Krumblotz, 2009

Crucial Points to Consider The world is our campus Lifelong learning Experiential learning  Identity Adaptability Independent Thinking

Source: Job Outlook 2018 (N=201 employing organizations) and The Class of 2017 Student Survey Report (N=4,213 graduating seniors), National Association of Colleges and Employers

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