1. Coalition for Career Development

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

3. 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

4. School Career Development Advisor Training & Credential

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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.

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

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

12. 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?

13. 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

14. 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

15. For more information, contact: Dr. Cynthia Marco Scanlon

16. What is Career Launch?

17. 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.

18. 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%

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

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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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.

25. Questions? Laura K. Scheibe
Director, Division of Career and Technical Education
South Dakota Department of Education

27. “ 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

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

29. 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

30. Thank You
Questions or Comments?