Training That Gets You The Job! - LaGuardia Community College ...

NEW Career Development Institute offers a professional certificate in career
coaching,accredited by LaGuardia Community College/CUNY. Courses are offered on a weekend schedule.
Certificate Program in Career Coaching
Boost your own career and help others who are looking to embark on a new career in the current economy.
Become a career coach. LaGuardia is offering a Career Coach Certificate Program for those with some or no experience in
Career Development/Management/ Coaching. Enhance your skills to advance in your current position or start a brand new
chapter in your professional life! This is a 5 course program. Successful completion of the program will lead to certification
from LaGuardia’s Career Development Institute. Find out more: email acereg@lagcc.cuny.edu. or call (718) 482-5354.
Fundamentals of Counseling
and Coaching Skills
Review and practice basic skills and techniques
necessary for effective career coaching in this introductory
course. You will discuss differences and similarities
between coaching and counseling; intake interview
techniques; coaching groups vs. individuals, and career
coaching models and sample assessment. You’ll also
have the opportunity to practice what you’ve learned in
class through role play and small group activities. (This
course is a prerequisite to all other program courses.
Co requisite: Using Assessment in Career Coaching.)
Fri 6:00pm - 9:00pm, Sat 9:30am - 4:30pm
& Sun 10:00am - 4:00pm Apr 29 - May 1
(3 sessions/14 hours) $395 A03CRD009A
Using Assessments in Career
Coaching
Explore effective career interest, skills and preference
inventories that are used by career coaches in private
practice and organizational settings. You will complete
and interpret several inventories and other assessment
material, and learn how to apply these to specific client
populations. Prerequisite or co requisite: Fundamentals
of Counseling and Coaching Skills.
Fri 6:00pm - 9:00pm, Sat 9:30am - 4:30pm
& Sun 10:00am - 4:00pm May 13 - May 15
(3 sessions/16 hours) $499 A03CRD005A
Designing Targeted Career
Development Seminars
Learn to design and implement career development
seminars that focus on specific topics, such as career
management, career transition and out placement.
Explore career development theories and their application
to the current workforce. Prerequisites: Fundamentals of
Counseling and Coaching Skills and Using Assessments in
Career Coaching.
Coming Summer 2011
Fri, Sat & Sun (3 sessions/16 hours)
$295 A03CRD006A
Model for Career Coaches
Experience the process and learn practical uses of the
Career Development Institute’s Career Counseling Model,
including coaching and counseling techniques for
professional career coaches. You will have the
opportunity to practice what you’ve learned in class
through role play and small group activities. Prerequisites:
Fundamentals of Counseling and Coaching Skills and
Using Assessments in Career Coaching.
Coming Summer 2011
Fri, Sat & Sun (3 sessions/16 hours)
$199 A03CRD008A
Diversity and Inclusion
Competence for Career Coaches
Discover the importance of diversity in the workplace and
how to apply the concept of inclusion in your career
coaching. You’ll review ethics in a multicultural context;
coaching from the client’s perspective; awareness
exercises, and best practices from guest speakers.
Prerequisites: Fundamentals of Counseling and Coaching
Skills and Using Assessments in Career Coaching.
Coming Fall 2011
Fri, Sat & Sun (3 sessions/16 hours)
$295 A03CRD007A
Job Seekers and changers:
Get the help you need
NEW Change Your Career
Do you want or need to make a change in your career
direction? Work with an experienced counselor to
examine your professional experience and determine a
new path. You will assess your skills, explore options, and
weigh your interests, work and personal values, skills and
preferences. You will be encouraged to establish career,
job and/or educational plans and establish short term and
long term goals as part of your action plan. An interest
inventory is included.
Wed Apr 6 - May 4 (4 sessions/12 hours)
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm $199 A03CRD010A
Meet
Enrique Garcia Bejar
Executive Director, Career Development Institute
Take your professional life in a
new direction!
Enrique Garcia Bejar has taken his education and many
years of career counseling/coaching experience, and
put them all into the new Career Development
Institute at LaGuardia. The Institute offers two
programs: a career coaching certificate program for
professionals already working or interested in working
in the field, and career development seminars for
anyone looking to change jobs or begin a career.
“
I realized that there was a field
unknown to many that provided a
planned and organized way to choose
a career or job,” says Mr. Garcia Bejar
of his interest in career coaching.
“It’s an opportunity to offer individuals
a process to take control of their
lives.
”
With an Ed.M. Degree in Psychological Counseling;
certification in several Career and Psychological
Assessments; and experience in organizations
including LaGuardia’s Adult Career Counseling and
Resource Center (currently, the Career Development
Center) and through his own company, Bejar
Consulting Group LLC, which provides executive and
career coaching to organization/corporate clients in the
U.S. and abroad, the Career Development Institute is in
good hands.
Career Development Institute
Ph one: (718)482-7244 • E-Mail: acereg@lagcc.cuny. e d u • Fax: (718)609-2074 17