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Berkeley Global
Choosing a college major and exploring career options is of critical importance for high school students who face a changing workforce after graduation. Learn how career assessments and internship/job search tools (including professional and social networking) can help students and clients of all ages explore and choose college majors and career options.
Read more about the growing need for college admissions counselors.
Course Outline
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Course Objectives
- Deconstruct how work impacts the life of an individual
- Differentiate the needs of clients with diverse background and experiences
- Create your own career theory
- Evaluate and critique career-development information resources
- Understand the specific needs and concerns of clients from diverse backgrounds and experiences
- Identify and apply computerized test results to assess an individual’s career choices
- Design a career-path plan based on the synthesis of information and resources you have gathered for your client
- Demonstrate career-counseling techniques
What You Learn
- Role of the career counselor
- Components of college and career-readiness counseling
- College and career-ready standards and assessments
- State and/or federal government and career planning and college admissions
- Approaches to career counseling
- Post-modern career counseling
- Holland code
- Personal career theory
- Career planning and college admissions organizations
- NCDC guidelines
- Career transitions
- Cultural diversity and career counseling
- Career case history and genogram
- NCDA career counselor assessment and evaluation competencies
- Ethical use of social networking technologies in career services
- Career assessments
- Common Career Technical Core
- Employability Skills Framework
- Post-Secondary Options and Planning
- Occupational trends
- Job search strategies
- Adults in career transition
- Code of ethics
- Future trends
How You Learn
- Readings
- Video lectures
- Online resources
- Discussions
- Written assignments
- Final project
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Spring 2025 enrollment opens on October 21!