Career coach program is a special program designed to help you explore the career opportunities in your field of interest, teach you to set your career goal, and how to plan your career path to achieve your career goal. A student who are looking for a career related college degree, a fresh graduate who just going to enter the job market or a working adult who are looking for career advancement or career switch may benefit from a career coach program. Let’s find out how a career coach program will benefit you in helping you to find your dream career and achieve your career goal in the shortest period of time.

Benefits for a College Student

You may have certain fields of interest that you plan to start your career after you graduation. Before you decide which degree program that will help in your future career, you may have concerns about the demand of your selected career field, projected salary range, qualification requirements for your career ladder & etc. A career coach can help to clear your doubts and answer your questions about your career future. By getting understanding on your future career path based on your selected field of study, you can ensure you are selecting the right degree program that meet the qualification of your selected career and you will be more prepared to face your career challenge when you start your career after graduation.

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According Ediger (2000), elementary school career education is important. Ediger stated that “the elementary school years are not too early to begin to achieve a vision of what one desires to do in life contributing to the world of work”. Without career education, students have unrealistic perceptions of careers due to a lack of knowledge and poor decision making. Students have limited knowledge and exposure to careers. (2,3) When students look at the different industries e.g. sports, media and entertainment, most students underestimate the skills and time required to have successful careers. (3)

The Basics for Elementary School Career Education Programs

In career awareness programs, students do not make premature career choices. Elementary school career education is not career exploration or career preparation. Elementary students remain open to new career ideas and possibilities. (7,8,13,15) Elementary students build awareness of self, personal interactions, school, and the workforce. (2,15) Elementary school counselors and teachers build self-awareness, family awareness, school awareness, community awareness, career/ work awareness, attitude development, skill development, decision making strategies, and self-worth. (2,4,11)

Career awareness programs use age appropriate materials that match the developmental levels of the students. Age appropriate activities expose students to a variety of different jobs, career information sources, and the reasons why people work. Programs also incorporate academic career pathways into classroom activities. According to CareerTec (2000), the preliminary career education skills serve as foundations for future skills. As the students progress, previous skills are reinforced, developed, and expanded. (2,4,11)  Read more...

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Career assessments and tests help you explore who you. Career books and web sites give you a glimpse of the world of work. Free career information is available on web sites. Some writers have written facts for children and teens. We would like to share some information with you. These web sites use graphics, multimedia presentation, activities, and other techniques to expand our knowledge of careers. We have written information on seventeen (17) web sites. Here are the four different types of exploring careers web sites:

Curriculum

General Career Information

Science Career Clusters

Specific Science Careers

Curriculum Web Sites

Curriculum web sites provide activities, tests, guidelines, as well as career information.

Resource One: Career Cruiser

Source: Florida Department of Education

The Career Cruiser is a career exploration guidebook for middle school students. The Career Cruiser has self assessment activities to match personal interests to careers. The Career Cruiser has information on Holland Codes. Careers are grouped into 16 career clusters. The Career Cruiser has information on occupational descriptions, average earnings, and minimum educational level required for the job.

Teacher’s Guide is also available.

Resource Two: Elementary Core Career Connection

Source: Utah State Office of Education

The Core Career Connections is a collection of instructional activities, K to 6, and 7 to 8, designed by teachers, counselors, and parents. Each grade level has instructional activities that align directly with the Utah State Core. This instructional resource provides a framework for teachers, counselors, and parents to integrate career awareness with the elementary and middle level grade students.  Read more...

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A wealth of information exists that explains the relationships between school subjects and careers. Across the nation, children, teens, teachers, and counselors use Career Interests Areas or Clusters to explore careers and to make school study plans. There are sixteen (16) Interests Areas or Clusters:

1. Agriculture, Food, & Natural Resources

2. Architecture & Construction

3. Arts, A/V Technology & Communication

4. Business, Management & Administration

5. Education & Training

6. Finance

7. Government & Public Administration

8. Health Science

9. Hospitality & Tourism

10. Human Services

11. Information Technology

12. Law, Public Safety & Security

13. Manufacturing

14. Marketing, Sales & Service

15. Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics

16. Transportation, Distribution & Logistics

States and federal agencies across the nation have created career cluster web sites and resources. We have reviewed three (3) of the best state or federal agency web sites.

Louisiana Integrated Skills Assessment (LISA)

One of the most unique comprehensive career cluster resources is the Louisiana Integrated Skills Assessment (LISA), an Internet program. LISA lets you explore career clusters, careers, abilities, training requirements, and more. Using the Lisa, you can do the following tasks:

Assessment: Explore career options using the Work Importance Locator.

I Enjoy: Find careers based upon the things that you enjoy.

Cluster: Find careers from Career Cluster Groups.

Search: Search for jobs based on knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Best Match: Use your current job to find knowledge, skills, and abilities to identify a new career.

Compare: Compare current job to potential new job.

Profile: Use this feature to create a profile from a selected career.  Read more...

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It is already a known fact that IT offers a bright and promising career for various individuals. Making a groundbreaking career in IT is not too tough. However, without a proper IT training, a career in IT is next thing to impossible. Undergoing an IT training from a renowned IT center is the first step towards becoming an IT professional. In this regard, India has vast scopes for would-be IT professionals. So India is a preferred destination for worldwide IT students. There are gamuts of reasons which promote IT education in India.

Indian IT institutes provide good provision for Institutional Alliances. Institutional alliances provide advanced IT training programs to IT students within the premise itself to prepare them for industry. Institutional alliances play a significant role in IT education in India since they close the gap between the industry and institutes.

Secondly, India is a certified prometric exam center. IT exams such as Microsoft, Sun (SCJP, SCWCD, SCBCD, SCEA, and SCJA) etc are conducted at an authorized prometric exam center. A good prometric exam center is the only place where exams for Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Exin – ITIL, Dell, and HP are held. The significances of undergoing exam from an authorized prometric exam center are:

Any time or round the year facility

Full co-ordination starting from registration process to result

A cool and calm place to give your exam

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IT training provides a valuable career option for majority of the student’s population in India. Various IT career programs are available for students to shape a promising career in IT sector. The job market scenario keeps changing from time to time and competition also becomes tougher day by day.

Various career programs in IT are open for those students who aspire to become IT professionals.

Some facilities provided by IT training in India include enterprise learning solutions, project training, industrial training, Cisco certification etc. Enterprise learning solutions have become a key importance on the anvil of quality IT education in India. Most of the IT institutes in India also provide facility for project training. Through project training, trainees can enhance their practical knowledge about their study program.

Benefits of undergoing IT training in India

Indian IT institutes provide major emphasis upon the application and practical training aspect of IT training to make the students industry-ready from day one. Secondly, The courses conducted by reputed IT institutes as part of its Networking and Hardware Programs in India equip students with necessary knowledge and skills to clear various global certification exams on hardware and networking courses that include A+, N+, CCNA, MCTP, RHCE, etc.  Read more...

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