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SkillScan
Free Introductory Webinars
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to using SkillScan tools
to using SkillScan tools
Optimizing Skills Assessment on Campus: A virtual panel discussion
Join your colleagues in this interactive panel to learn practical and innovative ways to expand student awareness of their strengths and apply this self-knowledge in skill development, career exploration, and the job search.
You will:
- Increase awareness of the many ways online assessments can be used in small to large group formats on your campus.
- Get new ideas for using SkillScan in Freshman Orientation, Co-op Education, Career Exploration classes, Skill Development, and the Job Search.
- Learn about the report formats (Drive and Express) that are utilized to meet student career development needs.
- Identify the most popular SkillScan report sections that are used to support student career objectives.
- Hear panelist feedback on the impact of using assessments in career programming.
Date: June 22, 2021 10:00 - 11:15 a.m. PT / 1:00 - 2:15 ET
Panelists:- Denise Leong-Brattain, Career Center Coordinator I Associate Professor, Glendale Community College, Glendale, CA
- Bethany Walsh, Career Advisor, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
- Jayne Hayden, Career Advisor, University of Waterloo University, Waterloo, Ontario
- Amy Jaffe, Senior Associate Director, Bates Center for Purposeful Work, Bates College, Portland, ME
Smart Tactics: Reviewing Your Client’s SkillScan Report
What are the best approaches for reviewing a client’s report? How can you forecast client results and reinforce key preferences? How much time should you spend? What are the key report sections based on your client’s goals?
In this session, Lesah will model how to review a client’s report and share strategies, tips, and best practices to enhance your abilities. Bring your questions and share your suggestions based on your experience.
Date: April 7, 2021 11:00 - 11:45 a.m. PST
Key Takeaways:
- What to do before, during and after the debrief
- Learn new ways to debrief the report with your clients
- Gain tips for working with launchers, transitioners, and job seekers
Date: April 7, 2021 11:00 - 11:45 a.m. PST
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Smart Tactics: Helping Launchers and Millennials Find Their Career Sweet Spot with Assessments
With Guest Presenter: Zachary M. Cochran, Founder and Career Design Coach of Cochran Coaching LLC
Are you working with career launchers and early professionals who need greater personal clarity to accelerate their careers? In this interactive session, guest presenter Zachary M. Cochran, founder and Career Design Coach of Cochran Coaching LLC, will lead us through the following topics.
- How to acquire clients in a younger age range (15-25 years old)
- How to assess your prospective clients’ readiness for coaching
- An explanation of the differences between the various ages and life stages: high school, college, and young professionals
- Cochran Coaching LLC’s use of a variety of valuable self-awareness assessments
- Tips on adapting his program (based on a client’s personal style and financial resources), including effective strategies and tips to sustain client engagement and achieve desired outcomes
Smart Tactics: Developing Targeted Skill-based Resumes
In today’s changing job market, our clients need highly targeted resumes to enhance their candidacy. In this webinar, you will learn how to improve your client’s marketability by incorporating their strengths and transferable skills in their resume. Lesah will review tips, brief case studies, and examples to help you guide clients to apply their SkillScan results for a more targeted, skills-based resume.
Key Takeaways:
- Gain a simple process to analyze a job position and help clients connect their top skills and experiences to the role
- Use Skill Categories and Skill Sets to structure a resume to communicate clients’ greatest strengths
- Examine case studies that illustrate connecting client strengths in their resume to specific jobs
- Review sample resumes and use resources in the Learning Center to assist your clients
SkillScan
In-Depth Webinars
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with in-depth training and certification
with in-depth training and certification
The SkillScan Solution: Administer SkillScan for Resume Reinvention
Learn how to help clients reinvent their resume for a new role or a new career. In a dynamic labor market, having a process and examples for translating skills and experience into targeted resumes is central to our client’s success. Your fee includes a personal use of SkillScan Drive and two grantable uses for your clients (value $29.90). You receive 3.0 CEU clock hours.
Dates:
- Sept 15 and 22 - 11:00 - 12:15 p.m. PST
Fee: $124.00
This webinar series is intended for experienced career coaches who are already familiar with how to build functional, hybrid, and chronological resumes.
In this webinar, you will learn:- How to hone-in on your client’s greatest strengths, identify relevant opportunities, and build a targeted resume that opens doors.
- Methods for deconstructing a job description to identify the hard and soft skills picked up by Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), for increased competitiveness.
- Tactics to structure and reframe your client’s past experiences for a position.
- Develop a Summary of Qualifications and action-oriented bullet statements to align with the target position.
- Walk through case studies that illustrate the reinvention and targeting process using several example resumes.
Helping Late Career Clients Make the Shift: Creating a Meaningful Next Chapter
Clients in the "rewirement" stage can experience an overwhelming lack of confidence, and they may wonder if it’s too late to transition to a new career, job, or role. Learn how to create a space for clients to see this time as a new adventure as they discover their purpose and find clarity in their most enjoyable skills, interests, and values.
Date:
- September 29, 2021 - 11:00 - 12:30 p.m. PST
Fee: Early bird price through Sept 22: $39; $49 after
- Are you working with late career clients starting to think about retirement?
- Do you find it challenging to help your clients shift their mindset and deal with ageism?
- Do your clients have a hard time shifting from a lifetime career to their next act?
In this interactive session, Sandy Demarest, Founder of Demarest Directions, will lead us through the following topics.
- Impact of major life/work transitions, importance of mindset, and challenges transitioners face as they downshift and rewire
- Ways to motivate and inspire those late in their career to find relevance, confidence, and a growth mindset in the career planning process
- A walk-through of Sandy’s process to move clients to their next role and start envisioning what their retirement may look like.
- Two Case studies: One client discovers an unexpected career choice during the process, and the second client discovers his Best Fit Now role and explores next steps with strategies for experimenting to assess if this will part of his future career plan
- A walk through Drive and the use of a highly successful tool, the MASTER FIT (Function, Interest and Things that matter), to create a roadmap to the Next Chapter.
- Tips on how to overcome client obstacles with coaching examples and ways to help clients shift their mindset, embrace challenge, and engage to find new opportunities
You will walk away with a process and plan to help your late career clients continue to grow, develop, and thrive as they move to their Next Chapter.
The SkillScan Solution: Strategic Skills and Career Assessment Webinar & Certification
This two-part interactive webinar covers administration and interpretation of Drive and Express assessments, including integration with client interests and values to deepen client insights. You receive 4.0 CEU clock hours.
Following the webinar and successful completion of a 20-item exam, you will receive the SkillScan Drive and Express Certification (SDEC). The certification demonstrates that you possess the knowledge and skills for effectively administering and interpreting the assessments to meet the needs of your career clients. You also receive a Digital Badge to post on your marketing materials and course completion certificate.
Dates:
- November 10 & 17 - 11:00 - 12:30 p.m. PST
Fee: Early bird pricing $225 through November 2 and $250 after.
After completing this course you will be able to:
- Administer and interpret Drive and Express to your clients
- Understand the value of each report section and the purpose, structure and scoring
- Integrate skill results with other career assessments (Holland Interests and Values) to help clients gain a holistic picture of their preferences.
- Apply strategies and tips for using SkillScan results with career launchers, transitioners, and job seekers.
Total Time: 3 hours, split into 2 parts
Note: Completion of this webinar or tutorial is required for SDEC Certification
Price includes three grantable uses for clients (a $45.00 value).
Earn 4.0 CEU Contact hours
Self-Directed Tutorial: The SkillScan Solution: Strategic Skills and Career Assessment Webinar & Certification
This two-part tutorial covers administration and interpretation of Drive and Express assessments, including integration with client interests and values to deepen client insights. You will be guided through a series of steps; 1) Complete both Drive and Express Assessments and review the first recording; 2) Take the Holland Interest Exercise and the Values Assessment and review the second recording. The final step is to take a 20-item multiple choice exam (pass rate is 70%).
Following successful completion of the exam, you will receive the SkillScan Drive and Express Certification (SDEC) and digital badge to use in marketing materials. The certification demonstrates that you possess the knowledge and skills for effectively administering and interpreting the assessments to meet the needs of your clients.
You have 30 days to complete all assignments including the exam.
- Price includes three grantable uses for clients (a $45.00 value).
- Earn 4.0 CEU Contact hours
Fee: $250.00
After completing this course you will be able to:
- Administer and interpret Drive and Express to your clients
- Understand the value of each report section and the purpose, structure and scoring
- Integrate skill results with other career assessments (Holland Interests and Values) to help clients gain a holistic picture of their preferences.
- Apply strategies and tips for using SkillScan results with career launchers, transitioners, and job seekers.
Note: Completion of this webinar or tutorial is required for SDEC Certification
Price includes three grantable uses for clients (a $45.00 value).
Earn 4.0 CEU Contact hours
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