Career & Employment Strategies SEOS_CES
Opportunities exist to help people get through rough patches in life as you guide them through the decision making process that helps them to get back on their feet. Many opportunities are in the “Not For Profit” sector, or you can provide these services to groups like “Job Find Clubs” that create mutual support and stimulation to take control of a bad situation and make it better. For people that are interested in a part-time opportunity to supplement retirement income this can be a great opportunity to “give back” and share their experience as well as reassure people that there is always a way to earn money if you calmly assess the opportunities around you. Since in their high-stress cash-strapped state people are not in a position to take scheduled courses they are more likely to turn to a coach with the skills to deliver the information they need just in time.
- Business Management Training – Teaching & Mentoring Courses will help you to prepare for this opportunity. The specific skills that would be relevant are:
Mentoring Skills - a mentor transfers experiential knowledge to a protégé (who often has a substantial amount of practical experience and book knowledge) so that the pieces of the puzzle start to fit together. The goal is to make the knowledge whole, so that the protégé has a clear picture of how subject knowledge has evolved into practical steps and stages that make sense.
Coaching Skills - working closely with an individual to help them improve their abilities, with the assumption that they already know what they need to know. In business, or in life skills, coaching involves helping clients become better at what they do. Many people have abilities but are hesitant to move forward without reassurance: a skillful coach provides encouragement and points at accomplishments to help them get on with life or flourish in their career.
- Business Management Training – Career Management Courses provide the knowledge that you need to provide these consulting services.
Study, Planning & Budgeting Skills - help people to transition into structured learning to help them achieve goals in education and in preparation for a career path that will continue to serve them long after they have graduated regardless of career choice preferences.
Professional Job Search Skills - selling skills are a critical success factor for obtaining employment, or starting a business venture, the reason why we teach how to sell yourself first.
Career & Employment Strategy - focuses on how to find job opportunities, apply and complete a successful interview to obtain a career starting opportunity. We look at everything a person studied: reflect on direct skills and indirect skills, projects, exercises, or experience that can be used to show what they have achieved.
Professional Workplace Behaviour - the workplace has changed dramatically, yet many people seem lost in terms of what behaviour is acceptable and that may get them in trouble and potentially out looking for work. The key here is that people seemed to have lost their morals in the course of embracing the concepts of equality in the workplace.
Managing Workplace Downsizing - many people continue to expect jobs to be persistent. Increased competitive pressures make it difficult to impossible to maintain that kind of stability in competitive companies: even if the company survives, it may be after major restructuring that inevitably affects employees.
If you work with people, especially young people, you need to obtain the appropriate clearance to demonstrate due diligence. This is not only when you actually teach individuals – this is also recommended if you just talk to people to provide information and to encourage them to sign up. Times have changed, and we need to take that into account. You can determine your level of involvement in training based on your education and business knowledge – at a minimum you can become a representative, but you can develop your skills as a trainer and expand your involvement to perhaps offer programs in your regional area.
For us, receiving this information to put on file is simply due diligence on our part. All instructors/coaches must have at least completed the courses they want to teach, or demonstrate a prior college/university education in those subjects (or the equivalent level of experience through employment in a relevant capacity).
All instructors/coaches must have at least completed the courses they want to teach, or demonstrate a prior college/university education in those subjects (or the equivalent level of experience through employment in a relevant capacity). If you do not have these prerequisites, then there will be a need to take the training programs. The affiliate provider may be willing to let you take these courses at cost, or refund part of the cost once you start teaching the courses (that is up to the affiliate to decide, they are not obligated to do either).
Based on the “Business Management Training – Career Management Courses” on this site you can prepare for coaching sessions where you bring your own experience to the table as you help the attendees go through the material. You have to be Internet savvy and be equipped with computer facilities that enable you to help candidates find opportunities to differentiate themselves from other candidates and have a good chance of being selected as potential candidates.
Career and Employment Strategy sessions are typically organized using the workshop format, where you work with a group of people that collectively represent a “Job Find Club” to structure and strategize their efforts to get a job or to find a way to resume their education (or ideally both). How best to structure workshops depends entirely on the environment in which you can offer your services, as explained under revenues. You may find that a number of topics from a course perspective work better in a different way when organized as a series of action steps that lead candidates to potential job opportunities.
You may create a “prioritized checklist” of what should be prepared first, and depending on whether they check “done” or not it will reveal what steps are required to get people job ready. We have some examples that you can use to structure your own program. Generally we create several smaller teams of people who then are closer to at the same level of preparation and job search activity, so they are not held back by a newcomer, nor is someone losing out by joining a group that is already in an interviewing stage where the focus is completely different.
People who are out of work tend to be cash-strapped and therefore may not be great candidates for registering in courses, which leads to the point of not being able to charge at the same rate as students in class. They will not likely be able to work with you privately, but they can share in the cost of training. Since searching for work tends to be regarded as a community initiative, local libraries and other civic facilities may allow you access to the resources you need free of charge.
If you work with a group of people and charge $5.00/session (for example) each 2 hour session with 10 people nets $50.00 and if the unemployment rate is high you may be able to run 3 or 4 sessions per day.
There may also be opportunities to get sponsored by outreach centers that are chartered to help people get back to work. It is also acceptable to charge extra for services you may provide like writing cover letters or polishing resumes for people that find those tasks daunting for some reason, assuming they are not looking to find office work. You may also work with search agencies to help their clients prepare for work.
The courses to prepare for this opportunity were listed above. The first level of training is focused on preparing for the delivery of information:
- Mentoring Skills
- Coaching Skills
The second level of training looks at each aspect of a career management process that you can adapt to address the specific needs of your clients:
- Study, Planning & Budgeting Skills
- Professional Job Search Skills
- Career & Employment Strategy
- Professional Workplace Behaviour
- Managing Workplace Downsizing
If you want to engage in these courses for the purpose of becoming a “Career & Employment Strategies” coach we can provide you with added materials at no extra charge to assist you in establishing your services. Let us know by adding a note to that effect on the course registration form. If we have an information seminar on this opportunity in your general area we will send you an invitation to attend and to learn more about us.
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