Certified Course
Empowering Students to Find and Secure the Right Job
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Performance Group
This course provides you with a lifelong peer-to-peer learning opportunity through a specific Performance Group created within the Career Ed Lounge, a learning community of career education professionals. This allows you to learn and share with your peers at any time you want, even after you complete the course.
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Course Objectives
Module 1: Targeted Job Search
- Identify the kinds of jobs available in the marketplace.
- Establish which features and benefits are most important to students.
- Target potential job lead resources in their community, online, and at school.
- Conduct a comprehensive online job search with an extensive list of online resources.
- Prepare to make professional in-person, phone, and email job inquiries.
- Keep track of job leads.
Module 2: Powerful Resumes and Cover Letters
- Create a professional resume.
- Assess resume-relevant qualities and skills.
- Write targeted and effective cover letters.
- Evaluate and remedy commonly made cover-letter mistakes.
- Target the language of a cover letter to the language used in job descriptions.
- Develop a list of personal and professional references that can speak to the various qualities and skills listed on a resume.
Module 3: Successful Interviews
- Understand the importance of projecting a professional image and recognizing its relation to a positive self-image.
- Describe which presentation skills are necessary, as well as those that comprise an effective communicator.
- Research the prospective employer.
- Understand all of what is entailed in preparing for job interviews, including managing nervousness and articulating strengths and weaknesses in an authentic and intelligent manner.
- Prepare for and demonstrate an ability to answer the most common and difficult interview questions.
- Clarify things they would want to ask at an interview and developing sample questions for the interviewer.
Module 4: Entering the Workforce
- Access the greatest number of available jobs.
- Become an informed and effective career professional.
- Understand the importance of maintaining a positive attitude, being dependable, and making a valuable contribution at work.
- Overcome both personal and professional challenges at internships.
- Measure progress on the job.
Course Structure
Course Format
- Can Start Anytime
- Self-paced (within course enrollment timeframe)
- 4 Hours of Activities
Completion Requirements
- Study Course Content
- Pass ALL Required Quizzes
Digital Badge & Certificate of Completion
- 4 Hours of Continuing Education
- Awarded upon successful completion of course
Course Rating
Certification Credits
- This course provides a Certificate of Completion with 4 hours of continuing education credits.
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This course provides credit toward the Certified Higher Education Professional (CHEP) credential in the following specialization area(s):
- CHEP in Career Services
- This course provides credit toward the continuing education requirements for CHEPs in all areas of specialization.
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