Career/Employment Coach Certificate (CECC)
This page describes one of several Professional Development services offered by the Winnipeg Transition Centre. Use the links at the left and the top to view other services and information.
The Winnipeg Transition Centre, in partnership with the University of Winnipeg’s Continuing Education Department, is offering a Career and Employment Coach Certificate (CECC), except for Ontario, where the Certificate is offered through Humber College in Toronto. CECC will provide workshop participants with intensive, hands-on training that will build and enhance their ability to assist unemployed individuals.
The Certificate is made up of the following four 2-day workshops:
- Career Planning Coach
- Resumé Development Coach
- Interview Skills Coach
- Job Search Coach
Individuals must successfully complete all four workshops to receive the certificate.
At this 2-day workshop, you will learn to:
- Assist individuals in identifying their motivating skills, values and personality type
- Question individuals to assist in developing an effective career decision action plan
- Use a variety of informal career assessment tools and techniques
- Work with an individual instead of for an individual
- Guide individuals in making their own career decisions
- Understand workplace trends and career change options
- Assist participants in determining the best job objective or career goal
- Encourage the use of network contacts
- Practice Career Coaching through role plays
- Learn alternative coaching methods from workshop peers on how to deal with difficult career coaching scenarios
Resumé Development Coach
At this 2-day workshop, you will learn to:
- Assist individuals in identifying skills to meet specific job goals using nine easy steps
- Question individuals to draw out skills and maximize accomplishments
- Lay out resumés targeted to catch employers’ attention
- Effectively analyze resumés using 20 important tips
- Work with an individual instead of for an individual
- Assist individuals to see the benefits of changing their current resume
- Determine best resumé format for each individual
Interview Skills Coach
At this 2-day workshop, you will learn:
- Three major types of interview questions including Standard, Situational and Behavior-Descriptive
- How to coach individuals to gain confidence and overcome nervousness
- Suggestions for answering “tough” interview questions
- How to coach individuals to find their own answers
- How to evaluate effectiveness of answers
Job Search Coach
At this 2-day workshop, you will learn to:
- Assist individuals to be proactive and creative in their job search
- Develop jobseekers’ calling cards
- Successfully contact employers
- Get job leads from the newspaper without using the “classifieds”
- Create and design Work Proposals
- Promote creative “out of the box” thinking for individuals who are “stuck” in their job search
Challenge The Certificate
Individuals who have previously completed the Winnipeg Transition Centre’s one-day coaching courses can apply to meet the certificate requirements by successfully completing a challenge for each course.
The cost for each challenge is $350 + GST, out of town prices may vary. If you are interested in the Challenge Process, please contact the Winnipeg Transition Centre.
Also of interest may be some of the services offered in our "For Job Seekers" section.
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