Workshop Descriptions...


Career Planning (3 Days)
The Career Planning workshop provides information and activities to assist you in understanding and applying the Career Planning process.
Activities will include:

• Career Planning Process…What are the steps to career planning? Participants will take part in activities throughout the three days to ensure that they are confident in applying these steps to their Career Plan.
  
• Self-Discovery…Provides participants with written and interactive assessments for identifying their values, interests and abilities. The Career Decision Making System (booklet and map) is used to help narrow down some career possibilities for each client.
  
• Identifying career options and researching…After the assessments, participants will be able to identify careers using a hands-on approach with the www.alis.gov.ab.ca website. They will conduct in depth career research and document their research in a Career Investigation Report. The www.alis.gov.ab.ca website will also be used to introduce the latest labour market trends.
  
• Make a decision…Learning about the decision making process and how it relates to the career planning process will help participants make decisions about their career plans.
  
• Self-Confidence…Self-confidence and self-esteem are often tied together. In this session participants will review strategies for boosting self-confidence; such as how to focus on the positive, learn from failure and transfer it into success.
  
• Action planning…Create a step-by-step Client Investment Plan in collaboration with the Facilitator. This lesson will also introduce how to stay focused and on track during the Career Planning process. Ensuring that participants are capable of achieving their goal is top priority.