Facilitating Career Development - Overview
This program is for professionals who want to get trained and certified in career development. The fourth edition of the Facilitating Career Development (FCD) (formerly “Career Development Facilitator” – CDF) program is the official 120-hour professional development program developed by the National Career Development Association (NCDA). It was designed to give individuals, in a variety of workplace settings, an overview of the knowledge and skills needed to effectively support other people to find career satisfaction. The core curriculum addresses the areas of competency required for the Certified Career Services Provider (CCSP) credential series. (Individuals who possess a master’s degree or higher in counseling are eligible to apply for the Certified Career Counselor [CCC] credential).
Core Competencies:
Helping Skills: Be proficient in the basic career facilitating process while including productive interpersonal relationships.
Labor Market Information and Resources: Understand labor market and occupational information and trends. Be able to use current resources.
Assessment: Comprehend and use (under supervision) both formal and informal career development assessments with emphasis on relating appropriate ones to the population served.
Diverse Populations: Recognize special needs of various groups and adapt services to meet their needs.
Ethical and Legal Issues: Follow the NCDA Code of Ethics and know current legislative regulations.
Career Development Models: Understand career development theories, models, and techniques as they apply to lifelong development, gender, age, and ethnic background.
Employability Skills: Know job search strategies and placement techniques, especially in working with specific groups.
Training Clients and Peers: Prepare and develop materials for training programs and presentations.
Program Management/Implementation: Understand career development programs and their implementation, and work as a liaison in collaborative relationships.
Promotion and Public Relations: Market and promote career development programs with staff and supervisors.
Technology: Comprehend and use career development computer applications.
Consultation: Accept suggestions for performance improvement from consultants or supervisors.
Optional Additional Curriculum to Meet Individual’s Learning Goals:
The current edition (4th) includes optional chapters for participants who work with the following:
Business Services and Employer Relations
Clients with Disabilities
Clients who are justice involved
K-12 Students
Workforce and Career Development History
Additional Options From Instructor:
Higher Education
Working with the unemployed, college-educated, and/or experienced professionals
Faith-based settings and individuals
Instructor will work with participants to develop unique, optional modules to address participant’s individual learning goals.
This program provides an overview of what an individual would learn in a three-year career counseling master’s degree program. It is suitable to individuals who want to become competent at assisting others with career issues, but do not want to invest the time, money and energy in pursuing the full three-year career counselor degree program. Because the curriculum is written in such clear, concise, simple language and ideas, this program is suitable for individuals who have at least a high school diploma.
Please note: While this program does cover the ethical use of assessments, it does not qualify participants to purchase and use specific career assessments. Individuals who wish to pursue assessment certification should contact the assessment publisher directly for information on how to meet certification requirements for each assessment tool to be used.
Individuals can sign up for a pre-scheduled class. Open-access classes are generally offered as hybrid – online to suit adults’ needs for flexible schedules. However, the program requires mandatory 24 hours of face-to-face instruction, which may be conducted via video conferencing.
Institutions can request that a class be tailored to their unique needs. Classes can be offered primarily online or in-person, based on needs and preference.
Outcomes:
Certificate of Completion
12 CEUs
Discount on one-year membership to National Career Development Association (NCDA) to first-time members
Eligible to apply for the CCSP credential. Eligible individuals meeting additional requirements can also apply for more advanced credentials, including Certified Master of Career Services [CMCS|, Certified Career Counselor [CCC], Certified Clinical Supervisor of Career Counseling [CCSCC], Certified Career Counselor Educator [CCCE], Certified School Career Development Advisor [CSCDA].
Individuals meeting additional requirements are encouraged to become a registered Global Career Development Facilitators (GCDF)
Credential holders are eligible to register to be on an exclusive registry on the NCDA website for certified career services providers.
Who Should Consider Taking This Program?
Individuals who work in a variety of settings assisting people who are dealing various phases of the career development process (see link “So How Do You Find and Get Your Dream Job?”) would benefit from this training. Understanding the career development process, and how the population you serve is affected by it, will help you to help them more effectively.
Anyone who wants to work with individuals in the following settings:
Education (Higher Education and K-12): Faculty, counselors, administrators and support staff who address career-related, major selection, course-work selection, and/or job-search issues with their students
Government: Federal, state, county, and city government entities and their employees that serve populations dealing with education, career, job search, professional development, or transition issues.
Military: education, job search, career and transition counselors and support staff
Workforce Development: Career advisors, career coaches, mental health counselors, workshop presenters, business services liaisons, administrators and support staff
Business and private practice practitioners: Human resources professionals, financial planners, lawyers, career coaches, life coaches, and their support staff
Non-profit organizations: Non-profit organizations and their employees that serve populations dealing with education, career, or transition issues
Faith-based communities: Pastors, clergy, youth leaders, lay counselors, mentors who deal with adults and young adults regarding college and career transition issues
Mental Health Professionals and other Skilled Helpers: Psychologists, social workers, case managers, life coaches and others whose client’s concerns overlap with education and career- and transition-related issues.
Instructor’s Areas of Expertise and Experience
The instructor is an experienced community college education and career counselor and professor. She has worked for community colleges and public and private universities since 1997. She also is also a private practice consultant, and has volunteer experience supporting the unemployed through conducting workshops in a local workforce development career one-stop center, and leading a support group for the unemployed in a faith-based community. Through her over 20 years of experience, she has developed a wealth of knowledge and created many written resources designed to facilitate individual’s education and career development journey. In addition to the standard FCD program curriculum, students of her FCD program will be introduced, and have access to, those resources.
College students (basic-skills students to those possessing advanced degrees)
Adults in transition (all ages)
The unemployed (including workforce development clientele)
Diverse populations (demographic, active-duty military, veterans, disabled, education attained, work experience, career goals, and academic preparedness)
Individuals who have struggled with ‘poor fit’ between person, job and/or environment
Higher Education (Community college, state universities and private, faith-based liberal arts universities)
Faith-based individuals and communities
Teaching and counseling on the self-awareness process
Job Search Services/Coaching
Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and other career assessments
Teach life and success skills
NCDA Instructor bio page
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Capability Statement is available upon request
Individuals Who Want to Attend, or Institutions Who Want to Schedule Training, Should Contact the Instructor Directly:
