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Personal Career Development
Our Personal Career Development Certificate Programs are for those desiring the tools for personal advancement, and those in the position of Career Advisement & Development for others.
For your own career, develop your personal toolbox of leadership, communication and organizational tools that will take you to the next professional level. Discover the current career ladder trends and the job search tools needed to help you climb the corporate ladder.
Global Career Development Facilitation Certification
Become a Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF). (Click link for course description, where you may register online.) This 90-hour course will develop or enhance your career in career development. Gain international certification and choose from among a variety of career development occupations. Students can expect approximately 30 hours of homework while completing this program. This course meets on UNM�s main campus, Student Services Center, Room 220. Lunch is provided at each session. This course earns a Global Career Development Facilitator Certification from UNM Continuing Education. You must attend ALL class sessions in order to be Certified.
Visit www.NCDA.org for further information. To attend, you must have a Bachelor’s degree in any field, and be seriously committed to acquiring, or currently working in, a career advisement position.
Contact: Jenna Sultemeier Crabb, jennas@unm.edu, for questions about this program.
Contact: Marie, Program Supervisor, (505) 277-0723 or prodev@dce.unm.edu, for registration questions, program admittance, or to be placed on the waiting list. You must attend ALL class sessions in order to be Certified.
New Classes
- Thinking Out of the Box in 7 Easy Steps: New Principles in Problem Solving: NEW Have you ever received an assignment that leaves you wondering how to get started? Do you find yourself in situations in which you do not know what to do next? Has there been time you were working on one task . . . Click link for more.
- Effective Writing for Professional Success:NEW Learn to write or rewrite text for organization, clarity, and transitions between ideas; proofread; and format for consistency. You will be guided on how to correct mechanical errors like grammar, sentence structure, spelling, punctuation, word usage; . . Click link for more.
- SYBAT (So You’ve Been Asked To): Lead a Meeting:NEW You step to the front of the room and all eyes are on you waiting expectantly. What do you say? How do you prepare for that moment before the meeting? What kinds of tools will help you keep the group on track so the . . Click link for more.
- SYBAT (So You’ve Been Asked To): Take Notes:NEW The details of event planning can threaten to overwhelm the best of us. From developing a theme to arranging for cleanup, the key is organization and preparation. An event planner supervises and coordinates the strategic, operational and logistical activities . . Click link for more.
- Can’t We All Just Get Along: Using Myers Briggs in the Workplace:NEW Why is it that some job tasks are fun and easy while others make you want to trade them in for a root canal? How come some of your colleagues are pleasant to work with and others make you want to run off screaming? This lively session examines . . Click link for more.
New Online Classes
- Get Your Career on the Fast Track : NEW Learn more about today�s new business environmen, about yourself and how to work with your strengths and weaknesses to improve your position... Click link for more.
- Basic Business Skills to Get You on the Fast Track : NEW Everyone wants to get on the fast track to success. But without basic business skills, you won’t even find the on ramp. . . Click link for more.
- Communication Skills to Fast-track Your Career : NEW Communicate with the best of them, sharpen your listening skills and improve your written and oral communication skills. . . Click link for more.
- Interpersonal Skills on the Fast Track : NEWYou’re not alone in the race, so you’d better learn how to work with others if you want to put your career on the fast track. . . Click link for more.
- The Boss Factor : NEW Your boss can make or break you, so you better find out how to work effectively with her. You must first build rapport and continue to develop it. . . Click link for more.
- Improving Your Image : NEW Lee Iacocca. Madeleine Albright. Colin Powell. Are these people who suffer from an image problem? Hardly. Learn the all-important tools that promote powerful communication, self-marketing, and leadership. . . Click link for more.
- Fast-Tracking Your Career Simulation : NEW The business world is ever changing, and business professionals are faced with many choices when considering career planning. . . Click link for more.
- How to Excel at Customer Service:NEW This course is designed to take your goals beyond merely satisfying the customer to creating customer loyalty. The training takes aim at outdated modes of thinking, and establishes the building blocks for a service mentality that increases customer commitment, not to mention profits. . . Click link for more.
These are online classes. Dates and times are placeholders only. A class is taken on your own computer at the times and dates that are convenient to you.
Find out more
Use the link to the left to go to our current Personal Career Development courses. (Course links open in a new window.) On that page, click on a course title to review the course description or register online.
Chart your course to success with our Global Career Development Facilitator Certification. The course titles on this page are linked to the course descriptions, so you may review the dates and plan your enrollments. (Note: Fulfilling a certificate is not required to take any Continuing Education course.)
Contact
For information call 277-0723 or email: prodev@dce.unm.edu
