Career Services
Career Services (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the second lesson part of the Workforce Services lesson that introduces its participants to workforce services and related topics.
This lesson belongs to the Introduction to Careers session of the CNM Cyber Orientation. The Orientation is the second stage of the WorldOpp Pipeline.
Contents
Content
The predecessor lectio is Professional Portfolios.
Key terms
- Workforce service provider. Any provider of workforce services.
- Career counselor. A practitioner who advises on a particular occupation and/or industry using counseling techniques. The counselor's goal is to support the clients in making complex decisions and facing difficult situations in career exploration, career change, personal career development, and other career-related issues within their occupational and/or industry expertise. Those practitioners whose occupational and/or industry expertise is limited may use sources such as the Occupational Outlook Handbook and Occupational Information Network.
- Job coach. A practitioner who guides an employment candidate through a process of the landing of employment often without any industry and/or occupational expertise in the candidate's areas of interest.
- Employment consultant. A practitioner who provides expert advice in his or her particular area of the job market and/or workforce services.
- Job club. A non-profit group such as the Career Network Ministry that performs as a workforce service provider.
Career Network Ministry's logo - Government employment office. A government office that offers workforce services and, often, serves as an employment agency.
- Personal BOD. A group of key stakeholders in formulating and achieving one's career objectives. BOD refers to a board of directors in corporations.
- Workforce dealer.
- Mentor. Someone who possesses a certain area of expertise and who is willing to share this expertise with another person or persons who is willing to learn from the mentor.
- Employer-assisted development. Workforce development that is organized and/or supported by the employer.
- Guild. An organization of people who do the same job or have the same interests.
Script
- Workforce services are any services rendered to or benefit workers. They include career services and workforce development. Workforce service providers are workforce developers and a wide range of the entities that are in the business of career services. These services include career assistance, job search support, and employment placement.
- Employment placement is a service that educational institutions, employment agencies, and third-party recruiters offer to help workers find work.
- Job club. A non-profit group such as the Career Network Ministry that performs as a workforce service provider.
- Government employment office. A government office that offers workforce services and, often, serves as an employment agency.
- Personal BOD. A group of key stakeholders in formulating and achieving one's career objectives. BOD refers to a board of directors in corporations.
- Workforce dealer.
Mentor vs Job Coach is the successor lectio.
