Career
Decision Making
Career Decision Making is an interactive group based session that is designed to meet the needs of both the individual that is investigating whether changing careers is an option and those seeking a definite career change.
In CDM you will review the basics of Career Decision Making evaluating your strengths in relation to key elements and labour trends. At the end of week one you will have gained the information required to self evaluate if you should be seeking a Career Change Up or a total Career Change.
Individuals completing CDM will have all the data and assessment
results needed to support realistic and achievable career change
outcomes.
Career Decision Making is progressive in nature building on the information and assessments.
Individuals seeking a Career change will have an opportunity to focus on assessing personal interests and intellectual abilities, exploring
education and training and developing a successful career
decision that may include applying for Federally Funded
training dollars under Skills Development Employment Benefit.
Résumé & Cover Letter Humor
These items were taken from real résumés and cover letters and were printed in the July 21, 1997 issue of Fortune Magazine.
- I demand a salary commiserate with my extensive experience.
- I have lurnt Word Perfect 6.0 computor and spreadsheet progroms.
- I received a plague for Salesperson of the Year.
- Wholly responsible for two (2) failed financial institutions.
- Reason for leaving last job: maturity leave.
- Failed bar exam with relatively high grades.
- It's best for employers that I not work with people.
- Let's meet, so you can "ooh" and "aah" over my experience.
- You will want me to be Head Honcho in no time.
- I was working for my mom until she decided to move.
- Marital status: single. Unmarried. Unengaged. Uninvolved. No commitments.
- I am loyal to my employer at all costs. Please feel free to respond to my résumé on my office voice mail.
- My goal is to be a meterologist. Without any training in meteorology, I suppose I should try stock brokerage.
- I have become completely paranoid, trusting completely no one and absolutely nothing.
- I procrastinate, especially when the task is unpleasant.
- Personal interests: donating blood. Fourteen gallons so far.
- As indicted, I have over five years of analyzing investments.
- Instrumental in ruining entire operation for a Midwest chain store.
- Note: Please don't misconstrue my 14 jobs as "job-hopping." I have never quit a job.
- Marital status: often. Children: various.
- Reason for leaving last job: They insisted that all employees get to work by 8:45 a.m. every morning. I couldn't work under those conditions
- The company made me a scapegoat, just like my three previous employers.
- Finished eighth in my class of ten.
- References: none. I've left a path of destruction behind me.