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Cal Crow
Thursday, July 15, 2010, 10 am Pacific, 11 am Mountain, 12 pm Central, 1 pm EST, 2 pm Atlantic, 6 pm Zurich, 7 pm Instanbul
Career Counseling Strategies that Work for Everyone
Regardless of the people we work with, or the barriers they bring with them, four elements should be part of every career counseling relationship. These are identity, self-efficacy, resiliency and outcome expectancy, all major contributors to success in education and work. If these aren’t addressed, the likelihood of a positive outcome is greatly minimized. Participants in this session will learn why these elements are essential, and acquire knowledge and skill sets guaranteed to increase their success rates, even with customers that are difficult to serve.
Bio
Cal Crow is an educator, trainer and consultant committed to helping individuals maximize their strengths, skills, talents and interests and realize their dreams. He has designed and delivered programs for educators at all levels, corrections agencies, offenders, workforce development and welfare systems, mental health agencies, private sector employers, and not-for-profit organizations. He was one of three individuals selected to revise the National Career Development Guidelines, a project funded by the U.S. Department of Education. Cal has presented and consulted in forty-five states and territories, the District of Columbia, Australia, Jamaica and Canada, on a variety of topics: learning, counseling and communication skills, handling conflict, motivation, resiliency, self-efficacy, systems thinking, chaos and complexity, and positive psychology. Cal holds a Ph.D. from Arizona State University, and has received numerous awards for his work in education and workforce development. His materials and ideas are being used in many parts of the world.
Activity: Nine Typical Customers
Imagine that a group of unsuccessful job seekers is in a room, describing their struggle to find employment. They include the nine people indicated below. Briefly describe the “theme” of each individual’s discussion, i.e., how would they explain the cause of their difficulty in becoming employed? Consider for each person four elements, all major contributors to success in education and work, that should be part of every career counseling relationship:
- identity
- self-efficacy
- resiliency
- outcome expectancy
The Person | The Theme | ||
A person over fifty-five years of age | |||
A dislocated factory worker | |||
An ex-offender | |||
A veteran of the Iraq/Afghanistan conflicts | |||
A person with a visible disability | |||
A person with a non-visible disability | |||
A recently graduated college student | |||
A nineteen-year-old high school dropout
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Prepared by Cal Crow, Ph. D., Center for Learning Connections, Highline Community College, MS 99-285, PO Box 98000, Des Moines, WA 98198-9800 Phone 206-870-3783, Fax 206-870-5915, email ccrow@highline.edu www.learningconnections.org
Contact
Cal Crow, Ph. D.
Program Director
Center for Learning Connections
Highline Community College
PO Box 98000
Des Moines, WA 98198-9800
206-870-3783 FAX 206-870-5915
www.learningconnections.org
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Introduction
This is Dr. Sally Gelardin, for Careerwell Tele-Interviews. For those of you who listended to Elisabeth Harney Sanders-Park tele-interview, I would like to publically thank Cal Crow, our guest speaker today, for contacting hundreds of interested workforce professionals, encouraging them to listen to her interview on helping people with barriers to find jobs. This is typical of Cal's commitment to helping individuals maximize their strengths, skills, talents and interests and realize their dreams. He has designed and delivered programs for educators at all levels, corrections agencies, offenders, workforce development and welfare systems, mental health agencies, private sector employers, and not-for-profit organizations. He was one of three individuals selected to revise the National Career Development Guidelines. Cal has presented and consulted thoughout the U.S. and around the world. Welcome Cal.
Interview Questions
You mention four elements, all major contributors to success in education and work, that should be part of every career counseling relationship:
- identity
- self-efficacy
- resiliency
- outcome expectancy
I am going to ask you to explain how each element contributes to success in education and work.
- First, what is identity and how can it contribute to success in education and work?
- What is self-efficacy and how can it contribute to success in education and work?
- What is resiliency and how can it contribute to success in education and work?
- What is outcome expectancy and how can it contribute to success in education and work?
- How did you come to help write the National Career Development Guidelines? How are these guidelines used around the country? around the world? Could you give examples?
- Please tell us a bit about the origin of the guidelines, including NOIC, SOICs, and how the Washington Occupational Information System became involved.
- Could you give listeners an overview of how career development information systems are provided in the U.S., including the recent merger of America's Career Resource Network Association (ACRNA) and The Association of Computer-Based Systems for Career Information (ASCI)?
Closing
Listeners, stay tuned for upcoming July Tele-Interviews...
- July 15, 2010 (this evening) Lisa Rueff, What I Learned from the Haitian People about Valuing
- July 22, 2010, Harry R. Moody, Boomers Ayond - Networking from the Inside Out to find Meaningful Work and a Meaningful Life (he will talk about dream interpretation and give us an update on cutting edge associations that support the career development of boomers and beyond)
- July 29, 2010, Tony Watts, Career Development and Public Policy