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Professional Development Institutes

Professional Development Institutes (PDI):

PDIs are pre-conference half-day workshops which provide 4 additional continuing education hours.  PDIs are carefully selected through a competitive review process and include more in-depth subject matter than regular conference presentations. PDIs are optional for conference attendees who search more professional development and continuing education hours. 

  1. How To Help People Create Their Own Luck
  2. Group Career Counseling: Principles and Practice
  3. Applying Cognitive Information Processing Theory to Career Counseling and Services
  4. Technology Tools for Beginners
  5. Issues of Social Justice and Career Development
  6. Effective Coaching Skills For Career Counselors
  8. Meet Employers Headquartered in Atlanta and Tour University Career Services at Georgia State University

Half-Day AM

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 ~ 8:00 am - 12:15 pm

PDI #1 How To Help People Create Their Own Luck
Clients need to learn how to create their own luck.  In explaining how they got a particular job, we often hear them say, “I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.”  Rarely do people take credit for the actions that put them in the right place at the right time.  This workshop is intended to empower counselors to take actions likely to create new opportunities for success.  People must learn how to overcome obstacles that block them from trying new activities.  They need not plan their entire future career—they need to engage in exploratory actions and take risks.  This workshop will teach participants how to maximize—not minimize—the impact of unplanned events.
John Krumboltz, Stanford University

 

PDI #2 Group Career Counseling: Principles and Practice
Group Career Counseling is a unique counseling intervention which uses the best of group counseling and group guidance. This presentation will provide both a definition and an overview of the principles of a group career counseling program followed by a demonstration of a structured group program. The latter will be accomplished through a fish bowl technique with stop action to process the demonstration and to point out the unique skills, stages, and competencies of this career development approach.
Richard Pyle, US Peace Corps

PDI #3 Applying Cognitive Information Processing Theory to Career Counseling and Services
CIP has impacted the career services field through research, practice, and programmatic interventions for over 20 years. Participants in this PDI will review the foundations of CIP and take away materials and skills for extending their work in a cost-efficient way. Counseling case studies and actual programmatic applications will be featured by presenters. Strategies for using the Career Thoughts Inventory and other readiness assessment methods for differentiated service delivery will be demonstrated.
Janet G. Lenz, Gary W. Peterson, Robert C. Reardon, and James P. Sampson, Jr., Florida State University, and Denise E. Saunders, Private Practice

PDI #4 Technology Tools for Beginners
Have you been wanting to learn how to use some useful technology tools, but have been too busy or too intimidated to give it a try? This PDI will address several popular tools and give you the basics to get you started on using these tools for your career development services.  Start with making your presence known in the right way on LinkedIn, tweet and blog your way to sharing your expertise with others, learn how to create online surveys to obtain feedback, and then create a website where you can share resources and collaborate with others. Instructors will presume you have no knowledge of these tools. Registrants will receive some preliminary assignments to complete prior to the workshop. *Registrants must bring their own laptop with wireless capabilities.
Paula Brand, Anne Arundel Workforce Development Corporation; Jennifer Williams, Capella University; Melissa A. Venable, OnlineCollege.org; Shirley Rowe, The University of Texas at San Antonio; and Janet Wall, Sage Solutions


Half-Day PM

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 ~  1:15 - 5:30 pm

PDI #5 Issues of Social Justice and Career Development
This presentation provides a discussion of pertinent social justice issues and theories as they relate to career counseling best practices. Practitioners will be provided with strategies and techniques that may enhance their knowledge and skills as they relate to career development practice with culturally diverse client populations. Practitioners will also be provided with a case study that illustrates the social and career path of a client over his lifespan.
S. Kent Butler, Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development and the University of Central Florida

 

PDI #6 Effective Coaching Skills For Career Counselors
In this session, the presenter will outline the similarities and differences between career counseling and career coaching skills; demonstrate effective career coaching skills and techniques; describe specific client situations where career coaching skills can be effectively used; and facilitate participant practice of career coaching techniques.
Richard L. Knowdell, Career Development Network


PDI #8 Meet Employers Headquartered in Atlanta and Tour University Career Services at Georgia State University
*This PDI will leave the Hyatt at 12:30 pm and return at 5:15 pm
Want to meet employers who are headquartered in Atlanta and learn about their career opportunities for your students?  Want to see how a comprehensive career center serves a campus of over 32,000 students?    Want to participate in a TBS, Inc. tour and meet a lead recruiter from Turner?  Join us for a fun afternoon with your colleagues at University Career Services at Georgia State University!
Kevin Gaw and Ramona Simien, Georgia State University


 

 

 

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