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Career Counselling, Coaching and Assessment

Bright and Associates

Introducing an authoritative new course in Career Counselling, Coaching and Assessment, facilitated by Dr Jim Bright.

This is a course for professionals looking:

ü To offer Career Counselling, Coaching and Assessment services to your clients, college, school or company

ü To develop new skills, or update your training with the latest developments

ü For an intensive course delivered by a subject matter authority

ü For a course that is based on evidence of best practise published in the leading international journals

Key Features

• Evidence-based - incorporating Jim’s research and teaching in careers, jobs, stress, learning and training since 1990
• Bringing together over 14 years of professional experience in training, client management and careers.
• Intensive – includes pre-course and evening assignments,
• Practical, and fun
• Opportunities for one-to-one coaching on your own career issues.
• Extensive course materials including

ü 4 books (Resumes that get shortlisted, Job Hunting for Dummies: Australia and New Zealand, Should I stay or should I go: how to make that crucial job hunt decision and TeamSmart®)

ü Extensive Course notes

ü 2- complete sets of Test materials including professional manuals, answer sheets, client profile sheets and job finders books

ü Total value of these materials in excess of $480

ü Includes morning & afternoon teas and luncheon each day

Outline

Insights into how career decisions are formulated	Enhance clients’ self-efficacy and abilities to engage in career exploration
Skills in providing practical job assistance advice	Determine clients’ work rewards and vocational interests
Improve personal resilience working with difficult clients	Instil clients’ with a view of work and careers that reflects current realities
Develop processes to assess clients with career transition	Go beyond simple matching approaches to careers
Integrate client test data with interview data to produce insightful and practical reports	Challenge clients’ career thoughts and develop effective strategies for career transition and job applications

Investment

Dates: click here Workshop dates Time: Where: see Workshop dates

Cost: $990 per person including GST (numbers limited to 15 people) Cost includes course materials, morning and afternoon tea & lunch daily EARLY BIRD RATE AVAILABLE FOR MANY COURSES

For further information contact Jacqui Greenhaf on (02) 9929 4766

or email jacqui@brightandassociates.com.au

$990 per person inclusive of GST for three days. Includes extensive pack of books, notes, resources and tests worth in excess of $480. Numbers strictly limited to 15 participants per workshop.

Schedule

Pre-Course	Circles of Influence Exercise
	Morning		Afternoon		Evening
Day 1	Career Choice		Career Counselling		Job Hunting advice exercise
session	1	2	3	4
	The what, why and who of Career Development	Traditional and new models of career choice. The Chaos theory of careers	Core Counselling Skills Key information	Active interviewing Using questions Empathy building Complexity counselling
Day 2	Job Applications, Selection Criteria and Interviews		Career Coaching		Self-assessment exercise
session	5	6	7	8
	Resumes, and application forms Resume critiques and exercises	Interviews, panel interviews, body language,curly questions, interview training	Roles Purpose Solution-focussed and cognitive behavioural techniques	Goals –why and when they don’t work Career indecision and self-limiting thinking
Day 3	Career Assessment		TeamSmart® / eService
session	9	10	11	12
	Assessing vocational interests – how to do it, and how to interpret the results	Assessing motivation – how to do it and how to interpret the results	Identifying stress in yourself and your clients Developing career resilience Practical strategies to remain focussed and on top of your game	Delivering career services: what works and what does not Resources Future development needs

Recognition and professional development

This course covers competencies included in the Australian Association of Careers Counsellors, the Australian Blueprint for Careers Counsellors, the Australian Psychological Society and other relevant professional associations. This course may provide the basis for recognised professional development through self-initiated routes. A certificate of attendance will be provided.

Course Dates and Bookings

Dates: Workshop dates Time: 9.00 am – 5.00PM Where: Mercure Hotel Sydney Martin Place Room 818-820 George St Sydney (at central station)

Cost: $990 per person including GST (numbers limited to 15 people) Cost includes course materials, morning and afternoon tea & lunch daily EARLY BIRD RATE

For further information contact Jacqui Greenhaft on (02) 9929 4766

or email jacqui@brightandassociates.com.au

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Telephone: (02) 9929 4766

Fax: (02) 9929 4768.

Email: workshop@brightandassociates.com.au

What professional careers counsellors say about previous workshops

Informative, experienced, reflective	Very interesting, entertaining!
Excellent – informative, funny, well-prepared.	Excellent – informative and entertaining.
Useful for practitioners to experience someone who has actively integrated theory and practice. Amusing and fun as well	Jim always gives a great presentation. Information very relevant to our job - stimulating and thought provoking
Very memorable – lovely delivery style and great info.	Excellent overview of career counselling as global life business
Good information, presentation, handouts and relevant PD	Very entertaining and informative session, got a lot out of it.

Additional Professional Development 1 – day Workshop

Advanced Career Assessment Techniques

This intensive 1-day workshop is designed for advanced professionals who have completed the JBA 3-day Career Counselling, Coaching and Assessment Course. The course is run in groups of no more than 8 people, and is highly interactive and practical. It is designed to provide extensive opportunities for individual assistance and coaching. The course introduces different methodologies for career assessment including:

ü Inventories,

ü Card-sort and

ü Internet-based assessment

It covers

ü personality, interests, motivation and skills.

ü Scoring and interpreting tests

ü Appropriate test choice for different clients

ü Report writing and interpretation

ü Combining data from different sources

ü Presenting and explaining the results to clients

ü New approaches to assessment and interpretation

ü Critically evaluating tests – what to look for and what tests can and cannot do

Participants will be provided with comprehensive course materials including test materials, and professional manuals.

Investment

$640 per person including GST. This includes a set of resources, tests and manuals worth over $500. These materials and tests do not replicate any materials included in the 3 day course.

Dates: Workshop dates Time: 9.00 am – 5.00pm Where: Mercure Hotel Sydney Martin Place Room 818-820 George St Sydney (at central station)

Cost: $640 per person including GST (numbers limited) Cost includes course materials, morning and afternoon tea & lunch daily

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For further information contact Jacqui Greenhaf on (02) 9929 4766

or email jacqui@brightandassociates.com.au

About the Presenter

Dr Jim Bright is a Partner in a career management professional practice Jim Bright and Associates (JBA). His clients range from individuals seeking coaching, assessment and job-hunting assistance to multi-national organizations requiring career development programmes, coaching and training. His individual clients range from school-age to CEOs. Based in Sydney, JBA has clients across Australia, in the UK, Germany and New Zealand. Through the Vocational Capacity Centre, he writes medico-legal reports in relation to compensation matters. He regularly runs workshops on careers around Australia.

Jim also teaches and researches Organisational Psychology at the University of New South Wales where he specialises in Career Development. He has taught the subject Career Choice and Development to Master (Organisational) Psychology students since 1995. He founded the Careers, Research and Assessment Service at UNSW in 2001. In addition he has supervised Masters and PhD theses in the area of careers. He has over 100 books, journal articles and presentations. Well over half of his journal publications have been in leading international publications. His most recent work has been the development of the new Chaos Theory of Career Development with his colleague and collaborator Dr Robert Pryor.

He is a regular keynote presenter and media commentator, particularly on the ABC radio Sally Loane show. Jim is the author of five books on careers: Should I stay or should I go? How to make that crucial job move decision (Pearson, 2003).  Job Hunting for Dummies: Australia and New Zealand (John Wiley 2001); Brilliant CV (Pearson, 2001); Resumes that get shortlisted (Allen and Unwin, 2000); Stress: Myth, theory and research (Pearson, 2001).  Brilliant CV has been in the UK top ten best selling business titles for the past year and is the number 1 best selling CV guide (Source: Booktrak).

Jim holds a BA (Hons) in Psychology from the University of Nottingham, UK and a PhD in learning from the same institution. He is a Professional Member of the Australian Association of Career Counsellors, a registered Psychologist and member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS). The immediate past national chairperson of the APS College of Organisational Psychologists (COP), he is also a past chairperson of the Sydney Section of COP. He is a member of the British Psychological Society, and a Chartered Psychologist.

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