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2011 Annual Kick-Off Event, August 26, 2011

“Author! Author! An Evening Roundtable with Published Career SMEs”

Meet local Atlanta career authors as they showcase their contributions to career development.
Network with GCDA members and learn about our organization. Members and non-members welcome.

AUTHORS:

Hallie Crawford, MA, CPCC - Flying Solo: Career Transition Tips for Singles

Hallie is a certified career coach, speaker and author whose company, Create Your Career Path, helps people identify their ideal career paths, navigate their career transitions, and nurture their careers. She has served on the board of the Georgia Coach Association and is regularly featured as a career expert in such media as CNN, Fox Business News, The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo HotJobs, Forbes.com and Entrepreneur magazine.

Diane Crompton and Ellen Sautter - Find a Job Through Social Networking

Diane is a Social Media Strategist / Enthusiast and a Career Coach skilled in providing a broad range of solutions for companies and individuals interested in using social media to build their brand and their business.

Ellen is a Career Consultant with expertise in delivering and marketing broad range of career services for outplacement, search and recruiting, and training and development companies.


Skip Freeman - Headhunter Hiring Secrets

Skip is the proprietor of The HTW Group (Hire to Win), an Atlanta-area executive search firm that over the last seven years has successfully completed more than 300 executive search assignments. Specializing in the placement of sales, engineering, manufacturing and R&D professionals in industry, Skip is the author of Headhunter Hiring Secrets: The Rules of the Hiring Game Have Changed . . . Forever!


Richard Kirby, CMC, CPC - Fast Track Your Job Search (and Your Career!)

A Certified Management Consultant, Certified Personnel Consultant and Executive Career Consultant, Richard provides a comprehensive career transition programs for mid-level and senior managers seeking more from their business careers. In 2009, he published his Fast Track Your Job Search (and Career!) book as a 21st century replacement for the outdated standards of What Color Is Your Parachute and Rites of Passage.

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January 7, 2011 - Dr. Jennifer B. Kahnweiler's "The Introvert’s Path to Career Success"
(This event was the first combined GACE/GCDA event!  We were delighted to collaborate with GACE on this workshop.)


Did you know that most people consider themselves introverted in certain situations? Not surprisingly, job search—with its high-energy demands for networking and interviewing skills—qualifies as one of those situations for many career-services clients. In our extroverted business culture, introverts can feel excluded, overlooked, or misunderstood. But being an introvert doesn't have to stand in the way of career success. Citing examples of highly successful leaders like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, Jennifer Kahnweiler shows that introverts can build on their quiet strength and make it a source of great power. During this half-day workshop, Jennifer Kahnweiler will provide career coaches—whether Extroverting or Introverting in their own preferences—with insight into the special challenges introverts face and how to help them successfully navigate their chosen career paths. . Jennifer B. Kahnweiler, Ph.D., is a workplace and careers expert and author of The Introverted Leader: Building on Your Quiet Strength. Founder and president of AboutYOU, Inc., an Atlanta-based leadership consultancy, she is an executive coach and corporate speaker. She is a frequent source for national media and a former workplace advice columnist for AARP, SHRM, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Jennifer was selected as a featured work-life expert on the TBS television show “Movie and a Makeover” and also received the highest honor from the National Career Development Association. [3CEUs earned]

August 20, 2010- Annual Kick-Off: Secrets to Uncovering Hot, Cold, Green, and Emerging Jobs, David Harris, & Charlotte Hayes

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May 2010 - PDI Becoming a LifeStyle Editor, Dr. Pam Brott

October 16, 2009 - Leigh Moore, Government Job Processes & Opportunities

 

NOTE: Great preparation for the November offering by Georgia State University - Government Fair & Career Development

Presenter: Leigh Moore

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Leigh Moore, President of Bridge Career Management, Inc., is a Career Coach, Trainer, Human Resources Generalist and Certified Federal Job Search Trainer with more than 15 years of experience in human resources, career coaching, resume writing, performance improvement and classroom facilitation. As a Career Coach and Outplacement Consultant, Leigh is well versed in all aspects of career exploration and transition, including hiring practices, job offer evaluation/negotiation, interviewing skills, job search strategies and salary determination. Leigh has assisted clients downsized from The Coca Cola Company, Georgia Pacific, Wachovia Bank, BellSouth, AT&T, Prudential, Scientific Atlanta and other small to mid-sized companies in making successful career transitions. She has served as Co-Manager of a Career Center for BB&T, and as a Job Developer she has sourced positions for downsized employees in multiple career centers..

Friday, August 28 - Online Networking/Personal Branding

Program 3:00-5:00 PM with Social Networking opportunity following (5:00-7:00 PM): Oglethorpe University's Museum of Art

Presenters: Otis Collier and Walter Akana

Walter Akanais founder of a private practice, Threshold Consulting, and he is a Senior Career Management Consultant with Right Management's Atlanta office. At both Right and through Threshold Consulting, Walter provides a range of services to a diverse array of clients in career transition. In addition, he works with fast-track executives on blending the power of their own brands to serve the larger corporate brands they serve. He is also a blogger and active user of social media, including LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. Walter’s blend of experience is truly unique. A full-time Career Consultant since 2001, Walter has more than 20+ years in senior training roles with extensive work in corporate and investment banking, at firms, including SunTrust and Wachovia in Atlanta, were he now resides.

.In New York, he ran Credit Suisse’s Corporate Finance and Capital Markets program for international bankers, and provided career guidance to program participants; and he oversaw leadership and professional development for the Western Hemisphere. He also has experience in retail merchandising, and prior to that he was a social worker providing career counseling to young adults in New York’s South Bronx. Walter holds an M.S. from Columbia University and a B.A., Psychology from the State University of New York. He is a Certified Retirement Coach, and a Certified Strategist in Personal Branding and Online Identity.

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Otis Collier is a seasoned Certified Internet Recruitment Trainer with hands-on experience in the areas of internet and diversity recruiting, candidate sourcing, and core recruitment skills training. Mr. Collier has consulted with clients on a wide variety of corporate recruiting issues. His services include training, recruiting, and sourcing. He is also the author of an e-book titled, “You Don’t Know SQUAT About Job Hunting“. Mr. Collier’s professional clientele list includes Starbucks, Indy Mac Bank, Northrop Grumman, Citibank, Abbott Laboratories, Google, and Microsoft.

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With over fifteen years of experience in military and civilian recruiting, Mr Collier is considered one of the country’s top experts in e-recruiting. Her has traveled across the United States teaching well over 5,000 recruiters the art of passive candidate mining via the web. He is the previous Director of Corporate Training for the well known recruitment solutions company, AIRS. Currently with Wachovia Corporation as the Assistant Vice President of Training and Development, Collier is responsible for the company’s entire recruitment and staffing division. He is also the Director of Entrepreneurship and Professional Development at Kingdom Builders Christian Center in Norcross, Georgia. Otis has interests in business, marketing, training, and personal development. He enjoys experimenting with new technology and applying it to practical real life applications. He currently spends his spare time mentoring and coaching business professionals on how to become recognized experts in their field of work.

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Following presentation, stay for the GCDA RECEPTION and Annual Kick-off in the Oglethorpe Museum with refreshments and cash bar. Attendees eligible for door-prizes and 10% discount for Museum's gift shop.

Free event to 2009-10 members

May 15, 2009 - Professional DeveIopment Institute Workshop

“Career Coaching Intensive” Workshop (sold out) 

March 18-19, 2009 Mercer University – Atlanta Campus

Two-day intensive skill development to learn how to use today’s cutting-edge tools and techniques for moving your clients toward change!

Co-sponsored by National Association of Colleges & Employers (NACE) and Georgia Career Development Association (GCDA) 

 www.naceweb.org/education/careercoach/default.htm

NBCC CEU’s available

February 13 Career Paths: The Entrepreneurial Option

Presenter: Bonnie Bailey, GCDA Member 

What constitutes entrepreneurship? How does the “E-option” compare to other career choices? What can you do as a career counselor—and what tools and resources are out there—to help your clients explore entrepreneurship as a viable career path? These are some of the questions that will be answered in this interactive workshop.

[3 CEUs earned]

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Featuring Dr. John Krumboltz author of Social Learning Theory of Career Decision-Making (SLTCDM) Happenstance Learning Theory

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Friday, October 8, 2010 - The Changin Dynamics of Career Counseling

(Full-Day Workshop for GCDA at Mercer University in Atlanta)

From Vocational Choice to Career Management and Transition

A One-Day Workshop With Career Counselor Richard Knowdell

While Dick Knowdell has been a “Career Development Professional” for the last 40 years, his many assignments from counselor educator and human resource manager to outplacement consultant and executive coach have given him a unique perspective on how "career counseling" has evolved into “change management”. Knowdell will share a number innovations he has observed that he believes can make us more effective career professionals for the 21st Century. These observations include: • The differences between career coaching and career counseling • The value of informal assessments • The effectiveness of group rather than one-on-one sessions • How career counselors can become entrepreneurs • How career counselors can provide effective expert testimony Knowdell plans to alternate his presentation between lecture, demonstration, discussion, assessment instruments and experiential exercises. Each participant will receive a complete set of his recently revised card sort assessments: • Career Values card sort and worksheet • Motivated Skills card sort and worksheet • Leisure/Retirement Activities card sort and worksheet • Occupational Interests card sort and worksheet

RICHARD L. KNOWDELL, MS, NCC, NCCC, CCMF is the President of Career Research & Testing, Inc., author of six books, including Building a Career Development Program: Nine Steps for Effective Implementation. In 1995, President Clinton appointed him to the Board of Examiners of the United States Foreign Service. He has developed four popular career assessment instruments that have been translated into nine languages. He is a past president of the California Career Development Association (CCDA) and the Silicon Valley Chapter of ACP International. Knowdell established a private career counseling and consulting practice in 1971 and trained and supervised the counseling staff. In the 1980s he founded an Executive Outplacement Firm that provided services for 51 Silicon Valley firms. In the 1990s he served as an executive coach at several Silicon Valley firms. He established one of the first successful Employee Career Development Programs at a national research and development laboratory. He has served as a consultant on employee career development to numerous Fortune 500 organizations and delivered presentations at human resource conferences in Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and North America. He taught courses in employee career development to human resource managers at San Jose State University and career assessment techniques to professional career counselors at the University of California-San Diego. Over 500,000 of Knowdell's career assessment card sort instruments have been sold and are used extensively with adults in university, social service, business, outplacement and private practice settings. He has served as an expert witness on employment issues in family law, personal injury, medical malpractice and wrongful termination cases in California Superior Courts and in Federal Court.