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Career Development

Career development and counseling is the One-on-one or group assistance in exploration and decision making tasks related to choosing a major/occupation, transitions into the world of work or to further your education or pursue specialized training. Career counseling advisors assess your interests, personality, work values and skills in order to help you to explore career options regarding employment decisions, continuing education opportunities, deciding on a particular trade school or apprenticeship program.

A career is a course of successive situations that make up some activity. One can have a sporting career or a musical career, but most frequently "career" in the 21st century references a working existence: the series of jobs or positions by which one earns an income.

Our Corps Member Development Specialist is a certified Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF), certified trainer and an Offender Workforce Development Specialist Instructor (OWDS-I) and works very closely with Corps Members individually and collectively. The emphasis is on career awareness, exploration, decision-making, and educational planning. Whereby, one can make sound employment and/or educational decisions. Career development is a life long learning process.

Job/School Placement  

During their time with the Montgomery County Conservation Corps, Corps Members have learned very valuable work, interpersonal and employability skills. Members must demonstrate their abilities to conduct a job search, role play in mock interviews, perform online research on their career interest, discuss the proper attire to wear while conducting a job search or to an employment interview. Under some circumstances a Corps Member may participate in an internship program to obtain meaningful work experience that may very well lead to employment at their work site. Obtaining employment or enrolling in an education/vocation program is the desired outcome for all Corps Members that have a successful tenure with the Montgomery County Conservation Corps. Our Corps Member Development Specialist will work very hard with Corps Members to make this happen.