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CS139 - Skills-Based Coaching for Career Support Professionals

Career advisors face an enduring professional reality: Employers ultimately prioritize what candidates can demonstrate over what credentials they possess. If your coaching still centers on résumé formatting and degree titles, you may be leaving your learners underprepared for the conversations that define career success.

This course equips you with the language, techniques, and frameworks to apply a skills-based approach, one that surfaces transferable competencies, translates experience into employer-ready language, and builds the self-advocacy and confidence learners need to compete. You will learn to read job postings strategically, coach learners through resistance, and integrate skills-based coaching across your entire service arc. You will leave with practical tools for your very next advising session.