Global Career Development Facilitator

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Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF) is an international certificate issued in the USA by the Center for Credentialing and Education (CCE), a subsidiary of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) for professionally or paraprofessionally working so-called Job Facilitators (helpers with Job search) and career consultants (employment and career advisors , study and career advisors, counseling teachers, employment agencies , integration coaches, etc.). In Canada, New Zealand, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia and Germany, the certificate is awarded by the national branches of NBCC International. The certificate complies with the requirements that the IAEVG and the NBCC have defined as the standard for educational and professional practitioners.

General

From 1999 to 2019 over 34,000 people were certified in 11 countries worldwide, of which (as of 2011–15) over 10,200 in the USA, approx. 3,900 in Japan, 2,100 in China, 800 in Bulgaria, 800 in Germany, 290 in Romania, in Turkey 90. Of these, around 12,000 are active.

In contrast to the work of the counselor , the work of a facilitator (helper, supporter) does not require a master’s degree. The authors of the curriculum assume that successful job placement and career counseling does not necessarily require a degree in psychology or counseling. More important, however, are a strong methodological structure, the previous practical professional experience of the facilitator and his knowledge of various professional fields, as well as the degree of his networking and his ability to develop relationships with clients and employers. Therefore, the training is primarily designed as further training for practitioners or as additional training for teachers and consultants who take on tasks of professional orientation (e.g. required by law for secondary schools in South Carolina and also in Turkey). Also career changers in job placement and human resource management use the training. However, the modules have also been integrated into academic master’s courses in several countries.

Content of the training

The training comprises 120 (in Germany up to 160) hours and 12 topics:

  • Support and interviewing techniques
  • Procurement of labor market information
  • Tests, profiling and assessment techniques
  • Diversity of the target groups
  • Ethical and legal issues of advice
  • Models of career development
  • Job Search Strategies
  • Training methods
  • Program management and program implementation
  • public relations
  • New technologies and social networks
  • Consultation and supervision techniques

The training is adapted to the national situation and cultural characteristics. In some cases - but not exclusively - the techniques of client-centered communication by Carl Rogers are used. Many of the US GCDFs work at the US Department of Labor's Career One Stop Centers . In Germany, the certificate is particularly widespread among job centers and optional municipalities , with the 50plus employment pacts as well as with educational institutions, career services at universities and in the field of vocational rehabilitation and staff transfers . Great emphasis is placed on ongoing quality assurance in practical application. For certification, not only a theoretical and practical test, but also proof of long-term relevant practice under supervision as well as permanent training and the recognition of a code of ethics are prerequisites.

In the USA (initially through the National Employment Counseling Association ), Canada and Germany (since 2013) the training is also offered in online form, in Singapore as blended learning .

history

The curriculum for the training of GCDF (originally: Career Development Facilitator - CDF) was developed by Oakland University in Rochester (Michigan) in 1994/95 on the basis of a needs analysis by the National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (NOICC), which was later dissolved . The aim was to meet the foreseeable increasing need for advice given the upheavals in the global labor markets and at the same time to encourage uniform quality standards. The Clinton administration also provided impetus for this, v. a. by US Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich . The rights to the curriculum were transferred to the National Career Development Association (NCDA) in 2000 . Since 1997, graduates have been certified by the Center for Credentialing in Education (CCE), a subsidiary of the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC).

The GCDF is offered by many commercial and non-commercial local partners in many countries, including a. also as a correspondence course from the US National Employment Counseling Association . In 2005 the curriculum was adapted for Germany by the IUK Institute Dortmund and a. also tested by the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences . EBCC (European Board for Certified Counselors) was founded in Lisbon in 2008 and NBCC Germany in Dortmund in 2009, which further spread the GCDF in Europe. In February 2011, the NBCC Germany Award for innovative and sustainable services in the field of counseling and placement of jobseekers was given to the Alpha 50+ project of INQUA gGmbH Halle for the first time.

At the end of 2015, the face-to-face course in Germany was expanded in favor of more target-group-specific offers, e.g. B. set for the labor integration of refugees. However, the methodology is particularly suitable in courses for practitioners and "lateral entrants" of the job centers and institutions, who rarely have the relevant certificates, and is therefore still used.

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  1. ↑ cce-global.org
  2. ^ GCDF in Today's Labor Market. GCDF Connection Winter 2011  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / cdf-global.org
  3. ^ Website of the GCDF Singapore
  4. ↑ Barbara Weißbach, Hans-Jürgen Weißbach: Competency assessment and advisory competencies in the work integration of refugees. In: Information & Communication. H. 37, 2016, IUK Institute Dortmund. ISSN  0939-4605 .

Bibliography

  • K. Brawley: Working ahead: The National One-Stop Workforce System and Career Development Facilitator curriculum training for instructors. In: Careers Across America 2002: Best Practices and Ideas in Career Development Conference Proceedings. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED465911) 2002, pp. 27-32.
  • Center for Credentialing in Education: Global Career Development Facilitator. 2007. (cce-global.org)
  • D. Furbish, RA Neault, D. Pickerell: The Global Career Development Facilitator Credential: An International Perspective. In: Journal of Employment Counseling. Vol. 46, No. 4, December 2009, pp. 187-189.
  • HH Splete, J. Hoppin: The emergence of career development facilitators. In: Career Development Quarterly. Volume 48, 2000, pp. 340-347.
  • B. Weissbach, H.-J. Weißbach with the collaboration of H. Urmann, M. Wiecha u. a .: The job promoter: Further education curriculum. 2 volumes. Dortmund / Frankfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-924100-40-7 and ISBN 978-3-924100-41-4 .

Magazines

  • The GCDF Connection. CCE, Greensboro, NC (since 2002; since 2011 only as electronic publication)

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