Everyone has unique career needs and aspirations. To help you define your career and life paths, the Center for Professional Development offers career counseling, a highly individualized and supportive process during which you and your counselor work closely together. This process enables you to move at your own pace and plan around other commitments and needs in your life.

Each person is unique and will go through the process in a different way; however, the average client attends four to six one-hour appointments. The Center's career planning process involves:

• Self-Assessment
  Using a variety of worksheets and assessment tools, we help you clarify your skills, values, interests, personality traits, preferred work environment, desired interactions with people and career development needs. 
• Generating Career Options
  Through discussions with your career counselor and completion of various worksheets and standardized assessment inventories, we help you identify career options to consider. 
• Exploring Career Options
  We provide assistance in researching careers that interest you. We offer a Career Resources Library, full of information on a variety of career fields. We also help you prepare for information interviews and we'll teach you necessary book and internet research skills. 
• Setting Goals and Taking Action!
  With the help of your counselor, you will use our tools to establish goals and accomplish them. We can help you:
  
  1. Identify and implement career choices
  2. Find clarity on how to enhance your skills
  3. Make changes in your current job
  4. Seek a new job
  5. Plan further education
  6. Prepare for a job search
  7. Network
  8. Write a new resume
  9. Practice and prepare for interviews

  To accommodate busy schedules, we offer early morning, daytime, afternoon and evening appointments. Telephone counseling sessions are available upon request.

  Please call (860) 768-5619 for more information, to schedule an appointment, or to learn about our various payment options, including appointment packages and our sliding scale.

  Free Information Sessions on topics such as job search, resume writing and interviewing are held twice per month at the Center.
       Read about the Free Information Sessions