Career Development Professional
Career development professionals help individuals with career decisions by exploring and evaluating their clients’ education, training, work history, interests, skills, and personality traits. These professionals may also arrange for aptitude and achievement testing that can contribute to making effective career decisions.
In addition, career development professionals may assist individuals with job-search skills, as well as locating and applying for jobs. Or they may provide support to those who experience job loss, job stress, or career transitions.
The JFKU School of Management (SOM) offers a Master of Arts in Career Development, one of only a few such programs in the United States. Academic coursework in career theory, management techniques, and humanistic psychology balances with fieldwork that develops your practical skills and provides opportunities to apply classroom learning in professional environments. If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you may begin your fieldwork at JFKU’s Career Center in Pleasant Hill.
If you live outside the Bay Area, you can participate in our Career Development degree program through the field studies component that includes self-directed study using e-mail and phone contact with professors, as well as an internship at a site in your local area.
To learn more, contact the School of Management.