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Mini-Camp
The basics topics to get students started with key life skills and job skills for independence
15 hours
- 15 pamphlets with assessments from Boot Camp and Job Camp
- Key topics for doing a job search and essential life skills for independence
- Instructor’s Manual with detailed teaching tips, slides, additional content
A bundle of 25 with Instructor’s Manuals
$1625
Base Camp
Build a solid foundation for launching students into college and the job market as young professionals
30+ hours
- 15 Boot Camp lessons
- 15 Job Camp lessons
- Instructor’s Manual with detailed teaching tips, slides, additional content
A bundle of 25 with Instructor’s Manuals
$5,775
We understand the pressure you feel to help your students succeed.
As educators we know the work it takes to make it real, get your students engaged, and meet the program requirements. Learnovation is one of the most trusted names in career management education. Founded by collegiate best-selling author Dr. Anna Graf Williams, Learnovation has helped hundreds of instructors guide students to gain the job and life skills needed to make the most of their education and build successful careers.
Learnovation, LLC takes all the guess work out of closing employee skill gaps and how to manage & leverage employee development.
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MINI CAMP Sessions
Mini College Boot Camp
When you’re short on time, Mini Camp gives you the top skills from the College Boot Camp Sessions
- Includes 9 sessions with pamphlets and assessment documents:
- Are You Ready for College?
- Identifying Your Target Job
- Being a Professional
- The Career Portfolio Starter
- Paying My Bills
- Managing Stress
- Basic Study Skills
- Staying Healthy
- Setting Up Your Household
Mini Job Camp
Get the essential skills from the Job Camp Sessions
- Includes 6 sessions with pamphlets and assessment documents:
- Taking Control of Your Skills
- Gainful Employment- Value vs. Cost
- Finding a Job
- Social Media and Your Career
- Filling out a Job Application
- Job Interviews
BASE CAMP- College Boot Camp Sessions
#1 - Are You Ready for College?
- Risk factors for college dropout
- How college works, laundry, health, money, building support systems.
- Overview of the College Boot Camp
- Are you ready to be on your own?
#2 – What is it You Want?
- Visualizing life during and after college
- Identifying target jobs and defining career paths
- Setting goals
- Introduce a Visioning Board project
- Career To-Do list
#3 – Being A Professional
- Knowing Your Skills
- What does it mean to be a professional?
- Professionalism survey
- The basics of knowledge, skills & abilities (KSAs)
- How classes transfer knowledge to skills
- Reading a syllabus to identify skills
#4 – Personal and Professional
- Well-Being
- How well-being impacts your personal life and
- professional career
- Purpose, Social, Financial, Community and Physical Well-Being
#5– The Career Portfolio Starter
- Overview of career portfolios
- How career portfolios are used to organize skills
- Building your skill lists
- Collecting work samples during college
#6– Getting What You Want, Not What You Get
- Choosing a major
- Skills needed for a target job
- Gap analysis – skills I have vs. skills I need.
#7– Managing Money
- Managing money in college
- Identify your spending habits
- Creating a college budget
#8– Learning the School Systems
- Student services
- Health services
- Academic counseling
- Financial aid
- Registrar’s office
- Housing & Recreation
#9– Risk or Reward… Activities, Friends, Parties, & Getting Involved
- Choosing clubs and activities
- Making friends
- Finding mentors
- Staying safe
- Balancing social and academic life
- Transferable skills
#10– Community Service & Connections
- Getting involved in the community
- In class volunteer experience
- Gaining skills from community service
- Networking
- Getting around in the community
#11– Handling Stress
- Stresses to expect
- Ways to relieve stress
- When to call home
- Building support systems
#12– Basic Study Skills
- Time management
- Basic study skills
- Balancing social and academic life
- Course load and homework realities
- Creating schedules
#13– Staying Healthy
- Basic wellness – sleep, nutrition, exercise
- Review current patterns of sleep, study, exercise
- Basic first aid
- Being sick – what to do
- When to push through, and when to get help
- Where to go for medical aid
#14– Setting Up Your First Room or Apartment
- What to expect
- Bringing the basics
- Getting along with roommates
- Managing laundry
- Basics of food safety
- Basic dorm cooking
#15– Getting A Part-Time Job
- Using a career portfolio to get a job
- When to focus on school and when to add in work
- Making summer jobs pay in skills that help your career
- Review college readiness
BASE CAMP- Job Camp Sessions
#1 - Welcome to the Workplace!
- Overview of Job Camp
- What’s in it for me
- What you’ll create
- Intro to the materials
- Introduction to Career Portfolios
- Interest Inventories
#2 – What Work Style Suits Me?
- Interest inventory – what did you learn?
- Types of jobs
- Types of work environments
- Intro to skills
- Top jobs – do you agree with your assessment?
- Researching the Job – Exploring O*NET
#3 – What Employers Expect
- The employer’s view
- What does it mean to be a professional?
- Workplace skills
- Technical skills
- Soft Skills
- Transferable skills
- Gaining skills on the job
- Job shadowing
- A Players
- Skills from jobs
#4 – Job Applications
- What to expect on an application
- Tips for filling out a job application online and in person.
- Information on the application
- Collecting your information for a job application
- Assessment tests
#5– What Do You Have to Offer?
- What to expect on an application
- Tips for filling out a job application online and in person.
- Information on the application
- Collecting your information for a job application
- Assessment tests
#6– Financial Independence
- The basics of budgeting
- Getting paid in skills
- Costs of a job- transportation, uniforms
- Creating a basic budget
- Calculating Return on Investment (ROI) on your career
- SWOT analysis
#7- Job Latticing into Your Career
- Target jobs
- Making your job count towards your career
- Skills needed in your career
- The many paths to a job
- Job matching and my career
#8– Documenting your Skills with Work Samples
- Where to find work samples
- Types of work samples
- What work samples show an employer
- Confidentiality on the job
- What is a good work sample?
- Evaluating work samples
- Creating work samples
#9– Starting a Job Search
- The job search process
- Where to look for jobs
- When to apply
- Online job sites
- What can I learn from this process?
- My Career Plan
#10– The Résumé
- The résumé as a skill overview
- Types of résumés
- Online résumés
- Ways to use a résumé
- Collecting information for your résumé
- Cover letters
- References
- Creating a résumé
#11– Social Media and Networking
- Professional vs. personal online
- Using social media for networking
- Using social media to find jobs
- Joining professional groups online
- Overviewing LinkedIn™
- Planning a LinkedIn™ profile
#12– Assembling a Career Portfolio
- Keys for assembling a hard copy career portfolio
- Assembling ePortfolios
- Customizing your career portfolio for different uses
- Identifying keywords
- Creating elements of a career portfolio
- Assembling Your Career Portfolio
#13– Generations in the Workforce
- Understanding people in the workplace
- Getting along with people
- What motivates us?
- How are we different/ similar?
- What can I learn from others?
- Creating a generations cheat sheet
- Attitudes of the Generations game
#14– Using Your Career Portfolio
- Career Portfolio complete
- LinkedIn™ profile complete
- Interviewing basics
- Interviewing with career portfolios
- Previewing skills
- For internships
- For job evaluations
- Questions to expect
- Career Portfolio review
- Mock interviews
#15– Ways to Learn the Job
- Opportunities for learning
- Workshops, courses, certifications, apprenticeships
- Researching new job shadowing and internship opportunities in your area
- Methods of learning
- Platforms for learning- online, classroom, on-the-job
- Learning styles
- Personal learning styles
- Review career plans
- Research options for reaching your target job