Country: Canada
Duration: 1 Year or Less
Program Level: College Certificate
Country: Canada
Duration: 1 Year or Less
Program Level: College Certificate
Do you want to help others with professional and life decisions? The one-year Career Development Practitioner (Postgraduate) program will prepare you to provide guidance related to career exploration, skill acquisition, and job search and maintenance to a variety of clients.
The one-year Career Development Practitioner (C406) graduate certificate program prepares you to work in the career development sector, which includes nonprofit/community-based, government, post-secondary and private/corporate organizations. This program may also appeal to you if you are a practitioner already working in the field who wants to gain additional formal training and job-coaching experience. This profession’s key objective is to assist clients to be self-sufficient in career exploration, skill acquisition, and job search and maintenance. Career development practitioners coach and counsel others on the following:
Career development practitioners may work with specialized and diverse groups, including youth, women, people with disabilities, immigrants and refugees.
This program has been designed to meet the changing needs of the sector and will help meet the demand for trained career development practitioners in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) and beyond.
What can you expect from the Career Development Practitioner program?
This program combines in-class experiential training in counselling and coaching, theory and practice. Courses may also be conducted online or in a blended format.
The use of technology will enable you to participate in exciting ways that will build on previous knowledge and skills.
The final semester is dedicated to a supervised field education opportunity to ensure that upon graduation, you will have practical experience recognized by employers.
To provide you with a rich learning experience, we offer a variety of teaching methods, such as seminars, lectures, online learning, small group work, guest speakers, and field visits.
What Career Development Practitioner key skills and knowledge will you gain?
Who are our Career Development Practitioner students?
Our students have completed a college diploma or a university degree.
Due to the varied nature of the work and workplaces of career development practitioners, it is expected that graduates may come from a wide variety of programs of study, including:
We recommend this field of study if you are interested in people and their development, are excited about the opportunity to assist others in professional and life decisions, and want to help them be self-sufficient in job search and retention.
Career development practitioners play an important role in the lives of others as they contribute to the emotional and financial well-being of their clients and their families, their communities, and the economy.
Students will complete almost 300 hours of field education in semester 3 and will be supported in developing relationships with our community partners to obtain a placement opportunity in settings in the GTA.
Placements will be chosen by students based on their learning goals, environments sought, clientele, location, and other factors and will be approved by the program co-ordinator.
George Brown College has extensive connections with employers in all parts of the sector including community-based organizations, college and university career centres, internal corporate career services, and career-management firms.
Applicants with international transcripts must provide English language proficiency test results or complete the George Brown College English assessment to provide evidence of their English language proficiency
| language proficiency Testing Program | Diploma/Certificate Programs |
Postgraduate Programs and Fast-track/ Bridges** | GBC Degree Programs* |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Brown English for Academic (EAP) Program | Level 8 | Level 9 | Level 9 |
| IELTS (Academic) | 6.0, minimum 5.5 in each skill band | 6.5, minimum 6.0 in each skill band | 6.5, minimum 6.0 in each skill band |
| TOEFL | 80 (online) minimum 20 in each skill band | 88 (online) minimum 22 in each skill band | 84 (online) minimum 21 in each skill band |
| MELAB | 80 | 85 | 85 |
| PTE (Academic) | 54, overall minimum 50 in each skill band |
60, overall minimum 55 in each skill band |
60, overall minimum 55 in each skill band |
| CAEL | 60 (overall) | 70 overall (writing 60) | 70 overall (writing 60) |
| Cambridge English Exams (B2 First, C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency) | 169 or more (with no individual skill below 162) | 176 or more (with no individual skill below 169) | 176 or more (with no individual skill below 169) |
| George Brown Admissions Test (Mature applicants only) | Available | Available | Not Available |
CAD26,953.00 Approx.
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| Living Costs | $11,800 - $15,750/Year |
| Application Fee | $100 - $200 |
| IELTS Requirement | 6.0 - 7.0 |
| Work Opportunities | Yes; Post-Graduation Work Permit Program (up to 3 years) |
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