02/24/2012
2012 Conference Virtual Exhibit Hall
Tech lab sponsor:
Job-Hunt.org
Contact: Susan P. Joyce
PO Box 507
Marlborough, MA 01752-0507
508.624.6261
sjoyce@job-hunt.org
www.job-hunt.org
Job-Hunt.org is a free award-winning employment portal (Forbes and PC Magazine "Best") helping job seekers conduct safe and effective online job searches. Job-Hunt provides over 1,500 pages of information, increasing every week. Edited by Susan P. Joyce since 1998, Job-Hunt features over 20,000 vetted resources for job seekers - directories of professional associations, employer recruiting pages by state, networking and job search support groups, job boards, green industry guide, and resources for veterans. Job-Hunt provides free ebooks about job search tasks (e.g., Building an Effective Resume with USAJOBS, Choosing Safe Job Boards), plus Online Job Search Guides, hundreds of articles from job search and careers experts, and more.
Bronze SPONSORs:
Career Development Network
Contact: Dick Knowdell
PO Box 611930
San Jose, CA 95161-1930
408.272.3085
The Career Development Network was established in 1979 to meet the professional development needs of the wide range of career practitioners who work with adults in job and career transition. We conduct career development training and certification programs is North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Since 1994, over 6,000 career practitioners have completed the Job & Career Transition Coach Certification workshop. Since 2006 the Network has been training Career Development Facilitators (CDF) and Instructors (CDFI). The Network publishes a bimonthly newsletter that features professional development opportunities for career practitioners. We also publish a quarterly journal. Each journal issue is edited by a subject matter expert with chapters from invited authors.
CPP, Inc.
Contact: Christine Nieto
1055 Joaquin Road, Suite 200
Mountain View, CA 94043
800.624.1765
cnieto@cpp.com
www.cpp.com
Effective career counseling begins with assessing your students’ interests and personality which may be why 100% of the top 100 colleges, according to US News & World Report in 2011, have used CPP products. CPP’s world-renowned assessments – including the Myers-Briggs® (MBTI®) and the Strong Interest Inventory® - provide time-tested and research-validated insights to help your students in their search for rich, fulfilling careers. Guide decisions, inspire trust, uncover passions, and be better.
Exhibitors:
BOOTH LISTINGS: in Alpha Order
#11 American Counseling Association
Contact: Carolyn Baker
5999 Stevenson Avenue
Alexandria, VA 22304
800.347.6647
Visit ACA for information on membership and our benefits and services, as well as to purchase our latest books including The Counselor and the Law, Casebook for Counseling LGBT Persons and Their Families, Counseling and Psychotherapy, Career Counseling, Experiential Activities for Teaching Multicultural Competence in Counseling, and Statistical Methods for Validation of Assessment Scale Data in Counseling.
#9 Automation Federation
Contact: Michael Marlowe
67 Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
919.314.3937
mmarlowe@automationfederation.org
The Automation Federation is a nonprofit, umbrella association of 12 member organizations representing individuals engaged in manufacturing and process automation activities. These membership organizations work together to advance the science and engineering of automation technologies and applications and develop the workforce needed to capitalize on the benefits of automation.
#10 Bureau of Labor Statistics
Contact: Bill Lawhorn
2 Massachusetts Avenue, Suite 2135
Washington, DC 20212-0001
202.691.5093
The Employment Projections booth will have career resources from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, including information on Green Jobs, the Occupational Outlook Handbook and the Occupational Outlook Quarterly. BLS representatives will be available to discuss the newly released 2010-20 occupational employment projections and education and training information.
#18 CandidCareer.com
Contact: Neilye Garrity
Annapolis, MD
814.574.2882
CandidCareer.com facilitates career and college major exploration for students. We are the premier provider of informational VIDEO interviews featuring industry professionals sharing their career experiences and advice. Our School Branded Version features your school alumni and includes networking capabilities. Our video Company Profile Pages educate students on companies.
#23 CareerCycles
Contact: Mark Franklin
201-873 Broadview Avenue
Toronto, ON M4K 2P9
Canada
416.465.9222
CareerCycles empowers helping professionals through our proven and published narrative method of practice-training offered open-enrollment and on-site. We’ve helped 3500+ individuals develop careers for the future, and organizations engage in career conversations. Spark group conversations with our Who You Are MATTERS! career and life clarification game.
#45 Career Cruising
Contact: Kyle Phillips
1867 Yonge Street, Suite 1002
Toronto, ON M4S 1Y5
800.965.8541
kylep@careercruising.com
Career Cruising engages and inspires people of all ages to achieve their full potential in school, career and life. We do this with age-appropriate career development, assessments, planners and other resources that are based on the real world. In partnership with schools, community organizations and employers, we enable a ‘whole community’ approach to career and workforce development.
#12 Career Liftoff
Contact: Jim Lewis
PO Box 21772
Eagan, MN 55121
651.276.9502
The Career Liftoff Interest Inventory (CLII) is an on line tool that assesses the interest of individuals and compares them to the interest profiles of various career fields. The award-winning CLII has been well received by schools throughout the country. For free trials see www.clii-video.com
#21 CareerSafe
Contact: Bob Tyra
3129 S Hacienda Blvd.
Hacienda Heights, CA 91745
562.774.5890
Approximately every five days, a young worker is killed on the job and more than 200,000 are injured with 70,000 requiring hospital treatment. Are your clients or students ready to "Start Safe, Stay Safe" at their work sites? CareerSafe provides a low-cost, 10 hour online OSHA-approved certification training.
# 4 Career Development Network
Contact: Dick Knowdell
PO Box 611930
San Jose, CA 95161-1930
408.272.3085
The Career Development Network was established in 1979 to meet the professional development needs of a wide range of career practitioners who work with adults in job and career transition. We conduct career development training and certification programs is North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Since 1994, over 6,000 career practitioners have completed the Job & Career Transition Coach Certification workshop. Since 2006 the Network has been training Career Development Facilitators (CDF) and Instructors (CDFI). The Network publishes a bimonthly newsletter that features professional development opportunities for career practitioners. We also publish a quarterly journal. Each journal issue is edited by a subject matter expert with chapters from invited authors.
#2 Center for Credentialing & Education
Contact: Modestine Montgomery
3 Terrace Way
Greensboro, NC 27403
336.482.2856
The Center for Credentialing & Education, Inc. (CCE), an NBCC affiliate and leader in professional credentialing, offers certifications for clinical supervisors, distance counselors, career development facilitators, human services professionals, correctional staff, and coaches. Visit us to learn how our credentials can benefit you in your professional practice.
#25 The Center for Work Ethic Development
Contact: Joshua Casto
2525 16th Street, Suite 214
Denver, CO 80211
303.433.3243
Work ethic is a trainable set of values and behaviors that, when properly aligned, drive sustained performance. The Center for Work Ethic Development is the nation’s only institution focusing on work ethic to drive organizational profit and individual success. It’s not only working harder, it’s working with purpose.
#22 Center on Education & Work
Contact: Jane Kwiecinski
1078 Educational Sciences Bldg.
1025 West Johnson Street
Madison, WI 53706
800.862.1071
The Center of Education and Work (CEW) is a research, technical assistance and resource provider within the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Established in 1964, the Center has a rich tradition of assisting educators and career development practitioners. Come check our CareerLocker, our world class web-based career information system.
#16 CPP, Inc.
Contact: Christine Nieto
1055 Joaquin Road, Suite 200
Mountain View, CA 94043
800.624.1765
Effective career counseling begins with assessing your students’ interests & personality. CPP’s world-renowned assessments - including the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) and the Strong Interest Inventory® assessments - provide time-tested & research-validated insights to help your students in their search for rich, fulfilling careers.
# 7 Dewey Color System
Contact: Chase Wall
1120 Mt. Paran Road, NW
Atlanta, GA 30327
770.885.8763
chase.wall@deweycolorsystem.com
The Color Career Indicator 4.0 (CCI 4.0) is today’s most accurate occupational assessment. With a 750,000-sample base and accuracy of 82%, it connects over 1,000 occupations. Unlike traditional tests, there’s no market knowledge required. Even clueless students, receive a list of their “Top 50 Most Enjoyable Occupations.” Our updated by-occupation facts and career program offers dream career opportunities.
#17 EdITS
Contact: Kimberly Frichtel
PO Box 7234
San Diego, CA 92167
619.222.1666
EdITS has been the leader in career guidance and instructional material for over 40 years. EdITS features both the COPSystem career assessments, which relate interests, abilities and values to occupations and CERES, which integrates career education throughout the curriculum. We currently are in the process of beta testing our online version of the COPS Interest Inventory, the CAPS ability battery, and the COPES values survey. In addition to our career guidance material we have various measures of personality, self-concept and study attitudes.
#40 Elevations For Students
Contact: Helen Horyza
540 Plaza Drive, Suite 110
Folsom, CA 95630
916.608.8854
helen@scullycareerassociates.com
Elevations integrates career decision making into one online platform. It includes values, skills, career interests and personality. Easy to use, up-to-date and accurate, it also guides students through research, informational interviewing, obstacles analysis, decision making and action planning. Elevations saves money (one assessment, not four), time and gets great results.
# 33 Federal Bonding Program
Contact: Ron Rubbin
413 King Farm Blvd., Suite 203
Rockville, MD 20850
301.527.9144
ron4bonds@aol.com
www.bonds4jobs.com
Learn detailed information about US DOL’s Federal Bonding Program which promotes fidelity bonding as a vital tool in assisting at-risk job seekers obtain employment. Bonds are cost free to employers and job seekers. Written materials and videos including guidelines on how agencies/organizations can obtain bonds to use in their placement efforts are available. More details at www.Bonds4jobs.com .
#37 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Contact: Joyce Thomas
3501 Fairfax Drive, Room 11087B
Arlington, VA 22226
703.254.2242
joythomas@fdic.gov
www.fdic.gov/moneysmart
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is an independent agency created by Congress in 1933. The FDIC supervises banks, insures bank deposits and helps maintain a stable and sound banking system.
#39 FOCUS 2 Online Career Assessment & Major Exploration System
Contact: Janis Stokes
PO Box 998
Center Harbor, NH 03226
603.526.8989
janis@focuscareer.com
FOCUS 2 combines self-assessment, career/major exploration, action planning and decision making in one comprehensive online product. Customized with your college's majors, students' assessment results matched to career options and majors/programs offered at your college. Tools for FYE, robust administrative reports and customization. Contact www.careerdimensions.com: free trial accounts and introductory webinars.
#44 Grand Canyon University
Contact: Qunicy Jenkins
3300 W Camelback Road
Phoenix, AZ 85017
877.599.0655
quincy.jenkins@gcu.edu
Since 1949, Grand Canyon University has been helping students find their purpose and achieve their potential by preparing them to pursue their chosen career, advance in their current career, or re-career into a different field. GCU offers online and campus-based degree programs. For more information, visit www.gcu.edu.
#3 High Frequency Living
Contact: Mark Matika
1136 Belfield Avenue
Drexel Hill, PA 19026
610.853.9853
High Frequency Living offers interactive workshops that empower college students to discover their true purpose in life. The exercises illuminate what’s between them and living a life that they love. Facing current economic challenges, it’s critical that graduates have powerful new tools with which to design their future.
#35 Hobnob
Contact: Ben Harris
1650 North Columbia Place
Decatur, GA 30032
404.387.3323
benharris@hobnobjobs.com
www.hobnobjobs.com/careergroups
Hobnob Career Groups provide the first structured curriculum for collaborative career exploration. Our proven training prepares your staff to successfully advise up to 12 students at a time through a peer group format, while retaining personalized recommendations for each student based on their unique combination of passions, talents, and values.
#20 JIST Publishing
875 Montreal Way
St. Paul, MN 55102
800.328.1452
JIST Publishing is an authority on the topics of career, job search, business, and families in crisis. JIST materials help people help themselves in career and life by offering practical, self-directed products and training tools that are used in employment and training, corrections, education, business, counseling, therapy, and school settings.
#5 Job-Hunt.org
Contact: Susan P. Joyce
PO Box 507
Marlborough, MA 07152-0507
508.624.6261
Job-Hunt.org is a free award-winning employment portal (Forbes and PC Magazine "Best") helping job seekers conduct safe and effective online job searches. Job-Hunt provides over 1,500 pages of information, increasing every week. Edited by Susan P. Joyce since 1998, Job-Hunt features over 20,000 vetted resources for job seekers - directories of professional associations, employer recruiting pages by state, networking and job search support groups, job boards, green industry guide, and resources for veterans. Job-Hunt provides free ebooks about job search tasks (e.g., Building an Effective Resume with USAJOBS, Choosing Safe Job Boards), plus Online Job Search Guides, hundreds of articles from job search and careers experts, and more.
# 24 Jobshop, Inc.
Contact: Sherry Pearson
PO Box 654
Shacklefords, VA 23156
888.562.5480
Our Guides were written by professionals to provide information to job seekers of all ages and backgrounds. The 77 Adult Guide topics and 44 Youth Guide topics will meet the needs of your customers. Updated annually they are a great resource for all individuals that are seeking employment.
# 31 Kuder, Inc.
Contact: Scott Vandever
302 Visions Parkway
Adel, IA 50003
800.314.8972
Kuder, Inc. provides proven solutions to navigate life’s career journey. The Internet-based Kuder® Career Planning System includes Kuder® Galaxy for elementary schools; Kuder® Navigator for middle schools and high schools; and Kuder® Journey for postsecondary students and adults. Each solution is backed by a powerful Administrative Database Management System.
# 30 LearningExpress, LLC
Contact: Tom Burnosky
2 Rector Street, 26th Floor
New York, NY 10006
212.995.2566
tburnosky@learningexpressllc.com
LEARNINGEXPRESS, LLC is a leading e-learning technology company that provides career advancement and education solutions to thousands of colleges and libraries, currently helping more than one million students and adult learners annually to meet their professional and academic goals.
# 38 Life After Graduation, LLC
Contact: Terry Arndt
PO Box 11205
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
877.569.9816
terry@lifeaftergraduation.com
Life After Graduation, LLC specializes in customized college transition guides that assist students achieve career success. Our publications are best used as part of a Senior Year Transition Course, graduation gift, internship support guide, and a variety of other college transition programs. We also offer a free newsletter, College Transition Times, which provides recipients free college transition articles for use on their web site, own newsletter/magazine, class or event.
#43 MEDITEC
Contact: Sylvia Cavazos-Malamon
13801 Burnet Road, Suite 100
Austin, TX 78730
512.861.0422
sylvia.malamon@360training.com
Meditec’s e-Learning computer-based courses incorporate proven training methods to ensure the highest rate of information retention. Online mentoring, comprehensive text and practice exams provide the basic theories needed for training and certification. In addition, our self-study courses include hands-on simulations to provide valuable working experience and ensure the highest skill retention possible.
#34 The National Resume Writers’ Association
Contact: Ruth Pankratz
333 West Drake, Suite 11
Fort Collins, CO 80526
877.843.6792
president@thenrwa.com
Founded in 1997, The National Resume Writers’ Association (The NRWA) is a nonprofit, member-driven organization dedicated to promoting the highest standards of excellence in resume writing through certification and education. The NRWA’s diverse membership includes resume writers, career coaches, military career transition specialists, college/university career development professionals, and outplacement consultants
#32 The National Society of Leadership and Success
Contact: Marissa Curry
50 Harrison Street, Suite 308
Hoboken, NJ 07030
201.204.4075
mcurry@societyleadership.org
The Society achieves profound results in helping students discover and attain their goals, offering life changing lectures from the nation's leading presenters and a community where students help one another succeed.
#1 PAR, Inc.
Contact: Cynthia Lumpee
16204 N. Florida Avenue
Lutz, FL 33549
813.449.4076
PAR, Inc. is a leading publisher of psychological assessment instruments, software, apps, and other related testing materials. Over the past three decades, PAR has earned a reputation for providing customers with innovative assessment solutions and unparalleled customer service. To learn more about PAR, please visit us at booth #1.
#41 PassportCareer.com
Contact: Susan Musich
2020 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, #410
Washington, DC 20006
703.608.4433
smusich@passportcareer.com
PassportCareer.com is an effective and unique low-cost international career/job/internship tool available to institutions to support students/alumni with their home country and global career interests. Includes: 75+ countries (plus 54 USA cities), and 12,000+ pages of expert strategies and resources. Country/city-specific/local content includes: jobs/internships, local resume/CV, business culture/etiquette, key networking contacts, local interview styles, salary samples, best local employers, and much more.
#26 Pearson
Contact: Diane Armstrong
1 Lake Street
Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458
201.236.5894
Pearson is a leading publisher of career development and professionalism resources. We offer market leading books Sukiennik and Raufman’s The Career Fitness Program, Anderson and Bolt’s Professionalism, and Sherfield and Moody’s Cornerstones for Professionalism, as well as exciting new MyStudentSuccessLab technology which reinforces ongoing personal and professional development, not to mention appropriate supplemental materials like our Success Tips and IDentity Series. We look forward to learning about current needs and making recommendations.
#6 Pearson Assessments
Contact: Lisa Collins
5601 Green Valley Drive
Bloomington, MN 55437
952.681.3514
Pearson provides assessments to help you transition students into post-secondary coursework and/or the workforce. These assessments provide insights into students’ career interests, motivation, abilities, and values leading to better decisions to help guide their future. Our well-respected and widely used products include IDEAS™, CDM®-R, CDM® Internet, and CISS®.
#14 Resume Place
Contact: Diane Hudson Burns
3079 N. Columbine Avenue
Boise, ID 83713
208.323.9636
The Resume Place, Inc. was the first Federal Resume Writing firm in the country. We wrote the first book on federal resume writing and we are still the leading experts for the federal job search, federal resumes and federal application procedures, www.resume-place.com .
#15 Resume Writing Academy/ Career Thought Leaders
Contact: Wendy Enelow
2265 Walker Road
Coleman Falls, VA 24536
434.299.5600
wendy@resumewritingacademy.com
www.resumewritingacademy.com or www.careerthoughtleaders.com
Stop by Booth #15 to meet Wendy Enelow and Louise Kursmark, founders and directors of the Resume Writing Academy (RWA), the nation's premier resume training and certification organization. Earn your ACRW credential and become one of the nation's leading resume writers.
#8 The Highlands Company
Contact: Natalie Pepper
2001 Palmer Avenue, Suite 103
Larchmont, NY 10538
800.373.0083
The Highlands Ability Battery® is the true test of Natural Abilities through Performance based task-oriented virtual work samples all ONLINE. Abilities testing helps your clients pinpoint careers that use their strengths while minimizing their weaknesses. Administered by certified career professionals, Highlands is a tool for career selection, training and goal setting.
#19 TypeFocus Internet Inc
Contact: Dave Wood
#205-3994 Shelbourne Street
Victoria, BC V8N 3E2
Canada
877.477.8973
TypeFocus provides online career development programs using personality type, interests (Holland) and values for: university students seeking career direction, high school students seeking career direction, employment centers for adults seeking work, adults in corporate settings seeking career management
www.TypeFocus.com: can turn a career into a calling.
#13 Vocational Research Institute
Contact: Cal Schaerer
1845 Walnut Street, Suite 660
Philadelphia, PA 19103
800.874.5387
CareerScope® is a valid, reliable, and objective interest and aptitude assessment available on CD or Online. CareerScope recommendations are based on Department of Labor and Department of Education standards and provide the basis for selecting the most appropriate education/training program and developing transition, training, and employment retention plans. Ask about a free trial!
#42 Walden University
Contact: Charity Adams
4732 Redbranch Drive
Decatur, GA 30035
678.575.8872
charity.adams@waldenu.edu
Walden University- An online University for Working Professionals. For more than 40 years, Walden University has supported working professionals like you in achieving their academic goals and making a greater impact in their professions and their communities. Today, more than 46,500 students from all 50 states and more than 120 countries pursue online bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degrees at Walden.
# 36 Workplace Coach Institute, Inc.
Contact: Nancy Branton
4388 Dorchester Drive
Woodbury, MN 55129
651.459.0528 or 800.691.2553
nancy@workplacecoachinstitute.com
www.workplacecoachinstitute.com
Workplace Coach Institute, Inc. is a leadership, career and assessment coach training certification firm dedicated to principled leadership, meaningful careers and thriving workplaces globally. We offer CEUs approved by National Board of Certified Coaches, International Coach Federation, Human Resources Certification Institute or Center for Credentialing and Education.