Career Counseling Services Menu:

  • Vocational assessment (Career Interests, Personality Assessment, Intelligence/Learning Ability, Academic Achievement, Vocational Aptitudes, Values Clarification, Dexterity, Functioning, etc.)
  • Career tests (Job Satisfaction, Stress at Work, Creativity, Cognitive Ability, Extroversion, etc.)
  • Skills evaluation, transferable skills analysis (computerized or manual)
  • Goal selection (help identify up to 5 viable career options for you to explore)
  • School selection/location
  • Declaring a major in college (making the right choice the FIRST time)
  • Financial aid options
  • Labor market and wage information
  • School or employment performance coaching
  • Career transition/career ladders
  • Supplemental job displacement benefit/voucher counseling (workers' comp)
  • Reasonable accomodation, if disabled, and return to modified/alternate position
  • Job-search skills and interviewing excellence
  • Knock 'em dead resume development
  • Internet resources for education and job placement
  • Unique and unusual careers or "cool careers"
  • Best careers/positioning yourself for the future
  • Self-employment ideas and assessment/feasibility studies
  • Careers in health and medicine
  • High-tech careers
  • Business plans (start-ups)
  • Career growth and tune-up
  • Ideas for special needs populations
  • Avoiding work-related stress and workplace problems including burnout
  • How to be happy at work
  • Quick career training (less than one year) for displaced workers
  • Executive coaching
  • Retirees/life planning for fun work or volunteering
  • Reasonable accommodation (if disabled)
  • Develop a career plan (including annual review)
  • Develop list of references and checking references (we call)
  • Salary negotiation and salary survey
  • Relocation career counseling
  • Current job openings (any location, any career)
  • Information interviewing and scripts (telephone or face-to-face)
  • Job club/support group/career workshop
  • ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) consulting and FEHA consulting
"At first, I was discouraged about going into a film and video production career, but after some career counseling [from Michael L. Stinson & Associates], which helped me gain more information about the training and employment opportunities, I am now going to enter a field I love."
Testimonial from Mark