Alexis Kimotho

Excellence in Career Services
CHEP Status: Active
CHEP Awarded: 10/03/2025

Badge Evidence | Completed Courses (4 Hours Each)

A well-designed career services program does more than help learners land jobs; it drives learner success, builds employer trust, and strengthens your institution’s reputation. In this course, you’ll learn how to create a career services program from inception with approaches that are practical, scalable, and deeply impactful. Whether you’re a team of one or leading a growing department, you’ll discover strategies to deliver personalized support, build strong community connections, and align your work with today’s hiring realities. Discover a clear framework for designing, improving, and leading a career services operation that works, without requiring a big budget or constant reinvention. By the end, you’ll be equipped to help your institution stand out as a trusted source of job-ready talent.
In this course, you will be given tools to help your students find the job that's right for them, present themselves impressively on paper, and interview with ease. This course is designed so you can successfully support your students in four phases of their job search: doing a targeted job search, writing a powerful resume and cover letter, presenting professionally, and developing effective interview skills.
Social media is critical tool for career services professionals to interact with and reach their constituent groups yet many career professionals aren't aware of how to develop a purposeful social media strategy. Without a social media strategy, career services departments risk losing relevance with their audience, and they also lose the opportunity of harnessing social media to achieve department goals. This course describes the phases of planning and implementing a social media strategy for your career services department. Each module is based on the fundamental steps of preparing a comprehensive and measurable plan to achieve the goals of the career services department.
Effectively coaching students to achieve their goals in a way that builds autonomy, confidence, and accountability is fundamental to the role of a career services professional. Despite this fact, many career professionals have never engaged in professional development to build their coaching skills. This course helps career services professionals develop fundamental coaching skills so they can act as a catalyst and facilitator in assisting students to work towards their self-identified goals, with the belief that self-identified goals lead to increased student buy-in and motivation for attainment. Learn to put practical coaching techniques into action to maximize your results with students. *This course is relevant to a variety of career support professionals regardless of titles such as career counselors, advisors, coordinators, or "case managers" serving a variety of populations which may include students, out-of-school youth, or dislocated workers (youth or adults).
Help students ace the interview with successful tactics to showcase their qualities and make them the best fit for the job. A career management specialist will be able to master the appropriate actions for students to take before, during, and after the interview. These tactics can then be implemented in a career management class or during the preparations for prospective job interviews. The goal of this course is to help develop a better understanding of the topic and produce tangible resources to help implement plans, strategies, and ideas at your school. In addition to lecture videos, resource links, and assessments, you will be able to utilize Journal and Learning Activities, which will continue to be useful after successful completion of the course.
Today's job seekers need more than advice to thrive. They must be equipped to leverage their strengths, envision their ideal future, and develop an action plan to achieve it. This solution-oriented approach fosters self-reliance and resilience, propelling them toward lasting career success. In this course, you'll learn how to apply solution-focused coaching to guide learners through their career journeys. From effective goal setting to exception seeking to crafting powerful coaching questions, you'll master techniques to guide learners toward their preferred futures. By the end of the course, you'll be a more resourceful and impactful career support professional, equipped with the skills to facilitate positive change and enhance learner outcomes. Enroll now to elevate your coaching effectiveness and make a lasting impact.
Career support professionals often encounter learners struggling with motivation during their job search and career development. This course teaches you how to apply motivational interviewing (MI) techniques to enhance learners' motivation, helping them overcome ambivalence, clarify goals, and take actionable steps toward their career aspirations. You will learn to partner with learners in ways that foster confidence and minimize resistance. By the course's end, you'll possess a deeper grasp of motivation, see yourself as a powerful change agent, and wield advanced coaching skills to significantly boost your learners' motivation. Enroll now to empower your learners, elevate your coaching effectiveness, and make a lasting impact.
Derived from the feedback of over 100 institutions, empirical research, and case studies, course participants are presented with specific strategies and best practices that promote graduate employment. This course is for all education professionals seeking to understand the institutional practices that maximize graduate employment outcomes. Because employment outcomes are as much a function of institutional behaviors as they are of student behaviors, this course is based in systems thinking, which challenges participants to examine the interdependent relationship among institutional infrastructure, student career-readiness, and graduate employment rates.
Accurate representation of graduate outcomes is critical to upholding institutional integrity. All involved in employment reporting must continuously identify ways to strengthen their system for tracking, collecting, and verifying employment data. When documentation is both a quality and a compliance matter, staff must understand the verification program as a whole, the role they play in continuously improving it, and how to use professional principles and best practices in documentation. This course is designed to encourage participants to critically analyze their own employment reporting practices while sharing ideas and best practices that can help lead to the highest level of data integrity.
This course provides information to help you effectively communicate with students and encourage communication among students in an online environment. You will learn the importance of facilitating instructor-to-student (I2S), student-to-instructor (S2I), and student-to-student (S2S) communication. Digital technology tools play a vital role in the modern communication process, and several are discussed in this course. In addition, discussion is provided to help you further understand how to manage and measure communication in an online course and help students communicate effectively.
This course provides a synopsis of the essential tasks of leadership setting direction, aligning people, and motivating others. You will learn how to recognize the skills and characteristics of effective leaders, create an inspiring vision, and energize people to support and work toward your goals.
Skillful writing helps you accomplish your business objectives and extends your influence as a manager. In this course, you will learn to create clearer, more effective written communications. The course includes specific guidelines for preparing memos, letters, emails, and other common business documents.
This course provides sound advice on preparing and delivering presentations that command attention, persuade, and inspire. It includes rehearsal techniques as well as tips for creating and using more effective visuals. The course also addresses the importance of understanding your objectives and your audience to create a presentation with impact.
This course will show you how to set realistic goals, prioritize tasks, and track milestones to improve performance and morale.