Denia Meza

Excellence in Career Services
CHEP Status: Active
CHEP Awarded: 08/22/2025

Badge Evidence | Completed Courses (4 Hours Each)

This course offers strategies to provide employment and job search skills training that enables students to seek jobs in the field for which they are trained. You'll learn how to offer comprehensive career services regardless of whether your career services department is staffed full- or part-time. The course provides strategies for an institution to set up a Career Services Department, enhance and run it, and measure results. It describes how a successful career services department can ensure that your students have the skills and self-confidence to succeed in the workplace. You'll learn techniques to increase placement rates and reach out to the community to meet and maintain relationships with hiring decision-makers.
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.
Educational institutions have opportunities to create unique alumni associations which will look and feel more like alumni communities. This course will show you how you can create active alumni communities to increase enrollment, retention and placement for your entire institution. You will learn how to provide your alumni with valuable services and how to seek their help to enhance your educational programs and career services, as well as marketing and admissions. From getting started to setting up an alumni data base management system and determining the institution's return on investment, this course provides you with operational strategies for establishing an effective alumni association.
Although job developing requires a mix of critical skills, many career advisors are forced to learn them through the "sink or swim" method. They're often asked to immediately make a specific number of cold-calls daily. They learn that "job developing" is synonymous with cold-calling. It isn't. This course covers how to properly prepare for job developing, how to prospect, prioritize employer contact, and communicate with employers to address objections, get job orders, manage them to completion, and continuously engage employers and candidates to develop long-term partnerships. Job developing should be more comprehensive than a simple list of employers to cold-call.
In today's world where jobs are posted online, matching algorithms screen digital résumés, and recruiters source candidates online, students must market themselves online. Writing a résumé and cover letter alone is no longer an adequate skill set for career seekers to successfully find and secure employment as well as manage, advance, and transition their career throughout life. Students must know how to digitally market themselves, and 21st century career advisors must know how to advise them. This course will help you advise students on developing digital career-marketing strategies for career success.
Working with justice-involved learners can feel like navigating a maze of legal constraints, stigma, and high-stakes hiring processes. This course equips you with innovative, real-world strategies to unlock fresh employment opportunities for these individuals, while elevating your own professional impact. Discover powerful tactics for instilling confidence, guiding disclosure conversations, and crafting “turnaround talks” that reframe negative narratives. You’ll gain an insider’s view into how employers assess risk, why fair chance hiring matters, and how to overcome common obstacles to employment. By the end, you’ll be fully prepared to coach learners to confidently navigate the employment landscape. Strengthen your toolkit and become a catalyst for meaningful opportunities – enroll today!
Students with disabilities represent a unique minority group within higher education. Despite being the largest minority group in the world, all too often their access to and inclusion in programs and services comes as an afterthought. Career services practitioners pride themselves in their ability to serve diverse populations, yet many remain untrained in working with disabled students. This course helps career services practitioners understand federal legislation basics as they relate to disabled students, the unique challenges they face, and characteristics of the population as well as practical resources and career services strategies to help overcome their unique barriers to employment.
**While the course addresses interaction considerations for those with deafness, blindness, learning disabilities, acquired brain disabilities, and physical disabilities, it shouldn't be expected that the course will cover all possible disabilities you may want to specifically learn about. It provides a broad overview.
There are millions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) job seekers struggling to find careers and even hold down a job, due in part to their sexual orientation and gender identity. What amplifies this issue is the fact that many college career advisors who are supposed to help struggling jobseekers are not trained to address the unique struggles their LGBTQ students face in their career development. This course equips career advisors with the perspective, knowledge, and practical skills necessary to provide quality career services for their LGBTQ students, who greatly need their assistance.
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.
In this course, you will learn how to manage your career - including how to identify your business interests, professional values, and skills in order to target your most exciting career possibilities.