2020 MCDA Award Recipients
Sunny Hansen Graduate Student Award This award honors outstanding graduate students for excellence in projects, service, teaching, and/or research that shows a demonstration to career development as a current or …
MCDA Mentor Program Seeking New Leaders
MCDA is seeking two new co-chair program coordinators for the 2019-2020 MCDA mentoring program.
Participants Share Experiences with MCDA Mentor Program
MCDA mentors and mentees share their accolades for the program.
Career Change and the Chronologically Gifted
by Nancy R. Burke Career Coach, FuturePerfect and Burke&Penn Five years ago, we started our business, Burke&Penn to work with people age 50+ on their careers and second acts. …
Emotional Intelligence Explored in Multiple RoundTable Events
Emotional Intelligence, or EQ, is considered the best predictor of success, even more so than intelligence (IQ). In today’s competitive and uncertain world, EQ competencies are more important than ever …
Skill Identification: How to Do a Thorough Skills Inventory
by Paul Sears, WorkForce Center Staff “There is a rich reward awaiting the job seeker who will spend the time to figure out his or her skills.” ~ Richard …
Musings on Skills and Careers, Part 2: Skills Checklist
By Paul Sears, WorkForce Center Staff Many systems have been designed to guide career choices. A skill identification tool in the Minnesota WorkForce Centers Employment Ready U program has a …
Musings on Skills and Careers, Part 1: Find The Good Place
By Paul Sears, WorkForce Center Staff Once I worked for a manager who had what I thought an extremely enlightened approach to assigning tasks. My boss