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Category: Professional Development

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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 …

News / Professional Development

MCDA Mentor Program Seeking New Leaders

MCDA is seeking two new co-chair program coordinators for the 2019-2020 MCDA mentoring program.

News / Professional Development

Participants Share Experiences with MCDA Mentor Program

MCDA mentors and mentees share their accolades for the program.

News / Professional Development

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. …

News / Professional Development / RoundTable

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 …

Blog / News / Professional Development

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 …

Blog / Professional Development

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 …

Blog / Newsletter / Professional Development

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

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