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For Immediate Release

September 10, 2007

New program helps young people focus their career direction

The Centre for Skills Development & Training is offering a new program called Career Focus for people who are unsure of their career direction. The program offers assessment tools and counselling sessions to individuals between the ages of 16 and 35 to help them find out what they are good at, potential careers that suit those abilities, and the best route to get there.

A variety of computerized assessments are conducted including the Abilities and Possibilities Assessment Tool, the Strong Interest Inventory, and the Career Cruising Software Program. One-on-one counselling is provided by professional career specialists to help synthesize the assessment results and provide the best career options for the individual’s interests and aptitudes. Participants leave with a personal action plan to help achieve their goals.

Deborah Dennison, Corporate Services Manager at The Centre, believes that if people took a proactive look at their prospects with programs like Career Focus, they wouldn’t waste time, money and opportunities going through college and university without a goal. "With Career Focus, we’re helping people clarify their knowledge about themselves and their prospects so that they can be successful sooner."

Organized to suit a person’s schedule, assessments and counselling sessions take place in one of The Centre’s four locations in Burlington, Oakville, Milton, and Georgetown.

For more information about the Career Focus program, call 905-333-3499, ext.147 or visit www.thecentre.on.ca.

The Centre for Skills Development & Training is a leading provider of quality career and workforce development programs, products and services specializing in Pre-Apprenticeship Trades and Technology, Career Planning and Development and Language Skills and Academic Upgrading.