Career & Employer Resource Center at Clackamas Community College: 'We can help jumpstart your new career' - A Worksource Oregon funded project.

Employment Skills Training

CERTIFICATE
The EST certificate provides a quick entry strategy for learning the knowledge and skills necessary to start or change a career path.

Combine college courses with specified hands-on instruction at a local employer to improve a career path. The student’s goals and needs are combined with information from employers, the labor market, and the college to determine the knowledge and skills needed to obtain employment in a specific occupation. The student receives an individualized EST plan.

In addition to preparing a person for employment the individualized EST plan guides the student in gaining more education and training which develops the student’s career path. The program is open entry/open exit, allowing students to begin any term.

PROGRAM OUTCOMES
Program outcomes are specific to the student’s goals and may include:

  • Individualized career plan detailing the college courses to be completed and the knowledge and skills to be learned to support a career path
  • Occupation specific knowledge and skills developed on the job and in the classroom
  • Basic employment skills, job search skills, career management skills, and/or an introductory contact with an employer(s) and/or hiring manager(s)

CAREERS
 Completion of an EST certificate can impact any career.

For more informationplease contact the Career and Employer Resource Center at ext. 2232 or career@clackamas.edu.

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
A Certificate of Completion is earned by completing at least 12 credits of occupationally related college level classes. For every 3 occupationally related credits, one cooperative work experience credit may be included in the plan.

An EST plan must be developed with, and approved by, a department’s faculty advisor prior to pursuing a certificate.

All of the college’s collegiate level credit courses are eligible to be included in the certificate. Developmental courses may be included as prerequisites in a plan but can not be part of the EST certificate.

For information contact the Career & Employer Resource Center, ext. 2232 or career@clackamas.edu