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Career Preparation Courses

Welcome to Career Preparation!

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Discover your job-hunting headquarters at Allan Hancock College Community Education, offering tailored classes and programs to propel you toward your career aspirations.

Join our tuition-free Career Preparation program for rapid skill-building, land your first job, switch careers, or earn that promotion. 

Find a Career Preparation Class

  • WKPR 7000 - Planning Your Next Job/Career
    • This course is designed for individuals who wish to explore new approaches to work and career opportunities. Students examine their work histories, identify marketable employment skills, and develop work-related goals.
  • WKPR 7001 - Planning a Job Search
    • In this course, students have an opportunity to plan a job search strategy based on their life and work goals, their strengths, and past experiences.
  • WKPR 7002 - Impression Management
    • In this course, students learn impression management concepts that apply to the workplace and life in general. Emphasis is on managing the interview and the job search process as well as using impression management to accomplish career goals.
  • WKPR 7005 - Professional Workplace Skills
    • Learn the skills that are essential to success in the workplace. Professional skills are the qualities, habits, attitudes that make someone a good employee and compatible to work with. 
  • WKPR 7006 - Practical Workplace Skills
    • Get the tools you need to find a job, apply for it, and successfully ace the interview. Gain skills to help you keep a job once you secure one, by learning to recognize and solve common workplace problems.
  • WKPR 7007 - Technical Workplace Skills
    • Technical skills can dazzle and impress a prospective employer. When crafting a resume, these skills—customer service, planning and organization, experience with tools and technology, attention to detail, operational excellence, and sustainable practices and safety—are valued by all employers.

Click here to view more information about our Career Preparation classes and Certificate of Completion.

  • ECSN 7300 - Family Childcare Business
    • Interested in operating a family childcare business? Learn about California licensing procedures, marketing techniques, contracts and fees and other aspects of operating an independently-owned-business. This course is module 1 of 5 needed to complete a noncredit certificate in operating a childcare business.
  • ECSN 7301 - Child Health and Safety
    • Learn about a child’s health, safety and nutrition regulations, policies and procedures with hands-on practice in this course designed for individuals interested in family childcare. Obtain the beginning knowledge and basic skills that could help in providing a safe and nurturing environment for children. This course is module 2 of 5 needed to complete a noncredit certificate in operating a childcare business.
  • ECSN 7304 - Ethics and Business Contracts
    • Module five - child care business course teaches students how they can best run their home day care using professional ethics as a guide professional relationships, select and maintain staff, interact with parents, maintain contract and other business practices.
  • ECSN 7313 - Observation Made Easy
    • The course applies observation and assessment skills in evaluating all areas of the child’s growth and development. It also includes documentation of child’s skills and behaviors. Knowledge of the child’s development and learning would provide the framework for curriculum and teaching strategies.

Certificate of Completion

This noncredit certificate program provides basic academic skills and workforce readiness skills needed for employment. Students will obtain and maintain competitive integrated employment through development of career planning, interpersonal, and communication skills. Fundamental technology skills for job search will be provided. The noncredit certificate program is intended to align contemporary work readiness skills with opportunities for employment.

Program Requirements:

  • WKPR 7000 - Planning Your Next Job/Career
  • WKPR 7001 - Planning a Job Search
  • WKPR 7002 - Impression Management 

The graduate of the Certificate of Completion in Career Preparation will:

  • identify marketable employment skills
  • develop job -related goals

Certificate of Competency

This noncredit certificate of completion in Family Childcare License Preparation will prepare the student for the in-home family childcare licensing process by providing the required hours of instruction on regulatory aspects, development stages, nutrition, and safety. Upon completion, the student will need to complete the application process through Community Care Licensing with the Department of Social Services. Program completion does not ensure license approval.

Program Requirements:

  • ECSN 7300 - Family Childcare Business
  • ECSN 7301 - Child Health and Safety
  • ECSN 7302 - Developmental Needs of a Child
  • ECSN 7303 - Infant and Toddler Care
  • ECSN 7304 - Ethics and Business Contracts

The graduate of the Certificate of Competency in Early Childhood Studies: Family Childcare License Preparation will:

  • Successfully apply for an in-home daycare license.
  • Understand and implement regulatory conditions for an in-home daycare service.
  • Understand the developmental needs of the infants, toddlers, and children being served.
  • Provide a safe and enriching environment for the children being served.

Earn More!

Improving your job skills can lead you to new opportunities in higher-paying careers. Allan Hancock College students have used their job preparation as Business Owners, Commercial Truck Drivers, Floral Designers, Income Tax Preparers and more.

Interested in building the foundation to get started with a new career? Community Education offers several programs that can help you get your foot in the door and land a job in a new field.