Career Hero Academy
Help your clients find real work by helping them become more real. Career Hero is a new, self-paced and online version of ‘The Implicit Career Search’ - the internationally renowned program developed upon the results of research conducted over a 4 year period with 768 unemployed clients in British Columbia, Canada.
Working On Purpose
FLEXIBILITY!
A live, and lively, online, condensed version designed to complement the Career Hero Program. Participants may delve further into each of the workshop explorations, or may simply move onto Modules 6 and 7 of Career Hero. Or they may return to further explore each module at anytime they wish.
Participants will
experience Modules 1-6 of Career Hero: Taking Charge, Getting Unstuck, Getting Real, Working On Purpose, Career Development and Strategic Planning
Gain Clarity on
what it takes to develop a fulfilling future career while working to meet the demands of the present
Complete a report
Experience
short lecturettes, quizzes, group discussions, guided imageries, movement (yes!) exercises and...
Support....Support....Support!
2024 Schedule
April 8 -12 May 13 - 17
June 17-21 August 26-30
Sept. 30 -Oct. 4 Nov. 18-22
Dec. 16-20
2025:
January 20-24
Feb. 24-28 March 24-28
June 17-21 August 26-30
Sept. 30 -Oct. 4 Nov. 18-22
Dec. 16-20
2025:
January 20-24
Feb. 24-28 March 24-28
For Career Advisors:
A freshly motivated, focussed and purposeful client ready to participate enthusiastically in the other programs you have to offer.
Career Hero transformed the way we get our clients back into work. It's almost magical.
Brendan Bakay
Procurement and Resource Management - Contract and Procurement Specialist, Government of Alberta
Is your employment agency looking for:
The missing piece?
An approach that unites all your other tools and methodologies into one focused plan for you and your clients.
The main motivator?
Awakening the desire in your clients to contribute, to participate, will provide them with powerful motivation to take full advantage of the other programs you provide.
Results?
Numerous studies on The Implicit Career Search have proven that placing an emphasis on long-term visionary planning produces greater results in short-term employment procurement.
Are your clients facing these challenges?
Want more than a survival job but still want to survive?
Wait till you find out what a seed job is.
The problem with ‘survival jobs’ is they usually end sooner than you want them to, and you are left looking for another ‘survival job.’
Now a seed job helps your plan grow roots, get established, in order for the rest of the plan to germinate.
Want to do work that is meaningful, pays well, contributes to their community but…
don’t know where to start? Career Hero is ‘stackable’ in design. The learnings from Module 1 are applied in Module 2. The learnings from Modules 1 and 2 are applied in Module 3. And so on, until the plan emerges in Module 6.
Have no idea what type of resume, cover letter, Linkedin profile, etc. is effective?
Module 7 is waiting for them!
All ICS aligned programs are based on the modules described below.
Once you download the map, click on each of the icons to learn how to apply the world’s most powerful motivator to developing and delivering an attainable, sustainable and fulfilling career.
The Implicit Career Search is a fantastic career discovery tool. It helps draw out things we've forgotten about ourselves, passions, interests, skills and thoughts/ideas from the past. These hidden knowings are often the road map to the career that is best suited to us. Whether it's the mature worker forced to find a new career, someone new to the workforce and everyone in between, ICS is a great tool to assist clients in informed career decision making.
FAWN NIELSEN, BC CERTIFIED CAREER DEVELOPMENT PRACTITIONER
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#1 Results from independent studies
Check the results these programs have been delivering over the last 35 years. Click each tab to discover the results from the independent studies conducted on ICS.
CLIENTS IN ALBERTA
"Near the beginning of Module 5, work mentality was brought up, and this is something that really resonated with me. The notion of "TGIF", or living for the weekend, work seen as a "chore" that you must "get through", working to live vs. living to work... etc. This has definitely been a mindset that I had grown up with and something that I've been working on changing as I've gone through the course. I think a major person "win" up until now was realizing that if your work is in line with your greater purpose, it can be fun, rewarding and fulfilling."
Ksenia, Career Hero Participant 2021
"I have completed Module 3, written what I think is my Mission Statement, and shared it with the group even though that makes me a little uncomfortable. I feel like this course is something every person should take."
Nicole Sylvestre, Career Hero Participant 2021
"The career beliefs that resonated with me more are 'There are no jobs out there' and 'I must follow the steps in the correct order'.
I picked up the 'There are no jobs out there' belief from listening to other people unable to get what they wanted. I am tired of hearing this and I want to figure out a way to prove this belief wrong. I picked up 'I must follow the steps in the correct order' from high school and university. Though I appreciate the structure of following steps, I am looking for ways to quickly get from point A to point B on my career path. I like to believe that shorter and less painful paths may exist to allow us to get to where we want to go.
I was really, really surprised that the Self-Esteem produced insights in my current career path. That's not to say I view the last 20+ years of my education and jobs as a waste. It is more the realization that I should pivot away from jobs/careers that further isolate me from people."
Alex Chang, Career Hero Participant 2021
Alex Chang, Career Hero Participant 2021
"I think identifying payoffs can help me realize why I act in certain ways. I may have gained gratification or satisfaction but the act may harm me in the long-term. This helped me have a better understanding about myself and can definitely help me make better decisions in the future. [After this program], my goal is to become a regulatory and environmental compliance professional specific in greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants."
Marie Lau, Career Hero Participant 2021
CAREER COUNSELLORS
“Most
employment programs only motivate their clients for a very short time whereas
individuals who have taken the Implicit Career Search leave inspired as they
have a greater connection with themselves and a renewed sense of self-esteem,
and self worth which creates more determination to achieve their personal and
professional best. Through experiencing the ICS, clients discover a deeper
connection to the work they are meant to do and in many cases their
contribution is far more enduring than those returning to work for sake of a
pay cheque. As job retention is
enhanced, clients are therefore less likely to return to government financial
assistance.
Over the
past 7 years, this program has continually met and exceeded their contractual
targets and the program evaluations from both the clients and the funder have
been extremely positive.
We feel
confident that the Implicit Career Search is the best career tool available
today and your clients and community can only benefit from this important
resource.”
Shannon Carphin, RRP Director of Programs PACIFIC JUSTICE SERVICES ASSOCIATION
“I have been facilitating a three-day version of the Implicit Career Search workshop at a WorkBC Employment services agency in BC for the past three years. Employment consultants in the agency refer their clients to the workshop. Some of the most profound feedback I have received is from them. They have told me that their clients come back to them with greater clarity and focus. They find it particularly useful for clients that are pursuing training because they come out of the workshop with more confidence in their choice of career and a solid plan. ICS helped me define my very rewarding career and every time I deliver the workshop I feel like it is doing the same for others.”
Heidi Abbott, Career Counsellor Parksville Career Centre, BC
Shannon Carphin, RRP Director of Programs PACIFIC JUSTICE SERVICES ASSOCIATION
“I have been facilitating a three-day version of the Implicit Career Search workshop at a WorkBC Employment services agency in BC for the past three years. Employment consultants in the agency refer their clients to the workshop. Some of the most profound feedback I have received is from them. They have told me that their clients come back to them with greater clarity and focus. They find it particularly useful for clients that are pursuing training because they come out of the workshop with more confidence in their choice of career and a solid plan. ICS helped me define my very rewarding career and every time I deliver the workshop I feel like it is doing the same for others.”
Heidi Abbott, Career Counsellor Parksville Career Centre, BC
“I am currently delivering ICS to
groups of tier 3 and 4’s under the EPBC mandate and am achieving greater
results than I had hoped for! Clients actively participate in each module, attendance
is almost perfect and they are moving on from ICS to enthusiastically
participate in the other services we have to offer.”
“In a 3-day, 6-module workshop,
ICS can accomplish what might ordinarily take weeks of Case Management sessions
and separate individual or group workshops.”
Bill Brown, Community Partnership Coordinator/Facilitator, Alberni
Valley Employment Centre, Port Alberni, BC
“I have seen ICS turn around a
group of long-term unemployed jobseekers from low energy and despondent to
energized and focused. This career- based solution is profoundly ground
breaking.”
Bill Davies, Senior Consultant, JCA (Occupational Psychologists) Ltd, Cheltenham, UK.
PRISONERS
An excerpt from a report written by Fred Stratton, Acting Deputy Warden, Surrey, BC, Canada Pre-Trial Centre after The Implicit Career Search was delivered to 12 remand prisoners:
“…At the end of the course the participants each completed a course evaluation. My experience with these types of evaluations is that either the course is generally accepted and appreciated or written off by the group. In this instance I was pleased to see that the participants unanimously found this to be a helpful and intuitive course. Some comments were:
“This course helped me identify my essence and gave me the guidance and tools to become a more respectful, focused, confident and aware person.”
“The course was awesome and the facilitators were great”
“I really feel this program will change my life, in a better way and I feel wonderful.”
“...it revealed a lot about myself that I did not know.”
“It was very inspirational... instructors were very professional... I give it 10/10”
“Taught me how to make better choices”
“This course gave me tools that I can use in my everyday life.”
“I really believe this course will change my life in a better way and I feel wonderful.”
“Wow! I’m learning.”
“I would like this course to be offered to other inmates.”
Overall these were the type of comments we received from all participants. There were a lot of comments about finding essence and motivation. Next were the references to improved planning skills and overall were the comments about thoroughly enjoying the course. My follow up with the participants showed a retained improvement in their outlook for inmates that were still in this centre, after several weeks. Only a follow up in subsequent years will be able to show a long term effect but the fact that I had a number of other people ask for the course shows the word of mouth was good from participants to their friends. My experience with Steve and Tedd left me comfortable with their style of delivery for both inmates and staff. There was a solid connection within the group.”
“…At the end of the course the participants each completed a course evaluation. My experience with these types of evaluations is that either the course is generally accepted and appreciated or written off by the group. In this instance I was pleased to see that the participants unanimously found this to be a helpful and intuitive course. Some comments were:
“This course helped me identify my essence and gave me the guidance and tools to become a more respectful, focused, confident and aware person.”
“The course was awesome and the facilitators were great”
“I really feel this program will change my life, in a better way and I feel wonderful.”
“...it revealed a lot about myself that I did not know.”
“It was very inspirational... instructors were very professional... I give it 10/10”
“Taught me how to make better choices”
“This course gave me tools that I can use in my everyday life.”
“I really believe this course will change my life in a better way and I feel wonderful.”
“Wow! I’m learning.”
“I would like this course to be offered to other inmates.”
Overall these were the type of comments we received from all participants. There were a lot of comments about finding essence and motivation. Next were the references to improved planning skills and overall were the comments about thoroughly enjoying the course. My follow up with the participants showed a retained improvement in their outlook for inmates that were still in this centre, after several weeks. Only a follow up in subsequent years will be able to show a long term effect but the fact that I had a number of other people ask for the course shows the word of mouth was good from participants to their friends. My experience with Steve and Tedd left me comfortable with their style of delivery for both inmates and staff. There was a solid connection within the group.”
Fred Stratton, Acting Deputy Warden, Surrey Pre-Trial Centre
FIRST NATIONS
“Each of the ICS trainees have now identified career plans which have conjured up a passion for what they are really interested in life. This has created an additional 12 jobs and is leading us to help establish longer term businesses for some of the individuals in reaching their dreams. Dreams that have been crystallized by Steve Miller’s great coaching work in his “Implicit Career Search” program.”
Jeremy Cooke, P. Eng. CEO: Adams Lake Corporation
‘On day two of this workshop I realized why it felt weird…of all the many programs I have participated in, and been forced to take, this is the first one that talks about me. Weird!”
Monica Kenoras, Neskainlith Indian Band.
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