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Strong Interest Inventory® certification enables you to provide your clients, students or employees with dynamic career direction and insight into options that align with their interests and abilities. For a career counselor, certification provides tools to help students choose a major, explore career options – even select enriching extracurricular activities. For a career coach or human resources professional, certification delivers an additional tool for helping individuals with professional development, engagement, transition, and retention. It can also be a powerful tool for adults transitioning to retirement – a way to explore possibilities related to leisure pursuits or volunteer opportunities.  



Why become Strong certified?

 

The Strong Certification Program will enable you to:

  • Empower individuals to identify careers, jobs, and activities that closely align with their interests. 
  • Offer different perspectives on career direction, from general areas of interest to specific occupations.
  • Provide robust and reliable data about a person’s interests and work preferences.
  • Help organizations engage and retain employees by uncovering work areas in which their people are more likely to thrive.
     

Who should attend Strong certification training?

 
  • Career counselors
  • Academic advisors
  • Career coaches
  • HR managers and consultants
  • Executive coaches

What will you learn?

 
  • Holland’s theory of personalities and work environments (RIASEC)
  • Unique components of the Strong Interest Inventory assessment (Basic Interest Scales, Occupational Scales, and Personal Style Scales)
  • Techniques for interpreting the Strong assessment’s scales, and applying its insights in education, business, and personal settings
  • Considerations when working with challenging Strong assessment profiles
  • How to deliver feedback to individuals, using the results for career exploration, employee reengagement, personal and professional development, and more
  • Technical aspects of the assessment, including information on reliability and validity
  • Instructions for ethically administering the assessment and using Strong reports and support materials for career exploration and development

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We have been using the Strong assessment in our career development classes for employees for a number of years. We want to help our employees identify their key areas of interest so they can better leverage their skills. Our goal is to improve employee engagement, ultimately leading to higher rates of employee retention.

— Bob Klein Schmidt, Senior Organization Development Consultant, The Johns Hopkins University

Employees Eating
For us, the Strong Interest Inventory ® really helps as part of our program, to support students or clients verify and discover their calling.

— Dave Broza, Director, Career Development and Calling, Bethel University

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A good instrument to invest in with a good return on the investment for your students.

— Kathleen I Powell, Administrator, The College of William & Mary

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Strong Interest Inventory is the best assessment tool on the market for the cost as well as the information that it provides for students.

— Kelly Bell, Director of Career Services, Anderson University

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Three ways to become Strong certified

TRAIN YOUR GROUP IN-HOUSE
If there are 10 or more people at your organization wanting to become Strong certified, we can deliver virtual or in-house certification training for your group.
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Join a public program
For individuals and groups of fewer than 10, public Strong certification programs are delivered virtually and in-person throughout the year.
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Self-paced learning
Complete an online learning program delivered by our training partner, GS Consultants.
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Certification Dates

ONLINE | August 24-25, 2021

COST

This program will be delivered virtually.

$1000

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Register by 8/13/2021

ONLINE | September 23-24, 2021

COST

This program will be delivered virtually.

$1000

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Register by 9/13/2021

ONLINE | December 2-3, 2021

COST

This program will be delivered virtually.

$1000

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Register by 11/22/2021

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