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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 school counselor, certification provides tools to help students choose a major and explore career options. For a career coach, certification delivers an additional tool for helping clients with professional development, employee engagement, and reintegration into the workplace. In addition, it can empower professionals to help students looking for enriching extracurricular activities and adults seeking to broaden their interests. 

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 retain employees by uncovering work areas in which their people are more likely to thrive.
     

Who should attend Strong certification training?

 
  • Guidance counselors
  • Career counselors
  • Academic advisors
  • Middle and high school teachers and counselors
  • University faculty already familiar with basic career guidance practices
  • Career coaches
  • HR managers and consultants
     

What will you learn?

 
  • Holland’s theory of personalities and work environments (RIASEC) 
  • Techniques for interpreting the Strong assessment’s scales and applying its insights
  • Validity and reliability information
  • Instructions for administering the assessment and using Strong reports and support materials for career exploration and development
  • Testing and measurement concepts
  • Ethical considerations 
  • Ways to provide feedback and response to client questions
     

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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

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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

Hold an on-site training program
If there are 10 or more people at your organization wishing to become certified, we can run Strong certification training on site.
Strong On-Site Certification Page
Participate in distance learning
Complete an online learning program delivered by our training partner GS Consultants.
Get more information and pricing
Join a public program
Strong certification is delivered in various locations in the U.S. by our training partner GS Consultants.
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