Looking for FREE resume boosters in business and/or social work

I am looking for FREE resume boosters in business and/or social work. I am looking for FREE and online certifications, CEU's, diploma, courses, etc that can be used to beef up the resume in business and/or social work. Please list anything that you know of. Thanks!

 

(1) Joining a professional body associated with your career goalsis one good way to go (student memberships are usually the lowest cost membership). For example:
ASQ http://www.asq.org/membership/individuals/overview.html
American Management Assn http://www.amanet.org/joinama/individual.htm

(2) Write papers or a book

(3) Suscribe to Wall Street Jounal and a business magazine (Fortune?)

(4) Enroll in a degree program. "I am enrolled in a BS Economics prgoram at TESC with expected graduation date of 2010. XX of 12 units completed to date."

(5) Become a volunteer - museums, red cross (employes like having staff that can handle emergencies), theaters, etc.

(6) Any other activitity or work experience that shows you as a reliable/dependable employee.

 

Excellent ideas. Anything else?

 

MichaelGates posted this on the free CEU thread. I noticed they offer 2 free certificates if you complete the outlined series of 5 classes each. You have to register, but it's all free. I signed up for a few food related courses today. Once you register, you can go into certificate options, it doesn't look like you can see that option from the general home page. The certs are:

Certificate Program Name: Environmental Health in Disasters Certificate Program

Description: This certificate program includes courses that provide an introduction and the fundamentals to risk assessment and environmental health in disasters. In addition, special topics such environmental health in emergency shelters, environmental sampling and environmental monitoring are also the focus of this program. This certificate program is composed of 5 courses. To see the course titles and enroll to the program please log in to the LMS

Certificate Program Name: First Responder Preparedness Certificate Program

Description: This certificate program covers subjects in communication, field exercises, handling chemical agents and biological response preparedness. There are five courses required for this certificate, course titles will be shown once you enroll to the certificate program through the LMS.






South Central Public Health Partnership (SCPHP)

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South Central Public Health Partnership (SCPHP)

http://lms.southcentralpartnership.org/scphp

All courses are free and some courses offer CEUS.

 

eBasedAcademy

http://ebasedacademy.org

All Courses offered on eBasedAcademy are completely FREE to Ohio Professionals! eBasedAcademy is coordinated by the Ohio Resource Network and funded by the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services (ODADAS).

 

National Association of Social Workers

National Association of Social Workers

NASW WebEd is the venue for online course offerings developed and offered by the NASW National Office. NASW WebEd courses are credited and social workers who pass the course exam will receive CEUs.

http://www.naswwebed.org

 

Excellent resources. Keep them coming!

 

How about the FEMA certificates?

 

Is each class a certificate or do you need a collection of classes to comprise a certificate? Link?

 

Each FEMA Independent Study Course that is completed results in the issuing of a single certificate for that course. Certificates are issued online as pdf documents.

http://training.fema.gov/IS/crslist.asp

Seven specific FEMA IS Courses may be taken to earn The Professional Development Series certificate.

http://training.fema.gov/IS/searchIS.asp?keywords=PDS

All are free. All courses are recorded on a transcript that can be ordered at no cost.

http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/downloads/tranrqst1.pdf

 

Good stuff. Is there anything similar for leadership/management?

 

MichaelGates posted this on the free CEU thread. I noticed they offer 2 free certificates if you complete the outlined series of 5 classes each. You have to register, but it's all free. I signed up for a few food related courses today. Once you register, you can go into certificate options, it doesn't look like you can see that option from the general home page. The certs are:

Certificate Program Name: Environmental Health in Disasters Certificate Program
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I did these last night. Pros- they are on video. They are free and fast. Figure about 3-5 hours max if you watch every second of every video. Cons-these required me to upload something to play the videos- I think it's Saba (whatever that is) and it keeps making my computer freeze! So, after I take a quiz, I have to reboot. The lectures I watched were terribly boring (one guy especially was quite possibly the worst presenter I have ever seen!?!), but the quizzes were easy.

 

Train

TRAIN, the premier learning resource for professionals who protect the public's health. A free service of the Public Health Foundation, www.train.org is part of the newly expanded TrainingFinder Real-time Affiliate Integrated Network (TRAIN).

https://www.train.org

 

Excellent! I am looking for a FREE or VERY cheap certification that I can complete this upcoming weekend in leadership/management or something in education/special education. Any ideas?

I already plan on doing the three autism courses and the FEMA courses this week. I am looking for something for this upcoming weekend.

Thanks!

 

North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness (NCCPHP)
http://nccphp.sph.unc.edu/training/index.php

Crisis Leadership: Leadership at the Speed of Light
http://nccphp.sph.unc.edu/training/HEP_CRL/certificate.php

Free, Online, Certificate.

 

I don't know if $75-125 is "very" cheap for you but there is also the Peace Operations Training Institute around, formerly known as Unitar-Pocci (some Uno sub-divison) issuring certificates in mostly peacekeeping related subjects:
https://secure.peaceopstraining.org/
Most of them carry Army Correspondence Course Program (ACCP) credits.

 

I am applying for a paraprofessional position this weekend. To boost my resume, I am going to do the following:

FEMA Certification, which includes leadership, decision making, and effective communication components
http://training.fema.gov/IS/searchIS.asp?keywords=PDS

Online Autism Training
http://autism.pbisillinois.org/training.htm

I am still looking for some FREE or VERY affordable online paraprofessional training that I can register for as a private party. I would also like to find a certificate in education that I could complete online and/or some sort of certificate in leadership/management. Let me know if you think of anything else. THANKS!!!

 

Council for Exceptional Children

The Council for Exceptional Children offers professional development:

http://www.cec.sped.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Professional_Development

 

Have your considered joining some professional organizations to boost credibility?

http://www.aphsa.org/
American Public Human Services Association

http://www.nationalhumanservices.org/
National Organization for Human Services

To name a few.