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Counselling Workshops

Workshop Descriptions

Acing Multiple Choice Tests will provide you with strategies for successfully preparing and writing multiple choice tests and exams.

Common Cents: Managing your Money is a workshop that will help you improve how you handle your money. You’ll learn how to create a personal budget and understand more about handling your needs, wants and assessing both your income and your expenses.

Cover Letter will teach you how to create an effective and powerful cover letter which will highlight your skills and qualifications.

Countdown to Finals will help you identify challenges you may face in preparing for finals get you started with a plan of action to get the most out of your studying.

Countdown to Midterms will help you identify challenges you may face in preparing for midterms and help you get started with a plan of action to get the most out of your studying.

Getting it Together & Keeping it Together will provide you with techniques to set academic goals and stick to them! Both long term goals and short term goals will be explored in this workshop.

Interview Preparation will help you take some of the guess work and stress out of the interview process. Learn about what questions to expect and strategies for how to answer them, different interview formats and more.

Learning and Study Strategies will explore strategies based on brain research to help you study smarter not longer. Learn a strategy to keep up with weekly reading assignments and turn class time into learning time.

Netiquette, or “network etiquette” in a high tech world will help increase your awareness of issues related to sending emails, text messages, and using your cell phone, mp3 player, laptop or any other gadget you own appropriately and effectively in the College or a work setting.

Network to Get Work will give you the necessary information you need to use networking as an effective job searching tool.

Networking at a Career Fair will give you the necessary information you need to use networking as an effective job searching tool at a Career Fair.

Note-Making will help you learn different note-making strategies, develop a personal technique and improve your ability to learn from lectures and textbooks.

Professional Portfolios will give you information to begin creating and assembling your portfolio and discuss strategies for how to use it effectively in job interviews.

Résumé Polish (Bring your résumé) will teach you how to enhance your résumé and make it stand out from others to employers.

Sleep Better, Work Smarter will help you learn more about the importance of sleep and give you strategies to determine how to improve your sleep.

Stress Management will help you identify major stress factors in your life and explore practical solutions to manage and/or change them.

Succeeding as a Mature Student is a workshop that will allow mature students to share ideas about their unique challenges as students and learn effective ways to be successful at College.

Time Management will provide you with helpful information and strategies around managing your time. Using techniques learned in the workshop, you will begin to develop your own approach to managing your priorities.

Understanding Your Learning Style will explore your strengths in learning and help you recognize how you best take in and understand new learning for optimum use of your class and study time.

What’s What: Get Organized: Do you want to figure out how to organize you schoolwork? Come and discover how simple it can be. You will be shown easy techniques that will help you succeed in your college program.

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Revised: January 21, 2010