Career Directions — the Career Lighthouse

At Career Directions—The Career Lighthouse—the focus is on YOU. You are the reason we are in business. Your success is our success. We guarantee confidentiality, personal service, quick response, and your satisfaction.

About Us ...

Sally Cofer-Lindberg, President of Career Directions, holds the prestigious "CPCC"—Certified Professional Career Coach— and the "CPRW Credentials"—Certified Professional Résumé Writer. Sally has a wealth of experience in career development and job search techniques. She has more than twenty years of experience covering a wide range of effective career counseling, including the following:

• Professional resume writer for over twenty years.
• True Colors© Certified Trainer in the areas of Career Development, Team Building and Conflict Resolution
• Certified Professional Career Coach
• Developer and presenter of multiple business-related seminars. Topics include, among others,
  • "Discovering Your Personal Vision"
  • "KEY Customer Service"
  • "Leadership Training"
  • "Conflict Resolution"
  • "Teamwork: the Heart of the Division"
  • "Champion Resumes"
  • "Interviewing with Skill and Power"
  • "Getting a Job in a Tight Market"
• Sally also presents personal development seminars that target goal setting, motivation and overcoming life crises.

Professional Associations

• Active member—Professional Association of Résumé Writers and Career Coaches.
• Active member—Career Master's Institute.
• Active member—International True Colors© Association.
• Active member—National Association of Résumé Writers.

Accomplishments

• Sought out for presentations and public speaking engagements throughout California and Nevada.
• Career Education Consultant with the Stanislaus County Office of Education, which affords frequent interaction with major employers and provides up-to-the-minute information on employment trends.
• Creation of a highly-successful job placement program for students with disabilities for Modesto Junior College, Modesto, CA (four years).
• Job Placement Coordinator—total student population, Modesto Junior College, Modesto, CA (five years).
• Elected by her peers as state president of the California Placement Association, a coalition of business, education, and governmental agencies dedicated to high-quality job placement in the state of California.

Media Productions:

• "Success Starts Here" (2009) DVD production highlighting Career Technical Education and Yosemite Regional Occupational Programs (ROP) in Stanislaus County; cutting-edge programs being viewed throughout California (writer/executive producer)
• "In My Eyes" (2004) DVD/VHS production, Lions Eye Foundation of CA-NV, Inc. (writer/director)
• "Reaching Out: Job Placement for Students with Disabilities" (1995) VHS production for the California Placement Association, supported by a grant from the Bob Dole Foundation (writer/director)
• "Helping Hands—Preserving the Gift of Sight" (1994), VHS production, Lions Eye Foundation of CA-NV, Inc. (writer/director)
• "The Time Is Now!" (1992), VHS production for the Stanislaus County Mayors' Committee for the Employment of Persons with Disabilities—production spotlighted county employers and their employees and received U.S. Presidential "First Place" Award bestowed in Washington, D.C. (producer)

Career Directions is a division of bhc Associates, Inc., an educational management consulting firm.