The Certified Internet Job Search Expert (CIJSE) course, formerly the Certified Career Research Expert, will allow you to learn to guide clients through the process of exploring their career options and tapping into the hidden job market. Suddenly the Internet goes from overwhelming to targeted as you learn about all the ways to leverage this vast tool to create targeted career and employment information plans for your clients.

Virtually anyone who works with job seekers should earn this certification!

Earning CDI's CIJSE allows the holder to be able to:

  • Identify and tap into the vast wealth of Internet job search resources

  • Evaluate and prioritize relevant sources of information for targeted career and employment research

  • Lead clients step-by-step through the creation and execution of effective career and job search plans

  • Identify most, if not all, appropriate career/employment targets for clients

  • Evaluate the relative worth of various Internet targets for career/employment information

  • Prioritize these targets in order of importance for clients.

The CIJSE will allow you to confidently provide your clients with the full spectrum of career services -- to provide coaching and training sessions on finding and identifying career and employment information on the Internet to creating targeted plans of action. If you are self-employed, you will have an exciting new revenue stream.

Laura Drew at CDI's 2009 Summit talking about the CIJSE course

Each section of the CIJSE is a self-study program that can be completed at your own pace.

At the completion of the modules, you will submit a completed portfolio of the completed exercises along with three client career plan case studies. Upon approval there will be a timed examination administered via email.

CIJSE Modules (updated from the 2007 CCRE course):

Modular Program I: Required Reading

Modular Program II: Electronic Internet Research Simplified

  
 

 
   

"The best thing about the Internet Job Search Expert certification course is that I have been able to apply the material immediately and on a daily basis with my students/clients.

The course takes you through every aspect of the internet search process and truly coaches the coach on how to teach clients to network and market themselves strategically.

The developers did a great job using research from experts in the field; it is evident that CDI puts massive amounts of energy into their coursework to ensure a quality result and practical usage."

 - Erin Meenan, C.D.F.,

   M.P.A., CIJSE,

   Champlain College

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"The CIJSE taught me different methods of gathering information from the Internet (far more than just the Internet job search as noted in the title). I learned to search more efficiently, effectively, and, most useful to me, the course made me think "outside the box". 

Since graduating from this course, I have found jobs for EVERY ONE of my clients, many of whom had spent months job searching before coming to me."

 - Laura Drew, CIJSE, CEIC,

   Carolina Career Coach

 

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Modular Program III: Researching Target Companies

Modular Program IV: Mining and Creating Positions through Press Releases, Business Related Trends and Spot Opportunities

Modular Program V: Identifying Career Opportunities using Professional Associations

Modular Program VI: Tapping into Job Boards

Modular Program VII: Leveraging Social Networking Tools in Job Search

Modular Program VIII: Capitalizing on Job Marketing Trends for Career Management & Career Change  

Modular Program IX: Final Project, Portfolio Development and Submission

Modular Program X: Validating Exam

Your investment in the CIJSE program is $350.00. Register now.

CDI membership is a prerequisite for registration. For more information on membership visit the Join page. Revocation policy.

For more information, contact CDI at info@careerdirectors.com or 321-752-0442 / 888-867-7972.

Additional Testimonials

“First of all the CIJSE was well worth the money!

What I like best from the course are the tools that were provided to conduct company research. Once you set up your alerts, you are done! This way our clients do not have to search for hours online or pay a fee to find research on their target companies.

The course teaches you not to go in circles on the internet and keep researching the same sites all the time. Our clients can do this forever! This is great information to share with our clients to help move them forward.

The course also discusses first being general with your searches and doing all of the research first, and then teaches you how to get more specific. From general, a fine tuned specific marketing plan should be created. It is a wealth of job search websites! Sites I never new existed and it has been a valuable asset to share these sites with my clients.”

 - Rose Rybski, Career Resolutions

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“I remember telling Laura of CDI the CIJSE should be a 'requirement' for us as part of the CARW. The information is very good! I really believe that in order to best serve our clients (especially now in this economy) the knowledge gained from this course will not only help you, but help your clients. Just the targeted industry resources alone is worth the time, effort, and money.

You may wonder why you need a certification to do a job search on the internet and who would need a certification for that. Well, you don't, but this course kicks up the concept a notch and teaches you how to be more efficient so it doesn't have to be as time consuming for you or your clients.

For those of you leery of taking a test, I am, too. The CIJSE test includes the research you will conduct. This course is not a mind-bending course if you are afraid of the testing. It is a course that give you a myriad of tools and resources necessary to conduct an effective job search for your clients and add an additional source of revenue for you. Or, you can teach them how to do it. I prefer the latter because I am a trainer too...and like the concept of give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, or teach a man to fish and he'll eat forever. =) This course has really helped me even when teaching my clients about the Federal job search so it can be applied to both private sector and Federal in a sense.

Don't hesitate if you are on the fence about this certification. You will love the knowledge you gain from it and it will make you money...and smarter.”

 - Camille Roberts, CC Career Services

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"This course vastly changed my way of thinking by presenting several techniques, ideas, and resources to accomplish the goal of customizing job search strategies into the hidden market and equipping clients with a feasible strategy to uncover opportunities they might not have otherwise thought about. The thing I especially appreciate most about this course is that I’m now able to help clients by developing a job search blue print for success in half of the time that it used to take me."  

 

 - Patricia Duckers, CFRWC, CMRW, CPRW, CERW, CEIP, CWPP
 
     
 
     

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