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NEW CERTIFICATION!

In a job search and in your own business, if you are invisible online and don't understand the new ways of finding and creating job opportunities, you are losing out on BIG opportunities!

REGULARLY UPDATED & EXPANDED!

 

The Internet has changed the way we do business, the way we find jobs, and the way we grow our businesses! If you want both you and your clients to succeed, then the Certified Professional in Online Job Search and Reputation Management is a must!

What are the Topics Covered?

This newly-updated course combines:

  • The best of tried-and-true job search strategies and how to perform them efficiently and effectively online.

  • Cutting-edge social strategies which encompass online networking and job development as well as online identity and reputation management.

  • Tools you can use to help your clients as well as boost your own online visibility and expertise.

Whether you want to educate your clients in workshops or one-to-one coaching, create online identities, stay up-to-date on new industry trends, or simply be skilled in performing job search and career management activities, here's what you will learn:

  • Powerful search strategy techniques to find what you are seeking using blogs, websites, databases, directories, and online identity evaluation sites.

  • A to Z on identifying, researching, and evaluating target companies online. Drill down to the details to help select companies and find data to prepare clients for interviews.

  • Internet tools for identifying hidden job opportunities.

  • Job board tools, Facebook search applications, and Mobile search applications to understand, once and for all, how job boards can be used effectively and which are optimized to meet your clients' needs from niche boards to new job matching boards, job board mobile applications, and competitive analysis tools as well as integrated social search apps.

  • One stop to social networking, the job search, and online identity. 23 key success strategies (click link to view) are examined in detail from creating LinkedIn profiles to curating content and blogging, to creating podcasts and radio shows, and cleaning up digital dirt. New 2/17/11 update expands to topics such as QR Codes, Facebook Resumes, LinkedIn Resumes, and new LinkedIn & Facebook apps.

  • Online Career management tools and resources for smooth tracking and transition.

  • Professional association resources to identify job, career, industry, and networking opportunities.

  • Sample strategy campaign plans which include online identity campaigns for job seekers, consultants, and solo-preneurs; career research campaigns (resources for pursuing a new career), and job opportunity identification campaigns.

What is involved?

The course begins with recommended (not required reading) and moves into seven modules of course material with exercises for completion in each which will be submitted as part of a final portfolio of work.

The ninth module includes the sample campaigns and instructions on creating three such campaign case studies for the completion of the portfolio. These case studies can be created on real or fictional clients, and have even been completed by students on their own personal and business identities.

Upon successful completion and approval of the portfolio and case studies, the certification will be issued. There is no final exam.

 

Who should take this certification?

Any career professional who wants to understand how to effectively utilize the Internet for job search, online identity, and reputation management.

Remember - this course blends old and new so while you may come upon techniques with which you are familiar, we have made every effort to introduce new techniques and online spins that make the common easier, more efficient, more innovative, and more effective.

What is the timeframe and cost?

Since it is a self-paced curriculum, you can take as long as you need. However, most students would be able to easily complete the program in approximately 6-8 weeks by committing 3-5 hours per week. There are no live class sessions to ensure you have the flexibility to work at your own pace. You will be provided with support and feedback as needed from the course creator as your mentor throughout the program to ensure your success!

Special Rates!

Course Registration - only $579.00

CIJSE graduate or student? Get the update - $229.00

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DI membership is a prerequisite for registration. For more information on membership visit the Join page.

Certification renewal

The CP-OJSRM certification must be renewed every three (3) years by purchasing the program update modules. Depending on how comprehensive industry  changes are, the update may range from $25-250.

Revocation policy.

 

   

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This credential

replaces the former CIJSE. Renewal is recommended to

stay up-to-date.

Special thanks to content contributors (Module 7):

  • Laura Labovich - Aspire! Empower! Career Strategy Group

  • Barb Poole - Hire Imaging, LLC

  • Darlene Dassy - Dynamic Resume Solutions

  • Erin Kennedy - Professional Resume Services

  • Gayle Howard - Top Margin Career Marketing

 
   

TESTIMONIALS

"I am so excited about all of the amazing tools I learned about through the OJSRM certification modules! I am still having fun picking new ones to explore further each day.

CDI really has fantastic programs and they are no joke--you have to work hard for CDI credentials! But, you truly learn so much in the process. OJSRM is my first CDI certification, but I hope it's not the last--there are so many more amazing programs that I want to do!"

- Dr. Colleen Georges,

  Colleen's Career Creations

 

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"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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"This is a must have course for anyone who coaches or works with job seekers. The job market is changing every day. The traditional ways of finding work has changed forever. This course teaches how to find and secure job opportunities on-line. The information and materials are in abundance!"

- Catherine Palmiere, Adam

   Personnel, Inc.
 

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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

 

READ MORE TESTIMONIALS

 

 

Old Logo / Course Replacement

CDI still recognizes the original CIJSE logo, although the course is no longer offered and the information is considered out-of-date as of February 2011. It is recommended that you update as soon as possible to the CP-OJSRM, which incorporates the new and critical online job search trends of today.

Additional Testimonials

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

 

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“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, CEIP, CWPP, MMRW

 
     
 
     

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