Creating Careers with Confidence Paperback - 2008 - 1st Edition

Ed Colozzi is a career-life counselor whose special interests are careerdevelopment helping people discover their callings, meaning, and purpose across career and life roles and the creation of multimedia guidance materials for use in education, agency, and business settings as well as the home environment.

He has taught career development courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels and has provided in-service training and consultation to a wide variety of professionals in K-12, college, agency, and corporate settings. His 30 years of counseling and teaching include experience at Barnard College, Columbia University, Borough of Manhattan Community College at CUNY, the University of Hawaii, Chaminade University, Bunker Hill Community College, and Leeward Community College, where he served as the coordinator of the Career Development Center for 10 years.

Ed served on the Governor's Manpower Commission on Full Employment, State of Hawaii, for seven years and was project director for the pilot site of Career Kokua, a computerized career information system used extensively throughout Hawaii. He also served as project director for a mini-field test of Discover II, a national computer guidance system developed by JoAnn Harris-Bowlsbey and currently owned and distributed by the American College Testing (ACT) Program. He pioneered the career-life paradigm and the use of computerized career guidance throughout Hawaii and the Pacific Basin region in the late 1970s.

Born and raised in the Boston area, Ed earned his B.A. degree in Psychology from Boston University, a master's degree in Counseling Psychology with a specialty in Vocational Rehabilitation Counseling, and a second master's and his doctorate in Higher Education from Teachers College, Columbia University.

He is a nationally certified counselor (NCC), a licensed mental health counselor (MAMHC), a certified trainer for Massachusetts, a master career counselor (MCC), and a National Career Development Association (NCDA) Fellow.

Ed is the founder and owner of Career Development and Counseling Services, presently located in Winchester, Massachusetts. He also provides consultation services to national and multinational clients. He has created Internet-based career guidance materials and a career guidance game for middle school students, and has worked closely with several projects involving the development of statewide standards for career development. Moreover, Ed is a national trainer for several associations including the NCDA and the American Counseling Association, and he offers motivational presentations to a variety of school, college, agency, and corporate settings.

Ed has authored numerous articles, book chapters and, is the developer of DOVE (Depth-Oriented Values Extraction), a values clarification process that he created in 1978 and has used extensively with thousands of students and clients over the years.

You may contact Ed directly, toll-free, at 1-877-6-WISHES to speak with him. Or you can email him atcareercoachcolozzi@verizon.net, or visit hiswebsite blog atwww.creatingcareerswithconfidence.com.

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