EXHIBIT HALL & SPONSORSHIPS

The NCDA Global Career Development Conference welcomes exhibitors and sponsors from public and private corporations, government agencies, educational institutions, and professional associations who offer career-related products and services such as books, media, computer-based systems, assessment instruments, and online services.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

View the 2024 Exhibitor Prospectus

 

QUESTIONS? View the FAQs or contact:
NCDA
305 N. Beech Circle
Broken Arrow, OK 74012
Phone: (918) 663-7060
Fax: (918) 663-7058
bnavarro@ncda.org

 

---

2024 Exhibitors:

BOOTH #100

Best Fit Career Finder
Contact: Daniel Greenwood
dan.greenwood@greenwoodsystem.com
www.bestfitcareerfinder.com

Best Fit Career Finder is the most up-to-date and research validated career counseling assessment, report, and process. In a single assessment and easy to use online administrative portal the BFCF assesses students’ Interests, Values, Personality, and Abilities to make their best-fit career matches, helping them make educational and life decisions.

 

BOOTH #101

Work Like a Mother
Contact: Dr. Hilary Berger
hilary@worklikeamother.com
www.worklikeamother.com

Work Like a Mother® rewrites the script for counseling women. It pioneers a proven mental health-oriented career counseling method legitimizing roles of motherhood and caregiver as integral to a woman’s career journey. This interactive workbook is a one-stop-shop solution for guiding career counselors and educators to counsel and advise women.

 

BOOTH #102

OneLifeTools
Contact: Mark Franklin
service@onelifetools.com
www.onelifetools.com

Who You Are Matters! from narrative leader, OneLifeTools, helps career professionals find “What’s Next” with their clients. Engaging games and evidence-based narrative tools guide individuals through a narrative process rooted in their life stories. The HEROIC-g framework developed by Mark Franklin & Rich Feller has successfully been used with 30,000+ globally.

 

BOOTH #103

Career One Stop
Contact: Kelly Tenner
kelly.tenner@state.mn.us
www.careeronestop.org

CareerOneStop.org, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, offers free electronic tools and resources to help users explore careers, education, training, and jobs. Check out mySkills, myFuture, Certification Finder, Skills Matcher, Interest Assessment, and more. Audiences served include job seekers, students, workforce development professionals, and businesses.

 

BOOTH #104

AFC Tests Psychométriques Inc.
Contact: Philippe Chevrette
info@afctests.com

Discover valuable information for fruitful discussions. AFC Holland is an inventory that goes deeper and measures vocational interests, self-perceived competence, personality traits, happiness at work and additional factors in just 40 minutes. All linked to Holland's typology. Your customers can make their choice thanks to a personalized exploration. They'll discover the occupational fields that appeal to them most, find out about examples of trades and professions, and explore the corresponding job descriptions on different sites.

 

BOOTH #105

Balanced Card Sorts
Contact: Anush Hansen
anush@balancedcardsorts.com
www.balancedcardsorts.com

Balanced Card Sorts® is committed to helping people move from burnout to balance by giving them tools to identify and prioritize their needs. The Work-Life Balance Card Sort is a simple, engaging and powerful resource for helping your clients, students or employees discover wellness and live by their values. 

 

BOOTH #106

SkillScan
Contact: Lesah Beckhusen
lesah@skillscan.com
www.skillscan.com

Discover SkillScan! Transform your career counseling with Drive, Express and Advance Pack – dynamic online and print transferable skills assessments. Uncover clients' key strengths, map career paths, and enhance client job search outcomes with holistic integration of Holland, Values, and Personality themes.  SkillScan is your solution for comprehensive and insightful career assessments.

 

BOOTH #107

Peak-Careers Consulting
Contact: Jim Peacock
jimpeacock@peak-careers.com
https://peak-careers.com

Peak-Careers Consulting offers professional development for career practitioners. We provide online discussion-based seminars, workshops, the Facilitator Career Development (FCD) class, and weekly career emails. Our unique online seminars are engaging, discussion-based with like-minded career practitioners. Approved provider by NCDA. Author of A Field Guide for Career Practitioners. Holland Theory Posters available.

 

BOOTH #108

SparkPath
Contact: JP Michel
jp@mysparkpath.com
www.mysparkpath.com

Come discover how the SparkPath Challenge Cards are helping career advisors scale their efforts across campus. Try our colorful card sort that shifts focus from job titles to challenges. 50,000+ students have broadened their horizons with this innovative approach, and so can yours!
 

BOOTH #109

NCDA BOOKSTORE
Contact: Natalie Scrimsher
nscrimsher@ncda.org
www.ncda.org

Fulfilling an important part of NCDA's mission, the Career Resource Store offers a variety of publications to support the work of diverse professionals in the field of career development. These quality products include books on assessment, cultural competence, experiential activities, and more. The monograph series covers topics such as career intervention, coaching, strengths assessment, group career counseling and more. Fill your suitcase, save shipping fees, and use your $5 off coupon at the conference bookstore!

 

BOOTH #110

Resume Writing Academy & Career Thought Leaders
Contact: Marie Zimenoff
marie@careerthoughtleaders.com
www.resumewritingacademy.com

Career Thought Leaders Consortium and Resume Writing Academy convene career service professionals to share best practices, deliver innovative educational and research programs, and promote the credibility, visibility, and professionalism of the careers industry. Stop by Booth 110 to get access to trends, resources, and leading-edge training to support your professional development – from writing resumes and LinkedIn profiles to creating coaching and personal branding programs, launching or growing your business, staying on top of industry trends, and improving candidate success. For free resources and information on upcoming events, visit www.careerthoughtleaders.com  and www.resumewritingacademy.com.

 

BOOTH # 111

Qatar Career Development Center
Contact: Abtesam Yousuf
abtesamyousuf@qf.org.qa
+9 745-587-5455
Qcdc.org.qa

Qatar Career Development Center, founded by Qatar Foundation, aims to help the youth, particularly but not restrictedly students, across all Qatar’s education system’s tracks and stages, including the youth with special needs, to identify and fulfill their education and career goals. The center offers them high quality bespoke career development programs, services and activities, seeking to mobilize, educate and support them on how best to make and implement sound career decisions and plans, grow and develop professionally, and achieve their life goals in such ways that best contribute to Qatar’s development and prosperity.

 

BOOTH #112 & 113

NCDA Mentoring Moments
Contact: Sharon Givens
sgivens62@gmail.com
https://www.ncda.org/aws/NCDA/pt/sp/mentoring_program

Do you have a career question or concern about your future? Here at the conference, professionals will have the opportunity to engage in “Mentoring Moments”. This will entail 15–30-minute segments where experienced career development professionals will connect with early career development professionals to support career wellness. The interaction is free, but sign-up is required and space is limited. We will try to accommodate walk-ins.

 

BOOTH #114

NCDA Training and Education Council
Contact: Mary Ann Powell
mpowell@ncda.org 
https://www.ncda.org/aws/NCDA/pt/sp/training

Stop by the NCDA Training and Education Council booth to visit Council members about the NCDA Facilitating Career Development Training Program and the School Career Development Advisor Program. These programs provide strong foundational career development skills to assist others in planning their careers. TEC members will be available to answer questions about the training program and Instructor Training programs.

 

BOOTH #115

NCDA Credentialing Commission
Contact: Mary Ann Powell
mpowell@ncda.org  
www.ncdacredentialing.org

Questions about Credentialing? Come visit the NCDA Credentialing Commission’s booth to learn everything you need to know about credentialing (but were afraid to ask)! Our credentialing commissioners will be at the ready to “talk shop” about the application process, continuing education, credentialing standards, and so much more.

 

BOOTH #116

Institute of Career Advising & Development (ICAD)
Contact: Paige McDonough
mcdonoughp@kuder.com
icadlearn.com

The Institute for Career Advising & Development (ICAD) empowers career practitioners to support clients in creating and refining their career pathway. ICAD, a division of Kuder, Inc., provides a variety of professional learning courses and delivery formats to equip practitioners with the knowledge, skills, and tools to enhance their services.

 

BOOTH #117

ERS Scale
Contact: Mukhtar Rahemtulla
mrahemtulla@ersscale.com
ERSscale.com

The ERS is an online, 20 minutes, self-assessment tool that measures clients’ soft skills, and skills to manage work-life. It links clients’ results to an action planning tool. Through reassessments following interventions, it measures clients’ progress towards becoming employment ready.  ERS is an outcome validated tool with 80% predictive accuracy.

 

BOOTH #118

American Association of Certified Orthoptists
Contact: Amanda Yonkers
aaco@orthoptics.org
Orthoptics.org

Certified Orthoptists® (CO®) are advanced practice providers in the ophthalmology field who are uniquely skilled in the evaluation and treatment of binocular vision and eye movement disorders. Qualified to design and manage a program of non-surgical management of these disorders, orthoptists work with patients of all ages, under the indirect supervision of an ophthalmologist in a clinic setting.  We are a lesser known profession and are seeking to increase awareness of the career opportunities in this field. 

 

BOOTH #119

 

BOOTH #120

American Counseling Association (ACA)
Contact: Caressa Morris
cmorris@counseling.org
www.counseling.org

We are home for professional counseling. Founded in 1952, ACA is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the growth and enhancement of the counseling profession. We provide education, community and professional development opportunities for more than 58,000 members, including counselors in various practice settings and counselors in training.

 

BOOTH #121

Geographic Solutions
Contact: Charlotte Phipps
cphipps@geosolinc.com

Geographic Solutions is the leading provider of online employment software for state and local workforce agencies in over 35 states and U.S. territories. The company’s Virtual Career Center solution is a career exploration tool that guides students to success through assessments, education and training, internships, job search, and more.

 

BOOTH #122

California Career Development Association
Contact: Kegan Barroso
ccdaconnect@gamil.com

CCDA has been a well-established State CDA for 20+ years. We provide our members CEU-granting professional development events, community-building opportunities, and an annual conference Our 2024 conference was titled: Harmony in Progress: Nurturing Mental Health, Career Growth and Life Balance. Stop by our booth and we would love to connect!

 

BOOTH #123

YouScience
Contact: Melissa Schneider
melissa.schneider@youscience.com
youscience.com

YouScience is the leading technology provider dedicated to solving the skills gap crisis for students and employers. YouScience Brightpath is the first-of-its-kind aptitude-based guidance platform that leverages data and artificial intelligence to help students identify their aptitudes, validate their skills, and get matched with educational and career pathways.

 

BOOTH #124

Jobscan
Contact: Isaac Taylor
isaac.taylor@jobscan.co
www.jobscan.co

Streamline document review with Jobscan's powerful AI tools. Our platform swiftly aligns with job descriptions, significantly boosting your clients' visibility and interview prospects. Recover valuable time and focus on high-impact coaching to elevate career readiness.

 

BOOTH #125

AARP
Contact: Angela Harris
aharris@aarp.org
aarp.org

 

 

---