Basics of Social Capital Literacy

COURSE OVERVIEW

You are working hard to help others find a job or you are trying to find one yourself. You are frustrated by the number of applications that you had to submit and the no callbacks that you had to endure. You spend your time and your energy using the best job hunt strategies and you attend networking events like the best of them, but are you doing everything you can for your own professional and personal growth? In this two-hour course, participants will learn basics of social captial literacy and how it differs greatly from networking.

You can’t find the opportunities that you didn’t know exist!

Through a social captial framework, you can significantly increase the chances of gainful employment and success for yourself as well as those you serve.

Participants in the Basics of Social Capital course will examine the role of familial, developmental, and gateway social capital assets and be able to identify and apply these assets to their own career development efforts or the career development efforts of others.

Instruction will utilize virtual assets including Zoom, Google Classroom, and YouTube.

COURSE ASSESSMENT

Participants will complete an assessment to gauge their level of social capital literacy gain.