A training program in skills assessment and career guidance: the moments of choice and turning points, from the high schooler charting a path to the adult reinventing themselves.
Price subject to a pathway adjusted following the diagnostic interview.
By the end of this specialization, you know how to support someone who is hesitating, doubting, or wanting to change direction. You help them take stock of what they know and want, distinguish what they're asking for from what they're truly seeking - since a desire to "drop everything" often hides something else - and connect their aspirations to their skills and constraints.
You assess the feasibility of a project without discouraging it, and you adapt your framework depending on whether you're supporting an adult in career transition or a young person in career guidance, and the place this gives to parents. You close every engagement with a roadmap that the person validates themselves: the project belongs to them, they are its author.
Hold a diploma as an autonomous professional practitioner and demonstrate prior hands-on experience. Synodeo's Coach program meets this condition, but isn't required as such: any equivalent credential attesting to the ability to support clients autonomously is accepted, validated during the positioning assessment.
Career-guidance, assessment, and career-change frameworks; the legal framework of the skills assessment, its confidentiality, ownership of deliverables; and how to adapt your stance depending on whether you're meeting an adult in transition or a young person seeking direction - giving parents their rightful place, neither excluded nor deciding on their child's behalf.
Conducting an inventory of experience, interests, and values; distinguishing what the person says they want from what they're truly seeking - fleeing a job isn't the same as building a project -; and honestly assessing the feasibility and maturity of a project, including when a reservation must be voiced without extinguishing momentum.
Co-building a roadmap that the person authors themselves, equipping them to explore the field and the market - up to the job-shadowing inquiry that tests an idea against reality -, and preparing the move to action: your success is measured by the fact that they decide on their own.
One example of method and one case-study excerpt per module - taken directly from the program's courses.
Adapting the framework to the audience: a self-directed adult who pays and decides alone isn't supported the same way as a minor who arrives flanked by their parents - the stance, confidentiality, and the room left for decision-making change entirely.
On the same day, two appointments follow one another: a forty-one-year-old man comes alone to talk about a desire to "do something else" that he still can't quite name, and will leave to decide at home; a sixteen-year-old high schooler then arrives flanked by both her parents, who will sit with her for the whole session.
Distinguishing the stated request from the real request: an "I want to leave" can be as much a mature project as a flight response - the practitioner helps the person sort this out before committing to a direction.
A technician turned team leader states, right at the start of a session: "what I want is to leave." Digging into what lies behind this desire, he eventually formulates, sessions later, a more precise project: becoming a trainer in industrial maintenance.
Co-building a dated roadmap validated by the person themselves, then revisiting it a few weeks later to work on the move to action rather than rewriting it at the first setback.
Three weeks after validating his roadmap in his own hand, a man lists, in a voice less confident than usual, the reasons why the first steps haven't been taken. The practitioner doesn't question the project: she works on what's blocking the move to action.
Condensed, anonymized excerpts from the program's case studies - for teaching purposes, not transcripts of real sessions.
A program that's fully remote, designed to fit into the schedule of a working professional: you move forward at your own pace, supported at every step.
Content available whenever you want: frameworks and systems, inventory and request-analysis methods, feasibility tools, and case studies with annotated feedback where you watch career-guidance engagements built session after session - adult career changes as well as youth guidance.
A Synodeo mentor follows you over video from start to finish, to the tune of two hours included, alongside unlimited e-mail support. They review your transition engagements with you: how you analyze a request, how you voice a reservation, how you leave the decision to the person.
You document in it real guidance engagements conducted during the specialization - their stages, their turning points, your choices as a practitioner - and you draw from it an in-depth reflective analysis. This is the black book on which your diploma is built.
Your diploma doesn't validate knowledge about career guidance: it validates real engagements, carried out from the first session to the roadmap, and your ability to analyze them.
Role-play scenarios and case analyses punctuate the program and validate your progress, with constant attention to respecting the legal and ethical framework of the assessment and the autonomy left to the person.
You present, via the black book, a real engagement and its reflective analysis, defended over video before a Synodeo mentor. The assessment covers the structure of your engagement, the finesse of your request analysis, and the solidity of your framework.
At the end of the program, Synodeo awards you its professional diploma. It doesn't certify attendance: it validates competencies actually demonstrated in your black book, tested in real client work and developed with your mentor.
This diploma is part of a dual-recognition model. On one hand, a professional certification backed by an external professional body, which situates your competencies against industry standards. On the other, a professional diploma awarded by Synodeo, which puts the school's own responsibility behind the quality of your training and assessment.
Synodeo designs its own curricula and trains with full pedagogical autonomy; professional recognition, meanwhile, rests on a third party external to the school. The same rigor runs from the first case study to the final defense.