ALICE RUSH, MA, RPCC, MCC
1961 Royal View Drive H (530) 626-1108
Placerville, CA 95667 W (916) 349-7855
www.linkedin.com/pub/alice-rush/1/34b/ab5
OBJECTIVE: Director of Distance Career Services
QUALIFICATIONS:
· 18 years career, academic, job search instruction and advising experience along with career counseling and training of diverse populations ages 14-75. Experienced teaching career life planning and selecting your major, college success courses at FLC, Foothill College, and performing academic advising for working adults through EduPlan and with high school students through Future Stars in Sacramento. Taught job search skills classes for major employee populations at Intel, Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, Raychem, County of Sacramento, Los Rios Workforce Learning and Resource Center, Sacramento Employment and Training (SETA). Experienced providing distance and online career counseling.
Over 10 years experience creating numerous internship programs within major corporations and small businesses to include Sun Microsystems, NCR corporation, Raychem, and Elder Options. Coordinated staffing of internships with community colleges. Interviewed, hired and supervised interns after creating internship programs. Trained new interns on business etiquette skills. Experienced teaching national tele-courses, online.
· Teach College Success Course at Folsom Lake Community College; assist new & established students in obtaining skills/knowledge to reach their educational goals. Deliverables include student motivation & discipline; memory development; time management; communication skills; career planning; transfer options; study skills; and student personal issues- stress and coping skills.
· Experienced developing student/ professional mentor, career speaker, college student internship and job placement programs for California Community College System.
· Former Senior Consultant for Top Recruiting Agency; expert in job search skill development for college graduates, Interns and diverse professionals from every industry.
· Expert in administering, validating and interpreting assessment instruments to include
· MBTI, Strong Interest Inventory, SDS, Skillscan, Motivational Card Sorts, Elevations, Career Design Guide, Rewarding Experiences Inventory, values inventories, 360’s.
· Experienced utilizing Eureka and diverse online academic planning research tools.
· Job One Board of Directors Active Member; providing value to our students through linkages to local businesses, advanced education and the community- to help our students achieve their goals.
· Passionate Counselor, Educator and Random House Published Author of “Paid to Play: An Insider’s Guide to Video Game Careers” and “Green Careers: Choosing Work for a Sustainable Future” New Society Publishers.
· Background also includes providing education and career development counseling / training for Fortune 500 organizations including Seton Healthcare, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Raychem, Grass Valley Group, Tektronics, Cable Data, OTS, KLA-Tencor, Tahoe Forest Hospital, Agilent, Genentech, Queen of the Valley Hospital, Delta Dental and other organizations.
· Co-created first Career Enrichment Program for Sacramento County to include online assessment tools; created Mentoring curriculum and for Delta Dental, Rancho Cordova.
· Certified and Registered Master Career Counselor (MCC).
· On-Site Career Center Development, Career Library Creation, created job fairs (Coherent Auburn, Placer Sierra Bank/ Wells Fargo, Grass Valley Group, Sun Micro.)
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Director of Operations and Business Development, Elder Options, Placerville, CA 2011-Present
Manage 75 employees, recruit, interview, train and orient all new hires. Conduct business development presentations in the community and for local Sacramento area employers resulting in business growth.
Folsom Lake College Adjunct Faculty, Work Experience and Human Services Depts. 2008-Present
Teach diverse students, (primarily EOP&S populations) Psychology of Human Relations, Introduction to Human Services, Interviewing & Counseling Skills, & Human Career Development/College Success courses helping students to reach career/educational goals. Serve on workforce development advisory committees.
CareerU®, Folsom and Placerville, CA 1994-Present
Career Counselor/Instructor/Author/Consultant Business Owner
Serve community ages 14-75 in private practice, providing career and education counseling, career research and reality testing of options, networking, interviewing and targeted resume skill building coaching,
counseling and instruction. Serve businesses through teaching and developing career development curriculum for local, national and international business/multi-cultural populations.
Manage private practice business administering, validating and interpreting career assessment instruments including MBTI, Strong, Career Design Guide, Rewarding Experiences inventory, Skillscan, and Elevations. Contract with Charter High Schools to provide career counseling and instruction for ‘at-risk youth’ and foster-care youth (Yuba and Marysville Charter High Schools.)
FUTURE STARS Career and Academic Assessment Counselor for high school and college students.
EDUPLAN Provide Academic, Career Counseling and Tele-courses for Employees interested in going back to school and using tuition reimbursement dollars wisely. Coach employees with Dr. Womack on CLEP, and credit for life/work experience, foreign transcript US equivalency options, DD214 Military Transcript evaluation options for credit, and best fit degree versus professional certificate options with goal to streamline and focus degree programs for working adults to ensure maximum return on education investment.
WILCOX MILLER AND NELSON Senior Outplacement Counselor and Leadership Development Coach.
Provide On-Site Career Center Development, library creation, instruction and 1:1 counseling for laid off employees. Coordinated speaker programs inviting community resource groups (EDD, Chamber of Commerce, Health Insurance Options, Golden Sierra, ROP and others for support in re-training and options during unemployment.) Administer Career Assessments to entry-level limited English speaking manufacturing populations through mid-level and senior executive level managers. Created resumes, practiced interviewing with clients for skill development.
Career Action Center, Palo Alto, CA (Non-Profit Community Career Counseling) 1991-1994
Career Counselor/ Resource Specialist/ Instructor- Sun Microsystems and Raychem
Helped develop first corporate on-site career centers. Managed Career Center Library. Taught career development courses. Counseled employees on career management, grief and crisis counseling, identity loss, stress management, job search, resume, networking, salary negotiation, and interviewing strategies within an ethnically diverse population; Hispanic, African American, Asian, Vietnamese predominant populations.
Foothill Community College, Los Altos Hills, CA 1990-1991
Career Counselor/Instructor Intern (Hired Part Time Faculty after Internship)
Provided career, educational and personal counseling to students. Administered and interpreted assessment tests. Co-taught career life planning classes. Matched students with professional mentors to clarify education and career goals. Presented orientations to student groups.
EDUCATION:
M.A. Counseling and Guidance, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA
· Graduated with Distinction, 3.96 GPA
· Group Leader: Stress Management Class
· Statewide Task Force, Job Placement Improvement Project
· Thesis: The Design of an Effective Job Placement Program
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B.S. Industrial Psychology, Business Minor, California State University, Hayward, CA.
· Graduated Magna Cum Laude
· Honor Citation Psychology Department
· National Dean’s List
· Industrial Psychology Degree Specialization and Business Administration Minor
· Summer Honors Program in English Literature, Middlesex Polytechnic, London, England
A.A., Psychology, Foothill Community College, Los Altos Hills, CA
· Graduated with High Honors
· Teacher’s Assistant, Biology Department
· Honor’s Credit, Stanford University Psychology Department
Advanced Training Using the MBTI and Holland Codes in Career Counseling, GS Consultants, Palo Alto, CA
Helping Job Seekers: Strategies and Resources, University of California Berkeley, Extension
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
Chair/Executive Director/Founder and Team Lead, SAHRA Foothills Region, El Dorado County, 2010-11
Economic Development Corporation/Job One Board of Directors, El Dorado County, 2007-Present
National Career Development Association; Career Planning and Adult Development Network
Former Member of: CCCCA, CCDA, BAAPT, and California Placement Association
NACE (Natl. Assoc. of Colleges & Employers), EACE, MWACE Conference Participant and Exhibitor, Going Global, 2010.
PUBLICATIONS:
Green Careers: Choosing Work For A Sustainable Future, New Society Publishers, 2009
Video Game Careers, Random House, 2008
Paid to Play: An Insider’s Guide to Video Game Careers, Random House and Prima Games, 2006
“CareerU for Success” Telegraph Newspaper Columnist
“The ROI of Career Development” CCDA Trade Journal
“Distance Counseling Methods and Tele-Counseling Approach,” NCDA Trade Magazine
The Job Placement Handbook (Member of Authoring Team), Published and Distributed by
The Chancellor’s Office, California Community Colleges.