The IDAK Group offers a full line of training and client/corporate service packages for professionals who provide counseling and consulting services in career guidance, outplacement, mid-career advancement counseling, and organizational counseling. To acquaint you with our systems, we provide a counselor/consultant’s sampler which allows you to sample our major product the IDAK Career Match™. By using this on yourself or a client, you will have the very best indicator of how our system fits your practice. With our introductory sampler, we provide a one hour (over the telephone) printout interpretation to guide you through the information and to answer your questions.

Many counselors are able to use our system without any further training because of it’s user friendly design.

The focus of our IDAK Assessment Systems is the assessment of Natural Talents. Natural Talents are set apart from other important aptitudes such as traits, work skills, motivational drive, interests and values. We believe Natural Talents are the best predictor of future “best match” career options. By establishing Natural Talents as the key to a person’s unique identity, we are then able to assimilate other critical information about a person’s aptitudes derived from personality tests and other inventories and exercises you currently may be using.

In addition to sampling our IDAK Career Match™System, we have different levels of introductory and advanced training, publications and video products.

If you are interested in learning more about counselor/coach training, please contact us by phone at 1-800-245-1108 or by e-mail at inquiries@idakgroup.com. 

 

Professionals who use IDAK Systems

Since 1980, when IDAK was founded, over 700 professionals have purchased and used our IDAK System.  The majority of these professionals are in the lower and upper Mid-West and West Coast, with a few in Florida and the New England States.

  • 35% have their own practice consisting of outplacement, career management, business consulting, marriage and family counseling and psychological counseling.

 

  • 30% consist of non-profit and ministry service organizations who use our systems to screen candidates for placement and to resolve job performance problems.
  • 20% consist of colleges and seminaries which have career development  programs for students.  Some schools contract with us for counselors; others supply their own whom we train.  Degree completion programs and alumni career service programs are also services which use our systems.
  • 15% of professionals are human resource officers (counselors) or internal management development specialists who work directly with their own managers, staff and employees.  Their organizations consist of for-profit as well as government agencies.

With this diversity, you can expect that several professionals use our systems in multiple applications within their business community.

IDAK can expand your counseling and consulting practice

When counseling or consulting professionals contact IDAK, their primary interest is usually directed to what services we can provide to expand their menu of counseling and consulting capabilities. Listed below are the most common IDAK service “packages” which are used by professionals.  IDAK provides training for counseling professionals in the use of our products and services and how to structure them for billable time.

Counseling Services

1.         Career Advancement Assessment for individual client.

2.         Aptitude Assessment for organizations application: Conflict Resolution, Performance Intervention, Repositioning.

3.         Mid-Career Advancement Counseling for individual or group. 

Consulting Services

1.         Outplacement Consulting for individual. Two to twelve months of service.

2.         Mid-Career Advancement Seminar for either college alumni or internally for organizational application.  Seminar is formatted in three two-hour sessions over a three week period.

3.         Management Assessment for organizations’ senior management. 

4.         Candidate Screening for job applicants. Service has two options: internal screening for promotions and external screening. 

5.         Ministry Leadership Assessment Services for overseas missionary candidates, church planting candidates and pastoral appointments, as well as burn-out or conflict resolutions.

IDAK training

 

All IDAK training is scheduled and led by a certified trainer from our Portland office.  Occasionally a certified and designated trainer from another location may be used.  Training dates, fees, curriculum and certification standards are set by Portland office.  Please contact our offices to learn more about the training services we offer for counseling and consulting professionals.