Helping Students with Career Preparedness

    Looking to enhance career skills, impress potential employers, or learn new
    ways to market hard and soft skills? Mission Hope Foundation's Quick Career courses are
    an excellent way to help students enhance or kickstart their journey.
   
    Through each Quick Career course at Mission Hope, students will gain valuable
    knowledge that will help them to prepare for their professional journey. 

    

  

Quick Career Course Benefits

  • Fast-Tracked. Quick Career courses are designed to be completed in less than 30 minutes.
  • Stackable. Each Quick Career course can be used to demonstrate a student's proficiency in a variety of career areas.
  • Practical. Students can gain new skills that they can use in the real-world. 


What is a Quick Career course?

Our Quick Career courses offer advance learning in a range of career preparation topics. Each course is designed to help students gain a deeper understanding of the workforce and candidate marketing. 


Cost of Quick Career courses?

Our Quick Career courses are FREE! 


Who should enroll in a Quick Career course?

While our courses are designed to support students in secondary and post-secondary learning environments, anyone looking to gain a deeper understanding in workforce preparedness can take a Quick Career course.


What is involved in completing a Quick Career course?

Our Quick Career courses are designed in an easy-to-use format. To get started, simply select the Quick Career course desired, enroll in the course, watch the training video, complete any related coursework, and complete the course's Knowledge Assessment with a passing score of 80% or higher, and a Course Completion Certificate will be awarded. That is all to it!

FAQ's

Q: How are Quick Career courses designed at Mission Hope Foundation?

A: Our courses are designed by Career Development Facilitators that are experts in the career preparation field. Our Quick Career courses are aligned with state and federal Career Readiness learning standards.


Q: How will a Quick Career course help a student?
A: We aim to provide students with a distilled perspective of career related topics. We design our courses to be true-to-life. This makes our content relevant and can be easily applied immediately upon completing the Quick Career course. 

Q: What will be given when a Quick Career course is completed?
A: When participants successfully complete a Quick Career course, they are awarded a course completion certificate.  Click the hyperlink to view a sample Quick Career Course Completion Certificate.  


2025-2026 Quick Career Courses:

Quick Career courses are offered on an open rotating basis. Below you will find our current Quick Career course offerings:  

image Understanding Hard, Soft, and Transferable Skills

Course No: 24F-CD01

Course Description: Understanding Hard, Soft, and Transferable Skills emphasizes foundational information for students to develop knowledge and skills to prepare them for employment. As part of this course, students will learn what hard, soft, and transferable skills are and how they are important in the workplace.

Cost: Free

Course Credit: .25

image Understanding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Course No: 24F-CD02

Course Description: Understanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is a structured course that trains students and teachers how to create a more inclusive and equitable learning environment and subsequently workplace. This course explores how power and privilege can influence institutional and societal structures and lead to oppression, poverty, marginalization, alienation, and inequity.

Cost: Free

Course Credit: .25

image Goal-Setting for Students

Course No: 24F-CD03

Course Description: Goal-Setting for Students is a set of practices for helping individual students understand their academic performance, identify concrete goals for future performance, and collaborate with their teacher on the behaviors and practices that will get them there.

Cost: Free

Course Credit: .25

image Time Management for Students

Course No: 24F-CD04

Course Description: Time Managment for Students delves into the core principles of time management as a soft skill, emphasizing its critical role in punctuality, reliability, and job performance. Participants will learn how to prioritize tasks effectively, set SMART goals, and create actionable plans to maximize their time and resources.

Cost: Free

Course Credit: .25