Career Exploration and the
Workplace
ISI prepares individuals for the workplace in multiple ways:
ISI’s occupational courses have been developed through collaboration with leading vocational educators. The areas of focus include:
The following titles increase employability, encourage personal development and build interpersonal skills in the workplace:
Customer Service Representative
This course prepares adults for entry-level positions as a customer service representative. The topics covered include communications skills, problem solving, courtesy, confidentiality, and responsibility-in both retail and non-retail settings.
Estimated Course Length: 10-15 hours 
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Health Care Series
This series covers basic skills, key concepts, terms and tasks that are required knowledge for health care workers. Through lesson explanations and scored testing, students learn how to complete required tasks and define key terms.
Home Care Aide
This course is for adults who wish to work as Home Care Aides. It thoroughly covers the skills needed to be a Home Care Aide-including applying for a position, anatomy, physiology, medication, and skills working with patients of all ages.
Estimated Course Length: 40-60 hours.
Health Care Worker
This course is divided into twenty-one chapters covering a health care worker’s skills, everything from applying for a job, to skills in working with people. It is more comprehensive than the Home Care Aide course.
Estimated Course Length: 40-60 hours.
Nurse Assistant
Covering basic skills instruction required for an entry-level position as a Nurse Assistant, this curriculum offers the content of ISI’s Health Care Worker course, along with additional chapters focusing on aging and special patient care.
Estimated Course Length: 70 hours
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Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) Test Preparation
Developed as a preparation tool for those wanting to become Certified Nursing Assistants, CNA Test Preparation is a set of 28 exams assessing knowledge of health care environments, the role and responsibility of certified nurse assistants, basic medical and legal terminology, body systems and conditioning, and personal care procedures.
Estimated Length: 30 hours
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Office Skills
Office Skills
This
program provides basic skills instruction required for
entry-level positions as office workers. Learners
study key concepts and practices related to filing,
mail procedures, telephone communication, computer
software and information systems.
Estimated Course Length: 40-50 hours
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Building Maintenance Series
Electric
This course provides basic skills instruction necessary for an entry-level position as an electrician. Besides an introduction to electricity, the course covers topics such as wiring systems, switches, receptacles, light fixtures, bell systems, and thermostats.
Estimated Course Length: 22-25 hours
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Plumbing
The Plumbing course covers the basic skills necessary for an entry-level position as a plumber. Students learn basic plumbing concepts, including working with a variety of pipes and plumbing systems. Problems specific to the kitchen and bathroom are discussed.
Estimated Course Length: 22-25 hours
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Carpentry
This course provides basic skills instruction necessary for an entry-level position as a carpenter. Students learn about basic tools, safety rules, and basic carpentry concepts. Focus is also given to minor repairs relevant to windows and doors.
Estimated Course Length: 15-20 hours
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Child Care Series
This series is targeted to the training of a Teacher’s Aide. The courseware is divided into three levels of instruction, each designed to build specific competencies required by the U.S. Department of Labor’s apprenticeship program for Child Development Specialists.
Child Care Level I
Students learn the basic knowledge required for child care workers. Topics covered include stages in child development, behavior, nutrition, health, first aid, common medications, child abuse and working with families and communities.
Estimated Course Length: 20 hours
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Child Care Level II
This course expands on the stages in a child’s development, along with other skills that are needed for occupational proficiency such as creating a safe environment, handling food, playground safety, preventing falls, and other topics related to child safety.
Estimated Course Length: 20 hours
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Child Care Level III
Students focus on the child’s environment, hygiene, food service, self-help skills, guiding children’s behavior, and special needs.
Estimated Course Length: 17-20 hours
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Security Guard Series
Security Officer Training
This course provides a wide overview of the Security Officer Legislation and the Eight-Hour Pre-Assignment Training course for Security Officers.
Estimated Course Length: 10 hours
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Security Guard Pre-Assignment Training
This course covers all of the material presented in Security Officer Training Online, with the exception of report writing and patrol tactics.
Estimated Course Length: 8 hours
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Security Guard Cultural Awareness
Students focus on the racial and cultural diversity of our population. Highlighted is the need for awareness of sensitive social issues.
Estimated Course Length: 5 hours
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Security Guard Assessment Test
Consisting of 47 questions, this assessment gauges an individual’s knowledge and understanding of the role of the security guard, legal matters pertinent to the industry, level of preparedness related to handling emergencies and other situations relevant to the occupation.
Estimated Assessment Length: 1 hour.
