Bob Garner MS MA Ncc

Information may not be reliable

Welcome to the web site of Gardner Associates, a professional services organization, and the practice of Bob Gardner. Bob is a Master Career Counselor (MCC) and a Certified Professional Coach (CPC). As a professional career counselor, career coach, consultant, and Principal of Gardner Associates, Bob's career mission is to give you the best career information, resources, and guidance you need to resolve your employment and job worries or concerns, and achieve your career desires and goals. He truly believes that you can use your capacity to reach your full potential in your career, and be happy and successful in your career and your job.

To accomplish these goals, Bob is highly motivated to instill in you the awareness, motivation, and will power so your career goals can be achieved by you. More specifically, he can fulfill his mission by offering you carrer assessments and standard career tests for career and job changes, strategies to perform an effective and successful job search, ways of designing market driven/results oriented resumes, and performing well during interviews.

While you are in your existing job or in your new job, you can also be coached by Bob to: develop your abilities to lead yourself through your own self- leadership and be fully integrated and centered as a person with presence; change your communication styles to have influence with other people; alter your relationship styles with your supervisor and other authority figures to foster teamwork and your productivity; and enhance your personal skills to perform your job tasks required in your current and future job. Bob's mission is to be there for you when and wherever you need him for your development, transition, and success.

Bob has had several career and job changes himself. His most recent career change came when he left his Director of Human Resources position at an international airline to become a professional career counselor in his own business. This was a major change as he went from being in a manager of people position to a professional position performing one on one services for people. It was also a major change as he went from being in a generalist career position to being in a specialist career position. It also required going back to graduate school for a second time to earn a second master's degree to learn how to perform as a professional career counselor in private practice. Additionally, the transition required that he learn how to run and manage a small business.

He also has made changes between these careers and jobs: compensation analyst for a bank, a lecturer with extension courses at universities, an adjunct professor at a university, a management development trainer for companies in SE Asia, a consultant to companies, a recruiter, and an author of three books. From his own experience of moving from one company to another company, one job to another, and an Army Officer to a career in human resources, he has had to learn how to perform in different jobs and careers in organizations with different cultures, different people, and different styles of management.

From Bob's career and job changes, he has a lot of wisdom, awareness and insight, knowledge, and expereinces to pass onto you in your own transitions and job/career changes. He can do so because he can draw from his academic training in career counseling and coaching as well as his own experiences of changing jobs and careers. With these experiences and trainings, he can guide you in ways that will work for you when you make any job, career, or performance change or transition.

The Master Career Counselor (MCC) is the highest professional designation a professional career counselor can achieve. It requires 60 graduate units in an approved Masters counseling degree program at an approved University in the United States. The MCC also requires two separate national tests to be passed in two areas: one on counseling and one on career counseling. Additionally, the MCC candidate must successfully be supervised in the field for thousands of hours by trained professionals who have a related graduate degree in career counseling or psychology. Once these requirements are met, the Master Career Counseling (MCC) designation can be given to the career counselor.