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About Patty
Patty Edwards Shaver is a certified Global Career Development Facilitator (GCDF) and Distance Credentialed Facilitator (DCF) with a passion for guiding career explorers as they chart their career course. She fulfills her vocational goals through mentoring, writing and desktop publishing.
Shaver enjoys the mentoring relationships she builds with Jobs For Life (JFL) students and team members at Trinity Baptist Church in Raleigh. Assisting students as they explore careers and learn how to market themselves to potential employers is a small part of what JFL is about. By graduation, students have also removed roadblocks, created a vocational plan, and gained the confidence to achieve their career goals.
As an employment specialist at JobLink Career Center in Raleigh, Shaver coached the unemployed with resume writing and internet job searches. Recognizing the stress and feelings that accompany job loss, Shaver quickly established rapport with clients by helping them relax and feel good about themselves, leading to productive outcomes and smiling faces by the end of her coaching sessions.
In addition to spending one-on-one time with clients, Shaver enjoys writing about people and their careers. She attempts to capture the passion in their voices as they talk about what motivates them in their chosen vocation. Several of her articles were published in the Biblical Recorder where she worked as a desktop publisher.
Shaver has also written career development articles for Career Choices in North Carolina, an annual publication of the State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (SOICC) and designed and formatted the following career development publications targeted to high schools, colleges and career centers across the state.
- Career Choices in North Carolina
- Career Choices User's Guides (youth and adult)
- Family Tool Kit (English and Spanish)
- Career Pathway Posters (English and Spanish)
Shaver is a member of the National Career Development Association
