Strategies for Today’s Jobs!

Your career isn’t something that happens to you. It is something you build through intentional and purposeful choices. Hit your STRIDE with a job search approach that enables you to stand out in a competitive market.

Class Highlights

Strategies for Today’s Jobs is a free, non-credit 8-week course that shows you how to succeed in the job search process with clarity and confidence. Using our signature STRIDE  approach (Strengths, Target, Reflection, Impact, Direction, Engage), we help you take a career and life design point of view to finding work that is more than just a job. It is a fit.

Whether you are looking for an internship, launching a career, changing employers, or transitioning into a new role, the Strategies for Today’s Jobs course provides you with the know-how to find work that aligns with your strengths, values, and “why.” 

Our toolkit for success includes:

• 8 two-hour classes on topics like writing and/or revising your resume and cover letter, establishing your professional brand, creating a portfolio, writing a LinkedIn profile, building your professional community, interviewing, and negotiating your salary
• Weekly 1-on-1 career coaching to provide personalized help on creating job search materials and refining your messaging to get results
• Access to premium job search platforms and assessment tools like Big Interview, Goldi, Career Coach, and CliftonStrengths

Who Can Benefit?

This free course is for anyone looking for their next move into a full-time job, consulting gig, internship, apprenticeship, or career exploration. Everyone is welcome, not just currently enrolled ACC students. See registration instructions below.

Course Expectations

This course meets 2 hours a week for 8 weeks. To receive a Satisfactory grade, students must meet attendance and assignment requirements and meet weekly with an assigned Career Specialist. Please review our sample course syllabus.

Summer and Fall 2026

Note: At different times of the year, we offer three versions of this course tailored to specific job markets. While the core curriculum is identical, please register for the single section that best aligns with your career goals.

Register Now!

Already have an ACC ID? If you’ve ever applied to or taken classes at ACC in the past, follow these steps:

• You first need your ACC ID and Password. This can be retrieved Here if you don’t remember it.
• Go to the registration page found Here.
• Click on “Register Now” Under Course Registration and follow all steps.
• Click on “Register and Pay for Continuing Education Classes” (You will not be charged!)
• Select AARX for “Course Prefix” and type either 3002 or 3003 or 3005 for “Course Number” and Click on “Submit”
• If you need step-by-step instructions, you can find a tutorial Here.

If you are a new student and have never applied to or attended ACC, please follow these directions:

• Go to This link.
• Click “Apply Now” under New Students to start your application.
• You may register for classes following the directions above for current students after you get to the point in the application where you have set up your ACC ID, Password, and Email.- If you need step-by-step instructions, you can find a tutorial Here.

Contact Career Services for more information or for help registering for the class:

[email protected]

512-223-1470