Lisa Raufman
Career Strategist, Economic Justice Advocate & Executive V.P., NCJW Greater Long Beach (volunteer)
- Role
- Career Counselor at El Camino College
- Location
- Long Beach, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Lisa Raufman
My passion is to empower people to maximize their potential. Everyone has unique strengths and talents to share in the world. My life goal is to help people find ways to use their talents and feel a sense of self worth. I started my career focusing on community college students and expanded to faculty development to promote student success. I started out as a history major at UCLA with no awareness of how a major related to the real world of work. Luckily, I was a student worker in the UCLA Career Center and started my journey in understanding how a liberal arts education could be the key to becoming an educated person who could adapt to a rapidly changing workplace. Through several college years of research, I found that Community College Counseling and Career Counseling would become my passion. After being a counselor, career counselor, career center coordinator, I joined a few colleagues in writing The Career Fitness Program, Exercising Your Options which is now in its 10th edition. I am now a nationally published author with over 30 years of service in community colleges. My colleagues consider me an entrepreneur in regards to my book: I help market the book, I train others to teach with the textbook, I present at professional conferences. I update the book every three years. You could consider me a “part-time” entrepreneur and I am becoming increasingly interested in writing and publishing more. It is my way of giving back to society the lessons I have learned from the students I have counseled. Interestingly, although I was a History major and received a Masters in Counseling, the majority of students I counsel at the community college are business majors who are increasingly specializing in entrepreneurism!
Experience
Career Counselor
Jan 1997 — Present
From I was the Dean of Counseling and Matriculation
Education
UCLA
EdD., Higher Education
1987 — 1991
California State University, Los Angeles
Masters in Counseling, Community College and Rehabilitation Counseling
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