Career Training

Seminars listed on this page:

To obtain current class dates, times, and fees:

  1. Open eResources (You will need the class number located in parenthesis after the class title)
  2. Navigate to Non-Credit Registration
  3. Navigate to "Register and Pay for Continuing Education Classes"

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Banking/Financial Industry

Bank Teller Training (MGT 816)
Joliet Junior College has partnered with the Illinois Bankers Association (IBA) to provide short term training for persons interested in an entry level position in banking. According to the Department of Labor, there are over 500,000 bank teller positions in the country and employment is projected to grow. Bilingual skills are especially in demand. This eight week course focuses on the skills new tellers need in today's banking industry. Topics include the basic functions of the banking industry, defines a teller's responsibility within the bank and the most recent compliance information Learn a variety of daily transaction procedures, how to provide quality customer service, how to recognize counterfeit currency, fraud schemes, and the tricks used by con artists. Learn how to complete Currency Transactions and Suspicious Activity reports, and balance a teller drawer.

Healthcare

Medical Billing and Coding (WSST 412)
This intensive sixteen week course allows the student to earn a Medical Billing and Coding certificate. Rapid growth in the number of medical tests, treatments, and procedures that will be required by our aging population as well as increasingly complex insurance and governmental regulations will generate employment growth in this field. Job prospects are predicted in physician’s offices, home health care services, and outpatient care centers. Topics include medical terminology, insurance procedures, ICD-9 Coding, CPT Coding, and much more.

Pharmacy Technician Certification Program (MGT 5170)
This program will prepare the student for an entry-level pharmacy technician position in a wide variety of settings such as retail, hospital, and managed health care facilities. Pharmacy Technicians report directly to a licensed pharmacist and perform many pharmacy-related functions such as entering prescriptions into a computer, verifying prescriptions, ordering medication, and preparing medication inventories. Upon completion of the program, students will be prepared to take the Pharmacy Technician Certification Board examination.

Sleep Laboratory Technician Training
Polysomnography is the study of an individual's sleep. Millions of Americans suffer from sleep disorders. Over 80 types of sleep disorders are recognized by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). Diagnosis may require an overnight stay in a sleep disorder clinic while being monitored by a polysomnography technician ("sleep technician"). The sleep technician applies sensors to the patient's scalp, face, neck, legs and body and monitors their physiologic parameters of sleep. Growth in the number of sleep laboratories supports an increasing demand for trained professionals. From three accredited labs in 1975, this industry has grown to 990 AASM accredited labs in 2006.

Fundamentals in Polysomnography (MGT 440)
The program is designed to provide a solid foundation for the sleep technician. Whether new to the field or arriving with experience, the tools gained from this program will help to cultivate an understanding and appreciation for the importance of sleep data collection and analysis process. Develop the skills to collect a quality sleep study with an introduction to polysomnography scoring procedures. Topics include abnormal sleep patterns, collecting an EEG signal, sleep staging, respiratory events, and medications.

Legal Nurse Consultant Training Course (CERT 600)
The Legal Nurse Consultant (LNC) training program prepares RNs and Physicians’ Assistants to work in the burgeoning LNC industry, where you can serve as an expert advisor or researcher on medical issues for law firms, health care providers, insurance companies and governmental agencies. The six-day program is held over three weekends, teaching about legal concepts related to the health care industry. Also included is the role a LNC plays in litigation, perhaps as an expert witness in medical malpractice, toxic torts, products liability, personal injury, emotional distress, wrongful death and other types of cases. The curriculum complies with educational guidelines established by the American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants, and is offered in cooperation with The Center for Legal Studies. Students are responsible to purchase books through The Center for Legal Studies.

Legal Secretary Training Course (CERT 602)
This intensive program is designed for both beginning and experienced secretaries who are interested in improving their skills and working more efficiently within a law office. Students will study such topics as: legal terminology; legal process; jurisdiction and venue; ethics; written communications including letters, pleadings, discovery, notices and motions; filing procedures, billing and accounting; time management; records management; computers, word and data processing; legal research; memoranda preparation, and citation format. Students are responsible to purchase books through The Center for Legal Studies.

Paralegal Training Course (CERT 601)
New employment doors can swing open with the Paralegal Training Course at Joliet Junior College, offered in partnership with the Center for Legal Studies. Students will learn how to interview witnesses, investigate complex fact patterns, research the law, prepare legal documents, and assist in preparing cases for courtroom litigation. The instruction is practice-oriented and relates to those areas of law in which paralegals are most highly needed. This 6-weekend course is ideal for administrative assistants looking to work at a law firm, current legal secretaries looking to expand their training and responsibilities, and those seeking entry-level positions. Student is responsible to purchase books through The Center for Legal Studies.

Security Training

Security Officer Basic Training (WSPD 644)
Are you interested in finding a career in the security field as an unarmed security guard or would you like to enhance your present job skills and earn state certification? Security officer basic training will prepare new security officers and experienced employees for employment with a certified agency under the Illinois Private Detective, Private Security and Private Alarm Act. This training meets the requirements of the Illinois State Mandate for 20 hour unarmed private security training.