Many Canadians Look For Help When It Comes To Career Planning

Toronto, ON – January 19, 2006 – According to a new Ipsos Reid survey conducted on behalf of the Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling (CERIC), if Canadians were to start again to plan their career or work-life, two-thirds (65%) would try to get more career planning or job information than they did initially. “The survey also found that one in ten (8%) Canadians have required assistance in making career plans or in selecting, changing, or getting a job. over the past year,” said Robert Shea, CERIC’s president, and director of Memorial University’s Career and Experiential Learning department, St. John’s, Newfoundland. Added Shea, “And among those who received career planning assistance in the past year, while a good majority of seven in ten (71%) say that is was useful, a substantial minority (27%) feel it was not.”…