Winter 2014 edition of Careering ‘Looks Back and Reaches Forward’
January 9, 2014Riz Ibrahim becomes Executive Director of CERIC
January 10, 2014
2004… It sounds like such a long time ago – and yet so close.
Do you remember how your life was in 2004? Where were you working? How were you feeling about your career?
2004 was the year of Paul Martin’s election as Prime Minister, the Summer Olympics in Athens, the re-election of US President George W. Bush and the tsunami in Southeast Asia.
During that year, six Canadian provinces and territories legalized same-sex marriage (the Canadian government would follow suit in 2005). It was also the year of the first same-sex divorce.
In 2004, the Toronto Argonauts won the Grey cup, the Stanley cup went to the Tampa Bay Lightning, and the Expos played their last game in Montreal. Alice Munro received the Giller prize for Runaway, and Denys Arcand’s The Barbarian Invasions won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was in 2004 that Facebook launched and Google had its initial IPO.
2004 was also the year CERIC was launched, and it’s celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2014! The charitable organization was created to advance the body of knowledge in career development in Canada and took under its wing many noteworthy programs that predated it, such as the ContactPoint and OrientAction online communities for career practitioners and The Canadian Journal of Career Development. It also published Careering’s predecessor, The Bulletin.
When The Bulletin transformed into Careering last year, it was a change that reflected CERIC’s continuous growth and adaptation to the ever-changing sphere of career development in Canada – a growth that saw its annual conference, Cannexus, becoming the biggest career development event of its kind in Canada, and the projects it supported becoming more diverse and far-reaching.
This special issue of Careering magazine takes a look back at how career development changed in Canada during this past decade, and reaches forward to the opportunities and challenges that we see coming in years ahead. We do this through a series of “Top 10” articles and other content that explore the evolution of the field.
Here’s to another decade of advancing career development!
