CERIC is launching a monthly podcast featuring interviews with leading contributors to its new textbook, Career Development Practice in Canada: Perspectives, Principles, and Professionalism. Called Textalks, each 30-minute episode will have an author providing insights on their chapter in the text and discussing their thoughts on the state of career development in Canada.

The first episode presents an interview with Phil Jarvis, Director of Global Partnerships at Career Cruising, which provides career exploration and planning resources to over 20,000 schools, libraries and employment centres. Jarvis’s chapter in the textbook is “Career Development: Key to Economic Development.”

Some of the topics covered in the discussion include:

• Workforce skills gaps and why our current processes to match people with jobs and meaningful careers remain so inefficient

• The “One-Percent Difference” and the social and economic costs of poor career development

• The new career management paradigm and the role of career development professionals within it

Career Development Practice in Canada is the country’s first career development textbook and was designed to be a learning tool for students, a resource for educators and a reference for career practitioners in the field.