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Join the Cannexus online community
Start your networking early by getting involved in this new and exciting interactive online community created around the conference and exclusive to Cannexus13 participants. Sponsored by Career Cruising, the Cannexus community is accessible via your desktop or as an app on your mobile phone. Connect and collaborate before, during and after the event itself.
You’ll be able to:
- Create your own detailed profile page
- View the profiles and interests of the other attendees
- Build a personalized schedule of sessions to attend
- Download hand-outs and materials
- Schedule 1:1 meetings with other attendees
- Join the conversations we’re having about topics critical to our field
If you are registering or have already registered for Cannexus, you’ll receive your personal e-vite to join the online community.
Cannexus is Canada’s bilingual National Career Development Conference. Presented by CERIC, the conference will take place January 28-30, 2013 in Ottawa.
CERIC and ACPI present The Panic Free Job Search, Oct. 23
CERIC is pleased to be working with the Association of Career Professionals International (ACPI) to present an evening with Paul Hill author of The Panic Free Job Search. The event will take place in Toronto on Tuesday, October 23, 2012 from 5:30 pm to 8:30 pm.
Drawing from his book, Hill will show career professionals how to:
- Energize and inspire job-hunters through Alignment and Confidence
- Convert job-hunters from an applicant to a candidate mind-set
- Get job-hunters hired through Tactical rule breaking and targeted search
Paul Hill is recognized as a new breed of job search expert by his loyal followers, dedicated to guiding and educating professionals to be proactive about career management by adopting professional Internet branding best practices through his work as chief instructor and principal of Transition to Hired, a division of ADV Advanced Technical Services Inc. (ADV).
CERIC is partnering with select associations and organizations across Canada to present a series of professional development events. These “Mini-Forums” are intended to engage career practitioners in the communities where they work and provide valuable, cost-effective learning opportunities.
View the event flyer and register now!
Be CareerWise!
Canada’s career professionals now have a new resource at their disposal! Each week CERIC’s ContactPoint web site will put together some of the most interesting articles on career counselling and career development. Called CareerWise, this new electronic publication will keep you current, enrich your work – and save you time.
News articles and blogs in the first issue include:
- Companies struggling to attract critical-skill, high-potential workers
- Retirement Planning: An Emerging Role for Career Counsellors
- University of Saskatchewan Career Program Assessments Help Aboriginal Students Succeed
- Advocating, educating, inspiring: the expanding role of career professionals
- Canada’s youth largely working or learning
- Record number of Canadians starting own businesses
- Why ‘follow your passion’ is bad advice
- The Top 75 Websites For Your Career
A French-language version of CareerWise from ContactPoint’s sister site OrientAction will start in the coming weeks.
Contact us about CareerWise at contactpoint@ceric.ca. Advertising opportunities are available.
New webinar: Interpreting Career Assessments in a Group Setting
There is growing pressure in every sector for career professionals to see more clients – and to do this with fewer resources. Whether you are in a university, community agency or corporate office, one emerging strategy is to deliver assessment debriefs in a group setting. But how do you streamline the process without jeopardizing quality?
CERIC is delighted to bring you this original webinar with recognized North American expert Serena Santillanes. From the convenience of your desk, learn the current best practices to deliver a productive group debrief of an assessment interpretation.
Strategies for Effectively Interpreting Career Assessments in a Group Setting
Date: Thursday, November 8, 2012
Presenter: Serena Santillanes, M.S., NCC, MCC, President, Career Journeys, Inc.
Time: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET
Cost: $45/person
For more information or to register, please visit: http://cericwebinar1.eventbrite.com/
New literature search: Canadian Career Development Research
If you are looking for best practice information in career development, one new and one updated literature searches have now been posted to the CERIC website.
- Canadian Career Development Research: 2000 – 2012 (new)
- Mental Health Issues in the Workplace (updated)
There are a total of 11 literature searches available. They feature comprehensive listings of key research and articles in career development, highlighting critical points of current knowledge.
Literature searches are of great value if you are considering submission to CERIC for project partnership funding. You can gain an overview of major work already done in your area of interest.
Follow these links to explore the other literature searches:
- Evaluation and Best Practices of Career Services (.pdf)
- Early Intervention Career Development for Children and Adolescents (.pdf)
- Career Development Theory and Career Management Models (.pdf)
- Career Practitioning with Social Impact (.pdf)
- Generational Conflict in the Workplace (.pdf)
- Impact of Career Development (.pdf)
- Impact of Social Media on Career Counselling (.pdf)
- Learning Disabilities in the Workplace (.pdf)
- Women in Non-Traditional Careers (.pdf)