Fall CJCD largest yet; includes focus on young Canadians, synchronicity learning, employer branding

The Fall 2024 edition of the Canadian Journal of Career Development (CJCD) marks its largest to date and the first under new Editor Jennifer Browne. The issue starts with a poignant editorial honouring the journal’s Founding Editor Rob Shea, who passed away unexpectedly earlier this year. Inside this edition of the journal are articles from across Canada and beyond, including Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Topics focus on youth, young adults, employers, employees, career development theory and career within today’s context.

Articles

• Successful Career Decision-Making of Young Canadians in a Digital Economy, Esther Nordin, Dr. Deepak Mathew
• When Digital Transformation Meets the Pandemic: What Experiences for Executives? (Abstract in English, full article in French), Émilie Giguère, Imane Zineb Lahrizi, Simon Viviers, Marcelo Balboa, Mégane Drouin
• Career Development Support, Career-Related Internet Information Search and Usefulness, and Career Decision-Making Difficulties in 12th Grade Students in Ontario, André Samson, Alexander R. Maisonneuve, Kokou A. Atitsogbe, Zacharie Saint-Georges, Natasha Chénier-Ayotte
• Synchronicity Learning Theory: Happenstance Learning Theory Re-envisioned, Janet Payne
• Happy But Exhausted: The Role of Passion in Explaining the Mitigated Psychological State of Health and Social Services Nonprofit Workers, Alexandra Giroux, Sophie Meunier
• The Main Psychological Constructs Assessed and Psychometric Instruments Used by Quebec Guidance Counsellors (Abstract in English, full article in French), Sabruna Dorceus, Yann Le Corff, Éric Yergeau
• Employer Branding: Through the Lens of Career Growth and Organizational Attractiveness, Shimmy Francis, Sangeetha Rangasamy
• Career Decision Self-efficacy Mediates the Relationship Between General Self-efficacy and Career Decision-making of Undergraduate Students, Eugene Yaw Milledzi, Lebbaeus Asamani, Abigail Opoku Mensah, Victoria Naamwanuru
• The Relationship between New Career Approach Attitudes and Subjective Career Success Perceptions of Typical and Flexible Employees, Eugene Yaw Milledzi, Lebbaeus Asamani, Abigail Opoku Mensah, Victoria Naamwanuru
• Distinct Paths to Protean Career Attitude: Family and Peer Support as Mediated by Grit Among Emerging Filipino Adults, Jan Patrick Gutierrez, Maricris Bueno, Denzel Frinz Portugal, Felimon Lapuz III, Angelli Mai Cervantes, Jana Gabrielle Fabric

Academic book reviews

• Book Review of “Mapping the Future of Undergraduate Career Education”, Noah D. Arney

CJCD is a peer-reviewed publication of multi-sectoral career-related academic research and best practices from Canada and around the world. Submissions are open to articles that are Canadian and international in scope and deal with career development in its broadest sense. In addition to peer-reviewed Articles on completed research from faculty and graduate students, publication categories also include Research-In-Motion, Graduate Student Research Briefs, Practitioners & Community Best Practices and Book Reviews.

The journal is a partnership between CERIC and Memorial University of Newfoundland with the support of The Counselling Foundation of Canada as well as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. CJCD continues to publish twice a year in a digital format. It is free to subscribe and all issues of the open-access journal dating back to 2002 are available online.