Spring 2011

What’s New – Updates and Information from ContactPoint and CERIC

This Issue’s Theme: Career Advancement

• Career Advancement: Do You Know How to Get Ahead? Most Canadians Don’t from CERIC
  
• Steer Your Career: Eight Strategies to Promotion by Darlene Foster
• Broadening Our Sense of Career Advancement by Kathy Johnson
• Are the Voices in My Head Hindering My Career Advancement? Exploration of Cognitive Scripts and Career Identity by Sonny K. H. Wong
• One Stride Closer: Psychological Considerations of the Immigrant Career Transition by Basak Yanar
• The Excitement of the Journey! One Recruiter’s Transition to Canada by Tibisay Bermudez
• Career Practitioner Supervision Training: For Your Current or Prospective Role by Cheri Butler

Other Points of Interest:

• Sector Specific Approach to Job Development for Foreign Trained Professionals by Habib Ullah
• Green Jobs for Canadians by Khaled Islaih
• Gameworks: Engaging Youth-at-Risk in Career Development by Madelaine Currelly
• The Counselling Arabia Conference: Recognizing the Needs of Arab Youth in Today’s Modern World by Jessica Lawrence

Regular Features:

• Conference Sketch: Cannexus 2011 by Maija Wiik
• Continuing the Conversation: Control, Opportunity & Leadership: A Study of Employee Engagement in the Canadian Workplaceby Shawn Bakker
  (following from our Winter 2011 issue on “The Balancing Act”)
• New Programs and Initiatives: Professional Skills Development for International Students by Lynn Walsh and Jennifer White
• Research: Retirement Re-Visited by Juanita Hennessey
• Research: Social Workers and Non-Traditional Careers: Making the Links by Marlene Pomrenke and Heather Morris
• Upcoming Events
• Hot Links: on Career Advancement

The Summer 2011 issue of The Bulletin: Serving Rural Communities
Submission deadline: May 16

The Fall 2011 issue of The Bulletin: Parents’ Role in Career Planning
Submission deadline: September 14

To submit an article, please note our submission guidelines and send your article to: paula@ceric.ca

Views expressed by contributors are not necessarily those of ContactPoint and CERIC. Mention of programs, services, products and initiatives is not an endorsement of these items.

ContactPoint is a program of CERIC and supported by The Counselling Foundation of Canada.