CERIC will fund a Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC) project that will identify the impact of career education on high school students’ post-secondary choices and workforce outcomes, with the goal of improving the quality of youth career decision-making. The project will use two unique sources of longitudinal data created to test career interventions through…
If you are a full-time graduate student whose academic focus is career development or a faculty member working with full-time grad students in career counselling or a related field, then you want to know about the CERIC Graduate Student Engagement Program (GSEP). Applications for 2019 are due by Friday, March 29. CERIC encourages engagement of…
More than 1,200 delegates from across the country and beyond converged in Ottawa from January 28-30 for the Cannexus19 National Career Development Conference, exploring the disruption that is changing how we define work, find jobs, develop skills and succeed in the labour market. Conference highlights included: Three thought-provoking keynote speakers: MacEwan University President Deborah Saucier…
With the future workplace demanding more Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) skills, what should we consider in current educational pathways and employment counselling? This Winter 2019 issue of CERIC’s Careering magazine examines this theme with thought-provoking articles on labour market outcomes, diversity and career exploration in STEM. Articles in this issue: Fostering career agility…
With the changing nature of work and labour markets, effective workforce development strategies are increasingly viewed as pivotal to identifying emerging skill needs and supporting economic growth. CERIC’s new literature search, Workforce Development, highlights important implications for how career services professionals can better prepare their clients in adapting to the future workplace. Topics covered in…
The newest edition of the Canadian Journal of Career Development (CJCD) has just been published, with five articles that range from the vocational needs of adolescents with learning disabilities to a model for how employers might “convert” co-op employees to full-time hires to a new theoretical framework for understanding social anxiety in career development. Articles…
In recognition of her contribution to the growth of career development, not only in Canada but around the world, Dr Roberta Neault was honoured with CERIC’s Etta St John Wileman Award on January 29 in Ottawa at the Cannexus19 National Career Development Conference, attended by close to 1,300 of her peers. The award celebrates leaders…
Expected to inform the practice of career development professionals around the globe, CERIC’s new Career Theories and Models at Work book is launching today at the Cannexus conference and available for purchase online now. This international collection, edited by Nancy Arthur (University of Calgary), Roberta Neault (Life Strategies) and Mary McMahon (University of Queensland) features…
Dr Jan Stewart will be presenting on “Addressing the needs of refugee students: Building trauma-sensitive schools and supportive classrooms” at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg on Thursday, March 7. The presentation will be livestreamed in Toronto from 5:30- 8:30 pm ET at CERIC’s office in partnership with the Ontario and Manitoba affiliates…
Ottawa, Jan. 16, 2019 – There is a new work order and 1,200 career development professionals from across the country will converge in Ottawa from Jan. 28-30 to tackle how to help Canadians navigate it. The largest conference of its kind in Canada, Cannexus 2019 will explore the disruption that is changing how we define…
