Getting the Story Out: Storytelling in Job Search Workshops
By David William McKay
Engage Employers to Get Youth Jobs
By Joanne Kviring
Employment programs that work with employers are the best way to ensure youth have in-demand skills and experience to succeed in the job market
Career Briefs
Help for military to civilian transitions
The Military to Civilian Employment: A Career Practitioner’s Guide is now available, having launched at the Cannexus16 National Career Development Conference. An average of 5,000 Armed Forces personnel exits the military each year, many of whom seek to use their unique skill set in the civilian labour market. The guide will equip career professionals with what they need to know to assist veterans.
[Careers in Focus] Targeting In-Demand Careers: A Case Study of Toronto’s Financial Services Sector
By Kamini Sahadeo
Advising jobseekers on careers in financial services begins with an understanding of the sector’s business lines, areas of high demand and being able to match jobseekers’ soft and technical skills to the needs of the employer
Competency Credentials with Open Badges: The New Language for Workplace Skills
By Don Presant
Open badges allow jobseekers to communicate competencies to employers and educational institutions across national boundaries and life transitions
Editor’s note
By Catherine Ducharme
Working in the career development sector, we face an odd situation. Our clients with post-secondary education have a lower unemployment rate and they tend to earn more over the span of their careers. However, we also know people rarely stay their whole life in the same kind of work, and often end up in careers that have little connection with their degree. So why do their degrees matter?
Career Briefs
Cannexus National Career Development Conference turns 10
From January 25-27, 2016 CERIC will host the Cannexus 10th anniversary conference in Ottawa. Canada’s largest bilingual National Career Development Conference, Cannexus explores innovative approaches in career counselling and career development. Cannexus16 is expected to welcome 800 professionals from education, community, government and private sectors.
Canadian Experience Means Soft Skills
By Susan Denommee and Susan Liu Woronko
For newcomers looking for work in Canada, soft skills are just as important, if not more, than credentials and experience
Canada’s Trucking Industry: Careers for People with Drive!
By Angela Splinter
The Conference Board of Canada projects a shortage of positions, including 25,000 to 30,000 drivers, within the trucking industry by 2020
10 Questions for Ratna Omidvar
Ratna Omidvar is the founding Executive Director of the Global Diversity Exchange (GDX) at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University and is currently Director of the Centre for Mental Health and Addiction (CAMH), The Environics Institute and Samara. She is Chair of Lifeline Syria, Chair Emerita of the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council and Co-Chair of DiverseCity: the Greater Toronto Leadership Project. Omidvar is an internationally recognized expert, speaker and commentator on migration, diversity, integration and inclusion.
Omidvar will be a keynote speaker at the Cannexus16 National Career Development Conference in Ottawa in January.