The Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling

Did you know…

There is a Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling – CERIC? This national organization was established in December 2001 and has entered into long term partnership agreements with The Canadian Journal of Career Development and Contact Point. The Institute is presently negotiating its first research grants.

To hear more about the Institute and its work, stay tuned to Contact Point, The Canadian Journal of Career Development and events in the career counselling community.

 

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The Loss of a Professional Home and the Search for Career Adaptability: The Disequilibrium of Immigration

By Lorraine Godden

In July 2009, my family and I immigrated to Canada from England. As a woman in my forties, I had built a career in education in England where I felt I was making a useful contribution to society. My skills and experience were, it seemed, of value, and I had a sense of belonging within my professional environment. I felt I had achieved a professional home. Throughout the planning stages of immigration I looked forward with anticipation to the experience of working in a new, different educational milieu. One where I could use my existing expertise, embrace new challenges, and find an even greater sense of professional fulfillment. I greatly misjudged that in moving across the Atlantic; my professional home would be left behind.

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The Leap to Self-Employment

By Miranda Vande Kuyt

Understanding self-employment is more important than ever. Over 2.5 million Canadians are self-employed, making up over 15% of the Canadian workforce1 and the number keeps growing. As large as those numbers are, very few career practitioners understand what it takes to be successfully self-employed. Most career practitioners work within government-funded programs, 2 and for many, self-employment is not on their radar, for themselves or their clients.

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Feature: Interview with Dr. Mark Savickas

By Tami Anderson

Mark Savickas, Ph.D., is professor of Behavioral Sciences at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Adjunct Professor of Counselor Education at Kent State University and Professor Extraordinaire at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. His 80 articles, 40 book chapters and 500 presentations to professional groups have dealt with vocational behaviour and career counselling.Hear Mark Savickas’ keynote address, The Career Counsellor’s Career: From Preoccupation to Occupation, on January 24, 2012 at 8:30 AM.

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Career Pathways for Refugee Youth

By Bertha Mo

Refugee youth face not only the normal upheavals of adolescence, but also deal with pre-migration trauma, including war and other types of violence, family dislocation and lack of consistent education. In addition, newcomer youth may be re-victimized and susceptible to racial discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment upon their arrival in Canada. Isolated, poorly integrated youth often drop out of school and become prey to local gang recruitment.

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Corporate Canada: Invite Them to Our Education Party

By Suzanne Tyson

Having presented at, attended or sponsored dozens of conferences related to higher education over the past three years in my role as President of Studentawards Inc., there seems to be one constituent consistently underrepresented, or outright absent from the proceedings – Corporate Canada. At these conferences, students are gnashing their teeth about the cost of getting an education (the tuition isn’t the problem for undergrads, it’s the high cost of living), their high debt loads and their lack of job prospects; government program administrators are pulling their hair out because they can’t seem to create awareness of all the money that is available to fund those in financial need, and educators are coming to terms with students who may be Digital Natives, but are Financial Naives (not to mention the product of the Helicopter Parent).

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The Forces and Shifts at Work

By Donald Smith

“What’s the ‘So What’ for You?”

Every time we round a corner on the future of work, the changes in the road come up to meet us faster and faster. The curves get steeper and our need to adapt gets more critical. What are the shifts required for success for career practitioners, for individuals and for organizations?

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