Conference Sketch

By Anne Markey, CACEE

CACEE 2008 National On-Campus Recruitment Conference, June 1-4, 2008

Over 300 delegates joined together in Montreal June 1-4, 2008, to learn from more than forty-five sessions focusing on the post-secondary school to career transition. Despite the damp weather, golfers, walkers and shoppers enjoyed the pre conference social activities.

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Tools to Support Group Facilitation

By Roberta Neault, PhD, Cassie Saunders, BA, and Fiona Glendinning, BA, Life Strategies Ltd.

It can be tempting for career practitioners and counsellors working with groups to find a comfortable style and stick with it. However, adding new activities, resources, and techniques to your toolkits can help to keep both you and your group members interested and engaged. Here are a few that the Life Strategies team finds particularly helpful, with information about where to order them. If you’re looking for professional development as a group facilitator, we’ve added a few opportunities here as well.

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Stories of Transition: What Happens in the Decade after High School?

By Cathy Campbell

There is no doubt that young people today face what has been described as a complex and circuitous transition into the workforce (Bowlby & McMullen, 2002). Compared to previous generations, they are faced with higher expectations (Andres, 2002), more choices (Schwartz, 2004), and the requirements for more post-secondary education that is becoming increasingly expensive (Berger, Motte & Parkin, 2007). Perhaps worst of all, there are no guarantees that a good job awaits a young person who has invested a lot of time and money into post-secondary education (Côté & Allahar, 2007).

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The Renovated Virtual Classroom: Adult Education Through Online Learning

By Joanne Elliott

In many professions, on-going professional development is critical to updating and improving existing skills, keeping up with new information, and also keeping one’s certification current. Indeed, there are many ways to approach professional development: workshops, continuing education courses, in-house presentations, and conferences. Much professional development is through in-person situations, but more opportunities are available through on-line means. With busy lives and full-time work, online professional development is increasingly attractive for working adults, especially as technology steadily improves, and further reaches into remote communities.

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Upcoming Events

Upcoming Canadian Events

ATA Guidance Council Conference 2008, , Banff Park Lodge, Banff, AB. Nov 20 – 22, 2008.
www.guidancecouncil.ca

Career Education Society of BC – CES 31st Annual Fall Conference, Vancouver, BC. Nov 20 – 21, 2008.
www.ces.bc.ca/

NATCON 2009: National Consultation on Career Development and Workforce Learning, Toronto, ON. Jan 19 – 21, 2009.

Internationally Educated Professionals (IEPs) Conference 2009, Toronto, ON. Feb 20, 2009.
www.iep.ca

 

Upcoming International Events

2008 AUSTRALASIAN FACILITATORS NETWORK (AFN) CONFERENCE: Pushing the Boundaries: Facilitation Frontiers, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, Nov. 26 – 28, 2008.

The 4th Annual MPACE Conference: Ride the Wave To Success!, San Diego, California, Dec 10 – 12, 2008.
www.mpace.org/

Center on Education and Work’s Careers Conference 2009: From Inspiration to Application, Madison, Wisconsin, Jan 26 – 28, 2009.
www.cew.wisc.edu/

Upcoming Deadlines

Early Bird Registration: Nov. 14, 2008, CANNEXUS 2009 National Career Development Conference, Toronto, Canada (April 6-8, 2009)
www.cannexus.ca

Call for Proposals: Nov. 28, 2008 , Building Tomorrow Today 2009: From Good…to Great – Best Practices in Career Development
www.careerdevelopment.ab.ca/

Call for Proposals: Nov. 30, 2008 , International IAEVG Conference 2009: Coherence, Co-operation and Quality in Guidance and Counselling, Jyväskylä, Finland
ktl.jyu.fi/ktl/iaevg2009fin

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