F08 – Features

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.

By Sherry Knight

Wow! You’ve just been asked to make a presentation on Career Development. It’s exciting! It’s the first time anyone has asked you to make a formal presentation to a group of people.

By Christine Gertz

If so few people blog or read blogs, is it important to blog? Will you or your organization get any benefit out of blogging? If you read Robert Bly, the author of Blog Schmog, there is little or no monetary benefit to blogging just lots of aggravation. So why would anyone want to blog?

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).

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.

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.

By Heather McGregor

UBC Faculty of Education is pleased to offer an M.Ed. in Counselling Psychology with a focus onVocational Rehabilitation Counselling , beginning in September 2009. Would you like to: