F10 – Features

ContactPoint has three great bloggers that regularly post information, resources and commentary on career development issues. If you haven’t already checked them out, be sure to do so!

by Beth Spooner

With the decline of many traditional occupations and emergence of new technologies, job-seekers may start to include social media tools like Twitter in their job search.  As I spent several months researching and designing a Twitter Initiative for Training Innovations integrating social media with traditional job search strategies, it became evident that Twitter is an innovative solution to current employment challenges.

by Karen Girard

Are you on Facebook?  Twitter?  How about LinkedIn?  Do you participate in social networking?  Lots of us play around on them, but many of my colleagues say they are not interested, so haven’t even bothered checking them out.

by Tricia Bowler-Archambault

Over the past few months my colleagues have been teasing me about turning into a “techie”.  Our employment centre has developed curriculum for clients to utilize LinkedIn in their job research, we include hyperlinks to previous employers’ websites in resumes, we started a FaceBook Page as an introduction to blogging and are building our About Us page with staff LinkedIn profiles.  We use Google Calendar to manage our staff schedules and we use shared workspaces to control department documents.

by Debi Saul

An Executive Summary

CONNECT Strategic Alliances, representing Ontario’s 24 publicly funded colleges, has been funded by HRSDC-OLES for a three-year initiative seeking to improve employability by providing tools to identify the Literacy and Essential Skills of un- or underemployed Canadians, in an effort to obtain employment or to increase their prospects.

by Jaz Bruhn 

Author: Donna Dunning
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2010
ISBN: 978-1-85788-542-2

Bah! Bah! Bah! Please tell me this is not just another book about the Myers-Briggs personality type.This is what I thought as I did my first skim of Ms. Dunning’s latest book. Not a very open minded approach, I agree

By Lauri Mills

I am currently a graduate student working on my thesis in the area of creativity in career counselling, specifically the experience of career counselling professionals in using creativity with clients.