The Bulletin Archives

Mentoring Internationally Trained Counsellors to Serve Newcomers

September 9, 2012By Norman Valdez0 comment

by Shelly D’Mello

The Counselling Foundation of Canada provided a multi-year grant to The Mennonite New Life Centre of Toronto (MNLCT) in April, 2009 to support its Mentoring Internationally Trained Counsellors program. The MNLCT sought this funding, in part, to promote the dissemination and replication of an existing model for mentoring internationally trained counsellors. The end goal is to increase the number of practicing counselling professionals with language and cultural proficiency to effectively serve newcomers to Ontario.

Job vs. Work: The Trend Toward Nontraditional Employment is Putting a New Spin on Conventional Careers

September 1, 2012By Norman Valdez0 comment

By Ron McGowan

When we look at how the majority of people earn a living, the 20th Century, in retrospect, was the century of the full-time, permanent job. The 21st Century, for an increasing number of people, will be the century of self-employment.

Recent figures show that, depending on the industry sector, 25 to 40 percent of the workforce is employed in nontraditional roles – as temps, part-timers, contract workers or self-employed consultants. And their numbers are growing.

NCDA Conference: 100 Years of Inspiring Careers and Empowering Lives

September 1, 2012By Norman Valdez0 comment

By Bobbi Carter

“Best Conference I’ve been to!” If you joined us for the 2012 National Career Development Association’s Global Career Development Conference you’d probably agree. The 2012 NCDA Global Career Conference was held in Atlanta, GA, with record-breaking attendance numbers. We are anticipating the 2013 Conference in Boston to be no less – after all, it is our 100^th year anniversary.

Teaching and Learning Career Development Practice: Students’ Perspective of Blended Learning

September 1, 2012By Norman Valdez0 comment

By Cheryl Jeffs

Abstract

This research investigated a blended learning format in a career development practice (CDP) program. The primary focus of this study was adult students’ perspectives of and experiences in a blended learning course, compared to traditional courses (face-to-face). Overall, the blended learning format appears beneficial to the students’ learning and development.

Career Cruising in Cyberspace

September 1, 2012By Norman Valdez0 comment

By Phil Jarvis

Toronto-based Career Cruising has been in cyberspace since 1998 with tools to help career practitioners help their clients. Our cloud-based resources are accessed daily by thousands of career professionals and tens of thousands of students and clients in over 20,000 educational institutions, libraries and employment centres. We see our primary mission as engaging and inspiring our users to become intentional and purposeful in constructing their preferred future.

The Ethics of e-Counselling

September 1, 2012By Norman Valdez0 comment

By Roberta Neault and Miranda Vande Kuyt

Counselling and coaching, even in the traditional face-to-face format, are relatively new “professions.” e-Anything is even newer—it’s not that many years ago that text messaging, emails, Skype and online banking did not exist. As counselling has expanded, and technologies have continued to develop, a moment in history, when what was previously inconceivable is already being done, has arrived. However, just because something is do-able or because someone else is doing it, doesn’t make it right. It’s important to consider the ethics of e-counselling and e-coaching.

Perseverance is the Key to Success

September 1, 2012By Norman Valdez0 comment

By Louisa Jewell

I have been studying positive psychology for almost eight years now and I have determined that the key to success is perseverance. Often times we only hear about highly successful people after they have become successful so we are unaware of their struggles to the top. For example, Donald Trump has filed for bankruptcy four times and it would take Shania Twain 18 years of singing in some pretty shady bars before releasing her first album. Researchers are starting to determine it is not talent or IQ or an Ivy-league school that guarantees success; it’s grit.

Transformational Technology – Designing Interactive Online Career Development Services

September 1, 2012By Norman Valdez0 comment

By Tannis Goddard

Technology offers the potential to transform the way we deliver career development services. Rather than fearing that technology will replace face-to-face services, we have the opportunity to consider the transformative communication capabilities of new technologies and how these can expand the horizons and reach of our services.

Five Steps to Career Change Success: Lessons Learned in Tashiya Stewart’s Transition from Auditing to Graphic Design

September 1, 2012By Norman Valdez0 comment

By Christelle Agboka

In today’s work world, career change has become the new normal. While the reasons behind this are often involuntary (e.g., unemployment, lack of stability or low wages), voluntary career change is on the rise as people seek more challenge, satisfaction or balance from their work.

Career Counselling in a Digital World

September 1, 2012By Norman Valdez0 comment

By Lawrence Murphy and Dawn Schell

A recent international research report, commissioned by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, suggests that “changes in technology have the potential to increase the efficiency of service delivery within the career support market, to enhance existing services, and to develop new paradigms of career support”.¹ This report cites a plethora of research supporting the idea that the whole range of career services can be effectively offered in an online format.