The winners of CERIC’s National Challenge to Promote Career Development were announced on January 6, 2014.
Natacha Courchesne, from the Université de Sherbrooke, was one of the winners. Her idea involved recruiting well-known individuals to star in video clips in which they talk about significant experiences where using a career development service made the difference for them.
JANUARY 20-22, 2014
Ottawa, ON, CANADA
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By Lynn Sadlowski
A youth’s toolbag of essential life skills for transitioning from high school to post-secondary education to the workplaceBook by Sandra Finkelstein
By Anne-Marie Rolfe
This lively, colourful book encourages the reader to think outside the box when it comes to creating work inside the reality of our new economy. The author makes the case early on that our economy has changed and relying on the traditional job search is simply no longer a viable option for many long-term jobseekers. While the book is targeted to those who may have given up on the traditional job search, it presents great ideas that would be helpful to those with an entrepreneurial spirit.
My Career Info is a new initiative from the Council of Ontario Universities that provides career planning guidance to students, new grads and entry-level jobseekers.
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By Don Presant
The Internet has had a big impact on career development and employment. In your work, you are probably starting to answer a lot of questions about the advisability and best practices for using ePortfolios, or similar solutions under different labels: online resumes, web CVs, personal career websites, video resumes, LinkedIn profiles, etc. This article, based on our experience with Career Portfolio Manitoba, should provide you with a useful framework for considering the available alternatives.
By Heather Powell
Career practitioners spend the majority of their time guiding clients through the transitions and challenges that come with unemployment: the emotional ups-and-downs that hit the ego when losing a job, creating job search materials, preparing for interviews, being rejected from opportunities or never hearing back at all. We provide words of comfort and guidance when faced with statements like, “I just wish I was still working. Everything would be fine if it wasn’t for the company closing,” or “I don’t know why they let me go. It’s not fair, I worked so hard,” and of course, “I feel like I am too old/overqualified/under-qualified to find a new job. No one wants me!” We respond by reaching into our toolbox of counselling techniques and provide support, positive feedback and suggestions. We tell them, “You can’t change the labour market, you can only adapt.”
In celebration of the Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling’s (CERIC) 10th anniversary in 2014, The Counselling Foundation of Canada has provided a grant to facilitate an online competition to increase the recognition of the value of career counselling as well as career development professionals in Canada.
OCTOBER 17-18, 2013
Denver, CO, UNITED STATES
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As a not-for-profit employer in downtown Toronto, we cannot find enough experienced and trained career/employment counsellors or job developers. Our mission as an organization is to help thousands of disadvantaged youth to find jobs each year.
