Toronto, ON – January 19, 2006 – According to a new Ipsos Reid survey conducted on behalf of the Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling (CERIC), if Canadians were to start again to plan their career or work-life, two-thirds (65%) would try to get more career planning or job information than they did initially. « The survey also found that one in ten (8%) Canadians have required assistance in making career plans or in selecting, changing, or getting a job. over the past year, » said Robert Shea, CERIC’s president, and director of Memorial University’s Career and Experiential Learning department, St. John’s, Newfoundland. Added Shea, « And among those who received career planning assistance in the past year, while a good majority of seven in ten (71%) say that is was useful, a substantial minority (27%) feel it was not. »…