Name: Danni Lei Organization: University of Calgary (Calgary, AB) Summary: ‘Keeping “APP” With Careers’ will provide a bilingual, mobile, and networking career service for all Canadians. Accessible to urban/rural areas; includes a website and free downloadable application that provides users with weekly updates, monitored…

  Name: Isabel  Dimitrov Organization: Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University (Toronto, ON)    Summary: “Bridging the Career Gap” would provide a roadmap for a more active role for Career Service Professionals in secondary schools. The crux of this would be supplementing a province’s…

  Name:   Tina Strehlke Organization:  Training Innovations Inc. (Port Moody, BC) Summary:  Create a website that helps Canadians learn about career development: what it is, why it matters and how they can get help with their career and learning choices. The site will be in…

Name: Charlene Taylor Organization: Employment Expertise & Consulting (Markham, ON) Summary: Currently, students are asked to complete career exploration at the grade ten level and these ideas, themes, and goals are to translate into their last year of high school where they may or may…

Name: Robert Shewchuk Organization: Start Smart Careers (Winnipeg, MB) Summary: Career practitioners need to make career planning as mainstream as financial planning. If the financial industry can sell Canadians on the benefits of investing in RSP’s, we can sell the benefits of making informed career…

Name: Juliana Wiens Organization: Women’s Employment Outreach (Halifax, NS) Summary: To increase awareness of career development, it is important to create tools that simultaneously pique the curiousity of working-age Canadians, and guide them toward career services. I propose creating an interactive website that helps individuals…

Name: Carol Weiman and Susan Reiter Organization: Ministry of the Economy (Humboldt, SK) Summary: The trade sector dominates Saskatchewan’s job market. Just recently, the region’s school division has cut funding for career development and discontinued their work experience program for high school students. This is…

Name: Dave Redekopp Organization: Life-Role Development Group Ltd. (Edmonton, AB) Summary: Imagine meeting rooms across Canada filled with people from all communities coming together to talk with each other about their career development! Starting at 5 p.m. PT across the country, thousands of participants are…

Name:  Emil Boychuk Organization:  Career Life Energy Consulting/Association of Career Educators (Toronto, ON) Summary:  Get The Good Job is a reality TV show about people who just can’t seem to land a job. They get career counselling for suitable employment. In each episode, we meet…

Name:  Carron McCabe Organization: Self Employed EAP Career Counsellor with Morneau Shepell (Charlottetown, PEI) Summary:  An 8 week group counselling program where participants will learn the fundamentals of Hoop Dance followed by Goal Setting and Action Planning sessions. Hoop Dance will be our avenue to…