With a goal of bringing greater clarity and consistency to our national conversations about career development, CERIC has developed a set of “Guiding Principles of Career Development.” These Guiding Principles reflect multiple voices at CERIC and underpin its vision to increase the economic and social wealth of Canadians through career counselling and career education. They…
By Francine Taitt Human interaction is never easy and flawless. Even the best relationships develop tensions and unpleasant emotions. Little wonder that within an organization, with its diverse personalities, that there is abuse and misuse of power, which can be translated into workplace bullying. What is workplace bullying? Workplace bullying is behaviour that intimidates, degrades,…
By Julia Lebedeva Joel A. Garfinkle, Getting Ahead: Three Steps to Take Your Career to the Next Level (Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, c2011) This book focuses on three of the four building blocks of success – perception, visibility and influence (PVI). The use of three items is connected to the title, Three Steps to Take Your…
Transformative workplaces are those that make us better as human beings living lives of greater purpose and passion at the same time as accomplishing the goals of the organization and addressing the needs of the larger society. This is the focus of CERIC’s newest literature search.
By Philip D. Gardner Tips for students, career professionals, employers and faculty on how to respond to disruption
By Roberta Neault Do you remember Art Linkletter (Linkletter & Schultz, 2005) and his “Kids say the darndest things” television segments? Similarly, career practitioners hear the darndest things – some sad, some funny, and some completely outrageous. Without an outlet for those stories, career practitioners may keep them bottled up. Similar to the pressure cooker…
An understanding of one’s needs at work, and how these may differ across individuals, may help foster more positive working relationships K. Jessica Van Vliet and José F. Domene At its core, most types of work involve interpersonal relationships. How people relate to their co-workers may reflect patterns of interpersonal relating that show up in…
Self-knowledge, goal setting and preparation can help clients increase their resiliency Nancy Curtis A pertinent issue both a career practitioner and jobseeker can face during transition is maintaining a career mindset. Change is inevitable and a part of daily life, but COVID–19 has presented a unique set of challenges that require a strong career mindset…
CERIC, along with its partner associations, will be offering a variety of webinar series in the next few months to support the career development community on a range of timely topics. Take a look at our comprehensive list – and take advantage of the Zoom AI-generated live captions available in multiple languages, including English and French…
