Career Development in Organizations: A Lost or an Emerging Opportunity?
By Deirdre A. Pickerell and Roberta A. Neault Key insights for career professionals who want to get involved in corporate career development
New Programs and Initiatives
By Deirdre Pickerell, MEd, CHRP Career Management Professional Program A new program designed to be the “next phase” in professional development for career/employment counsellors, career practitioners and/or practitioners in related fields. Offered in partnership between Life Strategies Ltd. and Access Institute of Training and Development (A division of Access Employment Services Ltd.), our goal is…
What’s the Real Problem with “Balance”? It’s Not Sustainable
By Dr. Roberta Neault and Deirdre Pickerell There are thousands of websites, blogs, and articles offering tips for finding balance. Canadians are working longer hours (23% more than ten years ago) and the inability to balance work and family costs Canadian employers about $10 billion dollars per year. Although such statistics highlight a problem with balance,…
Canada’s career development profession – on the cusp of greatness
We must come together as a sector to leverage the unique momentum driving our work today Deirdre Pickerell “Never before in human history has career guidance been more important” – Anthony Mann, OECD (Educaweb, 2020) From where I sit, with 30 years working in career and employment services / workforce development, the future is bright.…
What you measure matters … but your mindset matters more
It’s time to move beyond funder-imposed metrics of success and take ownership of our story of positive impact Deirdre Pickerell, Sareena Hopkins and Lynne Bezanson Over the past 30 years, and counting, career development professionals (CDPs), their managers and employers, along with various funders, have hotly debated the data that demonstrate the need for services…
Spring 2012
This Issue’s Theme: Spring into Fresh Ideas! Spring into a New Career by Deirdre A. Pickerell What Jargon Means: The Career Practitioner’s Web Analytics Tip Sheet by John Horn Working with Musical Clients? Remember to look at transferable skills! by Jan Bottomer A View of Cannexus12 through…
Spring 2012
This Issue’s Theme: Spring into Fresh Ideas! Spring into a New Career by Deirdre A. Pickerell What Jargon Means: The Career Practitioner’s Web Analytics Tip Sheet by John Horn Working with Musical Clients? Remember to look at transferable skills! by Jan Bottomer A View of Cannexus12 through the Eyes of Rich Feller by Rich Feller Ph.D. Other Points of Interest: Career…
Spring-Summer issue of Careering explores corporate career development
The theme of the Spring-Summer 2015 issue of Careering magazine is “Career Development in Organizations” and is full of articles exploring career issues in the corporate world: Corporate Career Development: Art Meets Science, by Bill Huffaker Career Development in Organizations: A Lost or an Emerging Opportunity? by Deirdre A. Pickerell and Roberta A. Neault When…
Conference Sketch
By Roberta Neault Talking in Colour 2003 Western Canada’s Personality DimensionsTM/True ColorsTM Networking Conference The 3rd Annual Conference for True ColorsTM and, now, Personality DimensionsTM facilitators was held on September 20 in Port Coquitlam, BC, co-sponsored by Life Strategies Ltd. and Terry Fox Secondary School. Conference participants were very eager to learn about the new,…
Making career development ‘stick’ in K-12
The career development gap in schools can only be bridged by prioritizing and scaling programming Adriano Magnifico I grew up with superheroes. I loved their superpowers – Superman leaping tall buildings in a single bound or the Torch igniting into a flaming comet. I always had a soft spot for Spiderman, who could spew silk…