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…
By Deirdre Pickerell and Roberta Neault The career development field needs to build resiliency within the sector in order to address disengagement, apathy, burnout and feelings of underutilization
Model offers framework to spot warning signs of disengagement and get back on track Roberta Borgen (Neault) and Deirdre Pickerell Pivoting – changing direction by turning in place – takes balance and resilience. Not all career transitions require pivots; sometimes career trajectories continue in the same direction after major or minor disruptions. Pivots are different.…
By Deirdre Pickerell and Dr. Roberta Neault Career Management Professionals (CMPs) can often be found delivering their services within government funded community-based agencies. The mandate of these agencies is typically to support unemployed Canadians as they identify career options, develop job search skills, and strengthen their ability to maintain employment.
by Roberta Neault, PhD, and Deirdre Pickerell, MEd In an increasingly global workplace, more of our working relationships are entirely online.
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,…
By Roberta Neault and Miranda Vande Kuyt Counselling and coaching, even in the traditional face-to-face format, are relatively new “professions.” e-Anything is even newer—it’s not that many years ago that text messaging, emails, Skype and online banking did not exist. As counselling has expanded, and technologies have continued to develop, a moment in history, when…
