By Gisela Theurer and Roberta Neault Jennifer works in an agency that provides employment services to individuals with disabilities1 . One of her colleagues, Margaret, has been struggling with her workload and the stress of the job, and is occasionally very abrupt and impatient with clients. Jennifer observes this behaviour, and tries to talk to…
Beyond the Basics: Real World Skills for Career Practitioner By Roberta Neault, Ph.D., CCC, RRP Life Strategies Ltd., 2001 available online from www.lifestrategies.ca or by phone (toll-free) at 1-866-681-2211. Review by Victoria Morris-Ott, BA, MEd, RRP The word guide has three specific meanings: to guide(v), as to direct; a guide(n) as a leader; or, the guide (n), as in a handbook. In…
Examining the ethical codes that guide Canadian career professionals and how to navigate ethical dilemmas in practice Cassie Taylor and Roberta Neault As career development is not yet a regulated profession outside of Quebec, formal career development training is not mandated throughout most of Canada, nor does it abide by a specific ethical code. With…
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,…
By Roberta Neault Who works across borders and why? A primer What do you think of when you hear about international or global careers? Most Canadian career practitioners probably picture Canadians working abroad, typically as expatriates or humanitarians, or individuals who have permanently immigrated to Canada. It’s harder for us to conceptualize Canada as a…
CERIC will fund the development of a new international collection, Career Theories and Models at Work: Ideas for Practice, to be edited by Dr Nancy Arthur (University of Calgary), Dr Roberta Neault (Life Strategies) and Dr Mary McMahon (The University of Queensland, Australia). The goal of the project is to provide career practitioners with training…
Career Theories and Models at Work: Ideas for Practice, edited by Nancy Arthur (University of South Australia), Roberta Neault (Life Strategies) and Mary McMahon (University of Queensland) and published by CERIC, has gained popularity across Canada and beyond, generating interest from career development professors, researchers and practitioners around the world. For the past few months,…
Last year, CERIC offered two series of free webinars based on its book Career Theories and Models at Work: Ideas for Practice, co-edited by Nancy Arthur, Roberta Neault and Mary McMahon. Following the popularity of these learning opportunities, we are continuing to invite more contributing authors to highlight their career development theories through free webinars starting in…
Author: Roberta A. Neault (Life Strategies Ltd.)
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…
