2022

Toolkit showcases 10 ways employers can partner with career professionals to address talent needs

Today’s tight labour market requires new approaches and flexibility to attract talent with shifting jobseeker and employee expectations. A new toolkit from CERIC highlights 10 ways that career development professionals (CDPs) can partner with employers to meet their recruitment, retention and training needs. The toolkit was created by the CDPs who work with employers every day within their communities.

It is a compilation reflecting input from more than 100 CDPs with advice for helping to mobilize local labour markets. This resource is the result of Virtual Community Roundtables with career development professionals held this past June. Organized by CERIC, the roundtables were hosted in partnership with two provincial career development associations, ASPECT BC and the Ontario Association of Career Management.

During these roundtables, CDPs discussed with their peers the results of CERIC’s Environics National Business Survey of 500 Canadian employers released earlier this year. Discussions focused on five themes: Challenges for Canadian Businesses, Recruitment, Skills Gap, Soft Skills and Professional / Career Development.

The toolkit that emerged is intended to be a brief resource that conveys the most impactful approaches for CDPs to work with employers. Some of the 10 ways to partner range from #4 Find Untapped Talent Through Non-Traditional Hiring to #9 Focus on Employee Retention, Engagement and Wellness. CDPs can use this document to identify new or enhanced ways to support employers or can share it directly with employers.

The goal is to provide ideas and a tool to raise employer awareness of the value of career development and the role and services of career development professionals. The National Business Survey showed that while 53% of employers are aware of CDPs, only 12% have worked with one in the past.

Recognizing that the role and services vary by type of CDP, organization and sector (e.g., post-secondary institution vs. community agency vs. private practice), this document aims to be as inclusive and flexible as possible. Anyone is welcome to use or modify the content as part of their communications materials.

Building on this work, CERIC will host two more Virtual Community Roundtables this fall with the Career Development Association of Alberta (registration now open for the Nov. 2 Alberta roundtable) and with Ordre des conseillers et conseillères d’orientation du Québec (OCCOQ) (to be held Dec. 1 in Quebec.) The roundtables will continue this important conversation on employer engagement and the contribution of CDPs to workforce and workplace strategies. The employer toolkit will be updated to incorporate additional insights from CDPs in these other provinces.

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2022

Explore the 150+ sessions: Program now available for hybrid Cannexus23 conference

The Cannexus23 hybrid program has now been released for both the virtual edition and Ottawa-based in-person version of Canada’s largest Career Development Conference, taking place Jan. 23-25, 2023. The program includes more than 150 sessions that will keep participants current with the latest knowledge, skills and tools as well as help to sustain resilience after more than two years of the “new normal.”

Cannexus brings together professionals across the career and workforce development ecosystem to explore research, policy and practice. The conference will continue to reimagine the impact of career development on education, the economy and social justice as pandemic recovery unfolds. In the past, in-person Cannexus conferences have drawn more than 1,200 delegates to convene, share and learn, and the virtual conference has attracted more than 2,300 participants.

Incredible keynotes will inspire delegates: Indigenous diversity expert Dr. James Makokis, economist and futurist Linda Nazareth and Tareq Hadhad, the Syrian refugee and entrepreneur who founded Peace by Chocolate. Featuring top researchers, practitioners and thought leaders from across Canada and around the world (Candy Ho, Dr. Ken Keis, Gray Poehnell, Rich Feller, Sareena Hopkins, Lisa Taylor, Kris Magnusson, Sarah Delicate, Tannis Goddard, Graham Donald, JP Michel, Dave Redekopp and many more), here is just a sampling of the sessions on offer:

  • Career Development as a Lever for Poverty Reduction
  • Preparing Jobseekers for Virtual Work
  • What Employers Need from Career Development Professionals
  • Climate-aware Careers: Cultivating Hope
  • Build an Online Personal Brand for Counsellors
  • Future-proofing Students Through WIL
  • Adapting Skills for Success for Marginalized Groups
  • Post-Pandemic Interview Strategies
  • Youth Resurgence: Finding What Was Lost During COVID
  • The Future is Now: AI & Career Services
  • Catalyzing Change: Creating Access and Economic Mobility
  • What Color is Your Parachute and Beyond
  • Helping Clients Cope with Bias During Job Search
  • Finding Mental Health Opportunity Within Career Development Intervention
  • Labour Market Trends You Need to Know
  • KAIROS Blanket Exercise

CERIC is also partnering with the Future Skills Centre (FSC) to provide a dedicated half-day stream of programming called Future Skills @Cannexus as part of the in-person conference. At Cannexus23, Future Skills will showcase a varied program that highlights a vision for career guidance in Canada and delves deep into future trends and initiatives.


Included in both virtual and in-person registrations
  • Around the World special programming for global perspectives on career development: US, Europe and beyond
  • Keynotes on: Diversity and Unconsious Bias, The Redefined World of Work, and Resiliency through Adversity
  • Spark! sessions, our take on TedTalks that are intended to spark you to think differently about your work

Hybrid sessions act as bridges between the in-person and virtual conference, creating a shared Cannexus experience. In-person attendees also receive access to the virtual platform at the end of the conference. Both in-person and virtual attendees will have access to these recordings for six months.

Delegates can save by registering by the Early Bird deadline of Friday, Nov. 4. The cost during Early Bird is $330 for the virtual and $500 for the in-person conference. Members of groups of 5 or more save a further 25% off Early Bird rates as do members of 32 supporting organizations. 

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2022

CERIC ED Riz Ibrahim to become CEO of The Counselling Foundation of Canada

It has been announced that CERIC Executive Director Riz Ibrahim will be leaving CERIC to take on the position of President & CEO of The Counselling Foundation of Canada. He will succeed current Foundation leader Bruce Lawson in this role. The Foundation established CERIC and has been its primary funder. This transition is expected to take place in spring 2023. 

Concurrent with these announcements, Candy Ho, Chair of the CERIC Board, announced that there will be a national search for a new Executive Director (ED) to replace Ibrahim, who has been the ED of CERIC since its inception in 2003.   

 “While we are sad to lose Riz as ED, given the close relationship between the Foundation and CERIC, he won’t be far away,” says Ho. “Riz has played a pivotal role in the development of CERIC as the leading Canadian organization advancing education and research in career counselling and career development. A new ED will have a strong foundation to build upon.”  

As CERIC Executive Director, Ibrahim expanded the reach and scope of CERIC’s work by actively engaging stakeholders from a broad range of sectors within the career development ecosystem. Partnership, collaboration and inclusion have been at the core of CERIC’s growth and development. 

Notably, he created research and learning vehicles that have made CERIC a credible and non-partisan voice in career development in Canada. Most significantly, Ibrahim was instrumental in initiating and expanding Cannexus, Canada’s Career Development Conference, now in its 17th year, as the premiere learning and networking event for career development professionals in Canada. 

In the coming weeks, CERIC will launch its national search to recruit a new Executive Director.  

Read the full announcement. 

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2022

Fall 2022 issue of Canadian Journal of Career Development released

The newest edition of the Canadian Journal of Career Development (CJCD) has just been published to wrap up its 20th anniversary year. The current issue (Volume 22, Number 2) includes a range of timely research from priming jobs as skill development to artificial intelligence for résumé critiquing.

Articles

Academic Book Reviews

The Canadian Journal of Career Development (CJCD)  is a partnership between CERIC and Memorial University of Newfoundland with the support of The Counselling Foundation of Canada as well as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. CJCD is published twice a year. It is free to subscribe to the digital editions and all issues of the open-access journal dating back to 2002 are available online. 

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2022

Award-winning career development leader Dr. Candy Ho becomes Chair of CERIC Board

CERIC is pleased to officially announce Candy Ho, EdD, as the new Chair of its Board of Directors for a two-year term. Ho, the inaugural Assistant Professor, Integrative Career and Capstone Learning in the University of the Fraser Valley in BC, will lead the Board in delivering on CERIC’s mission to advance career development in Canada. A national charitable organization, CERIC has two strategic mandates: promoting career development as a priority for the public good, and building career development knowledge, mindsets and competencies. 

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2022

Announcing fall webinars October-November 2022: Real-World Resume Strategy, Motivation at Work, and Reflective Practice

CERIC will be offering three new webinar series on its fall calendar. The first series will help career practitioners to understand the foundation of strategic resume development. The second series will address clients’ motivation and how they can develop skills to remain energetic, enthusiastic and effective. The third series will guide career development professionals on effectively integrating reflective practice into experiential learning.

Today’s employment market demands a new standard for resumes that a template cannot deliver. Strategic resume development is vital for career professionals to provide customized and valuable support, address individual client backgrounds, objectives and needs, and help their clients meet their goals.

This webinar series will introduce participants to techniques that leading Canadian professional resume writers use to attract employer attention, appeal to hiring managers, deal with barriers, and optimize for ATS (applicant tracking systems).

Motivation is the most important driver behind achieving goals. If someone is not motivated, they achieve very little – or nothing at all. Developing the skills to motivate others is not a mysterious game of chance – rather, new research from the field of psychology reveals how we can help others to work more enthusiastically towards their goals and remain focused even when obstacles appear.

These webinars offer a range of valuable tools for professionals to pass along to clients in their career development journey. Participants will engage in a rich and varied learning experience with the opportunity to test their knowledge in the third and final webinar of the series through small group exercises.

With increasing investment in and expansion of Experiential and Work Integrated Learning programs, you want to ensure the most successful outcomes. But one of the stickiest challenges remains how to integrate quality Reflective Practice to help learners make meaning of their experience, and better translate their learning to their next steps in work or learning.

This series will move participants from Reflective Practice theory to evaluating specific resources that unlock Career Development’s value within Experiential and Work-Integrated Learning programs.

Registered participants in all the series will receive a video recording of each session. Individual certificates of attendance will be provided to all registered participants who attend the webinars live.

CERIC’s paid webinars are now hosted via the Zoom events platform to provide more interactive learning and networking opportunities. Participants will have access to a lobby where they can interact with other participants before, between and after the sessions, as well as many interaction options during the live webinars. An FAQ answers any technical questions.

CERIC partners with associations and organizations across Canada and beyond to present webinars that offer affordable professional development. Previously, CERIC has also worked with the Association of Service Providers for Employability and Career Training BCAssociation québécoise des professionnels du développement de carrière, , Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers, Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association,  Career Development Association of AlbertaExperiential and Work-Integrated Learning OntarioFirst Work, Labour Market Information Council , New Brunswick Career Development AssociationNova Scotia Career Development AssociationOntario Association of Career Management, Ontario School Counsellors’ Association,  Ordre des conseillers et conseillères d’orientation du Québec, Vocational Rehabilitation Association (Canada),  and the US-based National Career Development Association.

 

 

 

 

 

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2022

Project to map Canada’s career services landscape awarded to Challenge Factory and CCDF

CERIC has selected Challenge Factory in partnership with the Canadian Career Development Foundation (CCDF) to take on a project that will scope out who is providing career services where across Canada, producing insights that can influence the future of the field. This project will demonstrate the breadth and depth of support that Canadians receive from this sometimes-hidden sector as we all navigate a changing labour market. The career development sector can be critical leaders over the next 10 years, shaping the future of work, employment, education, purpose and community. 

Canada currently lacks basic comprehensive data on the overall size, scope and composition of its career development sector. Having this valid and credible information is necessary to inform the field itself as well as policymakers – and Canadians broadly – as to the makeup of this varied group of professionals. Scoping the career development landscape will increase the core intelligence available to the sector to address a range of work related to determining the socio-economic impact of career development, understanding career professionals’ learning needs, and advocating for public awareness and recognition of the value of career development. 

Challenge Factory and CCDF bring deep expertise in research and the Canadian career development sector to this Scoping the Canadian Career Development Landscape project. Challenge Factory is a workforce development research agency and consultancy that helps purpose-driven organizations and communities shape the future of work, bringing transformative change to their people and workplaces. CCDF is a non-profit centre of excellence and innovation committed to ensuring every Canadian can be successful in their learning, work and career transitions, and to that end, conducts rigorous research to strengthen the evidence base.  

This project emerged from a Request for Proposal (RFP) that CERIC issued earlier in the year to undertake first-of-its-kind market research about the field. The purpose is to make the field more visible by answering fundamental questions around how many professionals are practising career development in some form in the country. As part of gaining a full picture of the career development landscape, the project will also seek to identify select high-level outcome measures that flow from the delivery of career services. Additionally, the research will consider the state of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Indigeneity (EDII) among career professionals in Canada and whether those providing career development services reflect learners and clients they serve.  

To date, research about the landscape of career development in Canada has been patchwork in nature and not produced reliable baseline date. This new mapping effort will create an up-to-date snapshot of the field by consolidating and leveraging information sources that already exist, then filling in the gaps using targeted primary data collection. Stakeholder engagement and collaboration throughout the project is planned to ensure incorporation of a diversity of sector-wide perspectives, knowledge and expertise.  

A key output of this project will be the development and testing of a “Scoping Model” that will provide a foundational evidence base about the structure of the pan-Canadian field. It will include insights and recommendations that will be of use to professional associations, educational institutions and employers who provide leadership and support to the field, and government policymakers who work on related policies, programs and funding. 

The findings of the project will be known by the beginning of 2024.

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Motivation at Work: Helping Your Clients to Develop Skills for Energy, Enthusiasm and Effectiveness

PAST PAID WEBINAR SERIES

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 Dr. Jason Cressey

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  • October 18, 25 & November 1, 2022

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET

Cost

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Overview

Motivation is the most important driver behind achieving goals. If someone is not motivated, they achieve very little – or nothing at all. Perhaps the greatest gift we can offer others (and ourselves) is the extra push that can make all the difference: targets that may now be reached and dreams that can be realized. Developing the skills to motivate others is not a mysterious game of chance – rather, new research from the field of psychology reveals how we can help others to work more enthusiastically towards their goals and remain focused even when obstacles appear. The skills involved include the kind of questions we ask (and the way we ask them), the insights we offer, the way we show up ourselves and the way we encourage others to think. These skills are subtle – but vitally important – for you to help others achieve the success they seek.

Why Career Practitioners Should Attend

The benefits are two-fold: motivation is an essential skill to share with clients who feel disillusioned due to career upheaval, exhaustion or anxiety. In this sense, the webinars offer a range of valuable tools for professionals to pass along to clients in their career development journey.

Additionally, the onus lies on career development professionals themselves to model high levels of motivation and integrate the skills presented in these sessions into their own professional lives. The insights gained from this webinar series, therefore, stand to benefit both those who attend and, in turn, the clients they serve.

Finally, participants will engage in a rich and varied learning experience with the opportunity to test their knowledge in the third and final webinar of the series through small group exercises.

Webinar #1: What motivation is (and isn’t)

Tuesday, October 18
  • Understand what motivation is and why internal motivation is so essential to human behaviour
  • Identify the many different types of motivation and understand how each has a different likelihood of long-term positive/successful outcomes
  • Learn what types of rewards motivate people (and which do not)
  • Distinguish between coercion, persuasion and true motivation
  • Explore your own relationship with motivation and how this can impact those you work with
  • Gain an understanding of how motivation ebbs and flows over time and how to cultivate the “golden moments” when it is most prevalent

Webinar #2: The critical skills to motivate

Tuesday, October 25
  • Explore the 10 critical skills to motivate others
  • Identify what communication styles positively impact motivation levels
  • Understand the importance of non-verbal behaviour in levels of motivation
  • Confront the major factors that occur when people lose motivation, and help them get a ‘kick start’ if apathy sets in
  • Work with the skills of empathy, reframing and defining purpose to enhance levels of motivation

Webinar #3: Motivation in action: practicing the skills hands on

Tuesday, November 1
  • Apply the skills from the previous two webinars in paired discussions and small-group activities
  • Get real-time feedback on your motivational skills
  • Explore real-world situations and consider how the skills acquired in this course can be applied to maximum effect
  • Gain an experiential understanding of motivational theories, and use the opportunity to ask any remaining questions you may have to become a more motivated career specialist
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Dr. Jason Cressey gained his PhD from Oxford University, specializing in social behaviour, interpersonal communication, emotional intelligence, cultural differences and positive psychology. Since 1997, he has been a consultant and workshop facilitator for a wide range of clients – from small non-profits to global corporations – on a variety of psychology-related topics. He is a popular keynote speaker and brings a dose of humour and personal story-telling to all his presentations. Jason also offers online coaching/counselling, applying insights and perspectives from his many years in the field to assist clients in managing obstacles and challenging situations.

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What attendees at Dr. Jason Cressey's 2021 Positively Resilient webinar series had to say:

Kim Abram, Case Manager, ISSofBC, BC

Dr. Jason Cressey is of a high caliber – great info, practical ways to apply what we learn, the PowerPoint was well-made and kept my attention, and his presentation style is engaging. Usually how the event is delivered is as important as what is delivered, so speakers with this type of professionalism and energy would lead to more great webinars.

Tonya Holowitski, Career and Diversity Advisor, CPA Alberta, Alberta

Keep using speakers like this man.  Really engaging and alive on screen.

Simrat Sathi, Case Manager, ISSofBC, Case Manager, BC

The webinar was great! Excellent topic, content and presenter. There was a lot of information shared generously, which the audience appreciates. In our organization, my teammates were grateful for the content and tips. Dr. Jason Cressey has a simple approach to complex issues, which made it easy to learn! I am able to apply the valuable tips in many situations in the past 2 weeks.

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Real-World Resume Strategy: What Do CDPs Need to Know in 2023?

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 Gabrielle LeClair and Barb Penney

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  • Wednesday, October 12, 2022
  • Wednesday, October 19, 2022
  • Wednesday, October 26, 2022

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET (check your timezone)

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Overview

Today’s employment market demands a new standard for resumes that a template cannot deliver. Strategic resume development is vital for career professionals to provide customized and valuable support, address individual client backgrounds, objectives and needs, and help their clients meet their goals.

This webinar series will introduce participants to techniques that leading Canadian professional resume writers use to attract employer attention, appeal to hiring managers, deal with barriers, and optimize for ATS (applicant tracking systems). Participants will hear from Master Certified Resume Strategists and Career Professionals of Canada (CPC) course instructors and benefit from real examples and samples from Best Canadian Resumes.

Why Career Practitioners Should Attend

This webinar series offers career practitioners the opportunity to understand the foundation of strategic resume development and learn more about developing strategic and customized resumes, marketing client value, incorporating rich accomplishment statements, and maximizing resumes with formatting techniques.

Participants will engage in an engaging learning experience with exercises, activities, and opportunities to self-reflect on their learning. By the end of the series, participants will know more about upgraded resume writing and current theories, concepts and best practices in supporting their clients in their job applications.

Webinar #1: Understand resume strategy

Wednesday, October 12
  • See the resume as strategic marketing document
  • Promote client value using marketing best practices
  • Appeal to employers with customized resumes
  • Position clients as uniquely qualified
  • Showcase skills including those gained through pandemic

Webinar #2: Leverage resume design and mechanics

Wednesday, October 19
  • Write actively using future-focused language
  • See the difference effective writing can make
  • Shift focus from barriers to client value
  • Be strategic with resume real estate
  • Brand your client with resume formatting that works
  • Explore upscaled resume designs

Webinar #3: Optimize resumes for ATS

Wednesday, October 26
  • Review the most important considerations for ATS
  • Optimize client success using keywords for ATS
  • Consider layout and design for ATS compatibility
  • Discover how to learn more about advanced resume development and designing resumes for ATS

Individual certificates of attendance will be provided to all registered participants who attend the webinar LIVE.

COST Non-CPC Members

CPC Members

Individual Rate

$159

$119

Group Rate*

$119.25 each

$89.25 each

*If you register 5 or more participants from the same organization at the same time, you qualify for the group rate of 25% off registration fees.

CERIC PAID webinars are now hosted on the Zoom Event platform! Learn about the changes in our FAQ.

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Gabrielle LeClair is a Master-certified resume writer and career coach with more than 15 years of experience building partnerships with thousands of clients to create authentic and compelling resumes. Through her work with Career Professionals of Canada, instructing the popular one-week Real-World Resume Strategy program, Gabrielle empowers career practitioners to expand their professional competencies and increase their impact with their clients. Gabrielle draws on her bachelor’s degree in adult education from Brock University to create environments for professionals to share their knowledge and experience within a supportive community of learners.

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Barb Penney is an award-winning Master Certified Resume Strategist and a Career Professionals of Canada course instructor and volunteer. She worked as a human resources professional in the healthcare and private and charitable sectors for 25+ years. Today Barb operates her own career consulting business, Winning Resumes Career Solutions.

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How to Effectively Integrate Reflective Practice in Experiential Learning for Career Development: Tools, Frameworks and Map

PAST PAID WEBINAR SERIES

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 Mark Franklin, Rich Feller and Sean Elliott

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  • November 22, 29 & December 6, 2022

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET

Cost

  • PAID Webinar Series

Overview

With increasing investment in and expansion of Experiential and Work Integrated Learning programs, you want to ensure the most successful outcomes. But one of the stickiest challenges remains how to integrate quality Reflective Practice to help learners make meaning of their experience, and better translate their learning to their next steps in work or learning. While many desire to use reflective practice to unlock the Career Development value within Experiential Learning, it often does not occur as much or as effectively as they would like.

The CERIC-OneLifeTools Wayfinder project uncovered benefits of quality Reflective Practice (RP) including better learner performance, engagement and retention; enabling knowledge translation and making the most of feedback and supervision; increased effectiveness in planning professional and personal development; gaining the ability to identify development of human skills such as decision-making, goal setting, problem-solving and communicating to gain employment; greater job satisfaction and enhanced professional life. Importantly, the project showed that effective RP in Experiential Learning (EL) unlocks Career Development (CD) value.

Join three 1-hour sessions to move from RP theory to evaluating specific resources that unlock CD’s value within your Experiential and Work-Integrated Learning programs. You’ll

  1. examine Foundations and Frameworks,
  2. evaluate Practical Tools, Questions and Prompts and
  3. experience 3 specific Reflective Practices to integrate into your customized Reflective Practice Map.

For those who attended a Wayfinder launch session, this series goes far beyond the brief demos and scenarios, and offers substantive learning drawing on insights and tools from the Wayfinder project.

Who Should Attend

Career practitioners, WIL practitioners, co-op / internship staff. faculty members, professors. Those involved or interested in Experiential Learning, Service Learning, Capstones and more.

Why Should You Attend

Advance RP for EL to maximize connection between RP, EL and CD. By the end of the series, participants will better understand the theory of RP, will be able to apply RP frameworks and best practices, and will be able to evaluate questions and prompts for EL initiatives. Participants leave with a draft Reflective Practice Map for their EL initiatives and will engage in a rich and engaging learning experience with the opportunity to see tools, watch demos and engage in small group practice.

Webinar #1: Examine foundations and frameworks

Tuesday, November 22
  • Making the case for better RP for EL
  • Finding resources for RP: Wayfinder search site overview (https://ceric.ca/wayfinder/) and use cases
  • Understanding EL-RP Frameworks
  • Be introduced to 2 concepts from Wayfinder: DEAL & Experience Record
  • Begin customizing Reflective Practice Map

Webinar #2: Evaluate practical tools, prompts and questions

Tuesday, November 29
  • Evaluate RPs and Wayfinder resources for you to localize for your initiatives
  • Customize a Reflective Practice Map for your initiatives
  • Experience 1st of 3 Reflective Practice Tools: Learn, Practice, Evaluate (e.g. Feedforward, Clarification Sketch, Reflecting on Competency Development)

Webinar #3: Experience 3 practices to embed into your EL or WIL

Tuesday, December 6
  • Learn & practice two more RP tools, then integrate into your customized Reflective Practice Map
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Mark Franklin, MEd, PEng, leads CareerCycles, co-founded OneLifeTools, teaches career management at University of Toronto and is a Stu Conger Career Development Leadership Award recipient. Mark consulted in his earlier engineering career, before earning a master’s in counselling then leading student services initiatives in universities. He led the CERIC-funded Wayfinder project.

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Rich Feller, PhD, is former president of the National Career Development Association, one of Colorado State University’s 12 University Distinguished Teaching Scholars, Executive Director of the Career Development Network, advisor to YouScience and OneLifeTools co-founder.

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Sean Elliott, CCDP, MEd, is Regional Associate Director, Central Region with CEWIL Canada. He assists postsecondary educational partners in exploring innovative WIL opportunities. Previously, he worked in career development, employer relations, co-operative education, EL and WIL, as a champion for underrepresented and marginalized community groups. Sean is Certified Career Development Practitioner.

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Testimonials– Wayfinder

What people have been saying about the Wayfinder and its Reflective Practice resources:

Roberta Borgen, President, Life Strategies, BC

I liked the term “preflection” and appreciated the emphasis on reflection at all stages of experiential learning. I appreciated the research that went into this project and how effectively the resources has been organized for easy access.

Darlene Hnatchuk, Director, Career Planning Service (CaPS), McGill University, Montreal, QC

Whether designing for co-curricular or curricular experiential learning, CERIC’s new Wayfinder provides tools to link career development to reflective practice, to help learners make meaning of their experience, and better translate their learning to the workplace… I am thrilled about this new self-serve resource from CERIC and am already sharing with colleagues on- and off-campus how this can enhance learners’ development in their activities.

Gillian Johnston, CCDP, Director CDPCBO & Professor, George Brown College, ON

The site you have created and all the resources are incredible. In teaching new CDPs to be reflective, your resources are a motherlode of material that will help them on their way to being reflective practitioners who can also help clients in the reflective process.

Find Reflective Practice Resources to enhance Career Development within Experiential Learning

The Wayfinder search site from OneLifeTools curates top resources and insights to create or improve reflective practice on experiential learning and expand career development impact.

The free Reflective Practice tools discussed in this webinar series will be drawn from the Wayfinder.

The Wayfinder can be searched by type of resource, type of experiential learning, type of practitioner (called maker), type of learner and more. Whether you identify as post-secondary staff, event or workshop facilitator, employer, community organization, K-12 teacher or counsellor, a student or learner, the site is for you.

The Wayfinder site also features several additional resources, including the Maker’s Audit & Guide and Literature Search & Abstract.

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