By Marlene Pomrenke and Heather Morris
Results of a recent study completed by the authors indicate that social workers have congruent values and skills that fit for many non-traditional employment opportunities in social work (Pomrenke & Morris, 2010). To complement and expand on these findings we examined the challenges for social work students in their career journey.
By Juanita Hennessey
What if you worked your whole life at a job you disliked? What if you never figured out what you wanted to do with your life? What if you knew, but circumstances prevented you from realizing your dream? Are there opportunities in later life to undo the regrets of your past?
By Jessica Lawrence
A client’s culture, traditions and religion are major factors affecting their lives and the choices they make. Counsellors must understand these elements in their client’s lives in order to provide effective counselling. Misunderstanding any element may mean missing the chance to effectively support the client.
By Madelaine Currelly
Youth-at-risk are a challenging population to engage. In order to improve learning outcomes, we have incorporated the “Gameworks” methodology, an unusual but effective technique for introducing job skills to youth.
By Habib Ullah
A sector specific approach to job development ensures that a job developer understands the labour market and industrial details of different sectors. You will also gain employers’ trust because you are able to speak their language. This strategy is helpful when promoting internationally educated newcomers in the Canadian labour market.
By Cheri Butler
The Career Practitioner Supervision curriculum was developed by the National Career Development Association (NCDA) with Sandy Manoogian as the lead author and Judy Hoppin serving as consulting editor at the request of the Japan Career Development Association (JCDA). The intent of this professional supervision training, to be released in the fall of 2011, is to introduce the practice of clinical supervision to career practitioners.
By Basak Yanar
Each year Canada welcomes some 200,000 immigrants – over half of which are “skilled” – eager to develop successful careers in their new country.1 Government initiatives and settlement agencies provide a wide array of programs designed to facilitate their entrance into the Canadian labour market. Although 80% of Canada’s immigrants succeed in finding full-time employment after two years of arrival2, this career transition is often defined by underemployment, casual and part-time positions, forced occupational change, and/or lower levels of income.
By Darlene Foster
People often wonder why they get passed over for promotions. What they fail to realize is that getting promoted doesn’t just happen; you have to work at it. Here are a few tips to help propel your career within the organization.
By Gilles Paquette
Parents have a significant influence on their children from a very young age. Keeping parents engaged early on is important. If you are planning to attend Cannexus12 January 23-25, 2012 in Ottawa, you will have over 100 concurrent sessions to choose from. I wanted to point out this particular session which is in line with our theme in this Fall issue of our Bulletin. Allow me to start with this great quote:
By Chris Kulbaba
As I was sitting with one of my six children the other day, inevitably we started to discuss the fact of her going back to school to start Grade 11. “How can I figure out what I want to do?” I started to answer with some directions, and then thought better of it – I took off my parenting hat, and put on my facilitator visor instead – and asked her to let me think it through with her – can we just have some dialogue? What we came up with was a few ideas and points that I would like to share with you – I have highlighted the four best we came up with.