Cannexus 2010 has more than 80 great sessions to choose from as well as 3 outstanding keynote speakers!
Check out the preliminary programme with sessions confirmed to date! www.cannexus.ca
September 22 2009
We are pleased to announce that the Cannexus 2010 conference registration rates for Regular Delegates and Members of Supporting Organizations, have not risen and are the same as the Cannexus 2009 registration rates. In fact, the one day Student registration rates are more competitive than what was charged
by Nesreen Melek
My office desk separates me from my client. Eighteen years ago, I was sitting in the same chair, puzzled, depressed and not knowing what my options were. How did I make it? How did I move from being a client to an employment counselor? How did I make it? How do I look at those years? Please allow me to share my story with you.
by Christine Gertz
Many career professionals have heard of Facebook and social networking, but some are unaware of the business networking side of social media, specifically the business networking site, LinkedIn, http://www.linkedin.com. Other career advisors may have received an invitation and pressed the delete key. Here are six reasons for career advisors and counselors to accept the invitation to join.
by Susan Qadeer
Career counsellors working with newcomers are often called on to weigh and explore academic options with their clients. There are some very good reasons for newcomers to go back to school. They may find that they are unable to get reasonable work without Canadian qualifications; they may need time to improve their language skills or learn more about Canadian life and culture or like many others, this may just be the right time to pursue post secondary studies. In determining whether it should be a college or university, fulltime or part time, with or without a co-op work experience, or just a few courses, you will want to review determining factors with your client.
by Craig Nathanson
This is a year of financial turmoil in which millions of people around the world have seen their retirement nest eggs shrink, and their houses decrease in value. For many, a generalized anxiety about their future keeps them up at night.
by Marilyn Van Norman
In a recent conversation with a very wise and successful woman, the words in the title were used with passion. They came in response to a question about the importance of life long learning. She began by talking about the fact that at some point in her career she started to try to analyze why some people were successful and others were not. Many of the latter also seemed to be unhappy. There are of course many variables, but, a common feature she said of those who were successful was that they were vital, interested and interesting, curious and never stopped learning. She summed her observations up by saying “What these people had in common was a believe that learning was essential right up until the last breathe is taken.
By Christine Gertz
Twitter has been popping up all over lately: the entertainment news regularly sources celebrity tweets—the name for a Twitter posting—and local and national news use Twitter to post news stories and traffic updates. I attended a conference where a presenter ran one screen with slides of the presentation and used another screen to “Twitter jockey” showing tweets from the audience about questions from the presentation, effectively replacing clickers with the cell phones of persons in the audience.
By Melissa Martin, B.A. B.Ed. TEFL, Bilingual career coach
In my quest to elevate my professional profile and strive to be an expert in the counselling field, I used the six degrees of separation. A colleague recommended that I complete certification in solution-focused interviewing and counselling training, delivered by Dr. Ronald Warner, from the Dept. of Social Work at the University of Toronto.
By Mohammad Habib Ullah
Promoting Internationally Educated Professionals (IEPs) to Canadian employers is a challenging task. In a not for profit setting, employment counsellors and job developers use various techniques and methods to help IEPs find meaningful employment. Internationally educated professionals bring various employability skills, which include both soft and hard skills. Employment counsellors and job developers need to be able to identify these skills for promoting them to employers.