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By Anne Senior

The Centre for Canadian Language Benchmarks (CCLB) is celebrating its 10th year as the centre of expertise in support of the national standards – Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) and les Niveaux de compétence linguistique canadiens (NCLC). These benchmarks are used for describing, measuring and recognizing the second language proficiency of adult immigrants and prospective immigrants for living and working in Canada.

By Christine Gertz

You may be surprised to know that most people don’t know what blogs are. It almost floored me when I presented at a conference this summer. There were several people in the room who wanted to know more about them, and I, in my social networking arrogance, thought that blogs were dead.

By Donald Macnab Ph.D.

As a practitioner, it is part of your role to help the client discover and prioritize their values. This will be helpful to clients in a number of spheres: career counselling, retirement counselling, leisure counselling, team building, organizational planning and other activities in which this type of self-knowledge is important.

By Jan Sheppard Kutcher

When the question arises of why skilled newcomers are so often frustrated in their efforts to become employed in their professions – the usual answer is that they do not have Canadian work experience. This apparent “catch 22” of no Canadian experience/no job is inevitably raised in any discussion of the workforce integration of immigrant professionals. I would argue that this is not, in fact, the answer. Instead, I would suggest that the central reason highly qualified newcomers struggle so hard to integrate into the workforce – is that employers do not like to take risks. When faced with a resume which includes education from a university or college in a distant part of the world or work experience in a company they have never heard of in some far away place, many employers don’t trust it.