www.harbour.sfu.ca/scwist/telementoring/default.htm
Although women make up over half of the population, they are only a small minority of the professionals in math, the sciences and technology. The reasons for the under-representation of women are complex, but one strong factor is that young women lack the necessary role models and the encouragement to pursue the training required.
By Terresa Augustine, Executive Director
Career Management Association of BC
Formally launched in 1996 as the Labour Market and Career Information Association of BC, today, the Career Management Association of BC exists to identify and move forward the interests and needs of organizations, associations and practitioners impacted by career development, management and information within the Province of British Columbia.
By Kevin C. Jackson
Transference and countertransference are natural projective behaviors and are to be expected in the counselling relationship. “Transference” refers to certain unconsciously redirected feelings, fears, or emotions from a client towards the counsellor that actually stems from past feelings and interactions with others and is transferred into the current counselling relationship. “Countertransference” refers to the projecting of a counsellor’s experiences, values and repressed emotions that are awakened by identification with the client’s experiences, feelings and situation that affect the dynamics of a counselling relationship.
By Rob Shea
For many years most organizations operated without due regard for their employees career development. Any career development activity financed or administered by the organization was relegated to a reactive response to layoffs and or a few workshops here and there.
By Mark Venning
Now a significant global business, the Career Services industry has been quietly transforming over three decades as workplace career issues have swung the vine through workforce reduction, retention, work-life balance and leadership credibility. The scope of our industry is still largely unknown and if known, often misunderstood.
By Pat Thagard
The fourth annual LINX Conference was held in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories December 3 – 5, 2002. The Department of Education, Culture and Employment, Government of the Northwest Territories sponsors the LINX Conference. The conference brought together employment counsellors, educators, and human resource practitioners from across the Northwest Territories as well as a few delegates from Nunavut. The conference attracted over 120 delegates and over 45 presenters.
By Marc Verhoeve
In 1957, Donald Super proposed his now-famous Career Development Stages:
By James Vandervoort and Amber Taverner
The Software Human Resource Council, www.shrc.ca
The Missing Link is an exploration of careers in the Software Technology Industry. There are two different ways to use the CD-ROM: Access descriptive information on 24 job areas; and play the Missing Link Game. The kit contains a CD-ROM, a Teacher’s Guide (which includes lesson plans, research and role-playing activities, group and individual activities), a poster, and a faxback form. The material in this kit is geared towards youth and students and “is suitable for use in career preparation classes, math, and science classes”.
2003 Annual Conference and Exposition – Human Resources Professionals Association of Ontario (HRPAO), Toronto, ON. February 12 – 14, 2003
6th Annual Career Development Conference – The Career Development Kaleidoscope – A Shifting Landscape, Career Management Association of BC, Vancouver BC. March 5 – 7, 2003
Beyond Belief: Meeting the Performance Challenge, ASPECT, Vancouver BC. April 24 – 25, 2003
American Counseling Association Annual Convention, American Counseling Association (ACA) and California Association for Counseling and Development, Anaheim, CA, US. March 21 – 25, 2003
16th Annual Diversity in Mentoring Conference, International Mentoring Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. April 10 – 12, 2003
18th Annual SIOP Conference, The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Orlando, Florida US. April 11 – 13, 2003
E-Learn 2003, World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare and Higher Education, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Phoenix, Arizona, US. April 30, 2003
Monthly Job Developers Online Network Group @ Contact Point C-SPACE
Join fellow practitioners for our monthly Job Developers’ Networking and Chat sessions at C-SPACE. These sessions are facilitated by Contact Point Volunteer Lisa Hoekstra. Discuss strategies and tips; broaden your networks!
Check out the following :
- Wednesday, March 19 (3:00pm – 4:00pm EST) – Topic: Tricks and Tips for Job Developers.
- Wednesday April 16 (3:00pm – 4:00pm EST) – Topic: Professional Development Opportunities for Job Developers.
- Wednesday May 14 (3:00pm – 4:00pm EST) – Topic: How Funding Affects Job Development.
In addition to our Monthly Job Developers Chats, commencing March 2003, we are also initiating the following:
- Chats with Staff – share your thoughts about the site with us here at Contact Point, suggest themes, improvements, or just pop in to see what we’re working on for the site.
- Rural Counsellors Chat – network and chat about the particular challenges you face as a counsellor in a non-urban setting
- Private Practitioner Chat – in private practice or interested in getting into private practice? This chat’s for you.
- Global Lounge – for all of you Contact Point users not from Canada, this chat session is designed specifically for you. Meet colleagues from around the world, or, chat with Canadian career services professionals and share innovations, best practices, and contacts!
- Technology Chats – how is technology changing the nature in which you do your work? What are some issues that you should be aware of when using technology in your counselling process? What technology tools should you be aware of? These are some of the topics we hope to cover in this chat group.
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 “Beyond the Basics,” Dr. Roberta Neault invites us to “use the following information as a guide to your practice and a prompt for further exploration and conversations with your clients.” Drawing together knowledge gleaned, the guidebook includes gems of practical knowledge, mined from years of experience in the field, and hundreds of conferences, courses and conversations with colleagues
Everyday career development tends to boil down to these very basic questions: it’s what our clients need to know, AND it’s what we need to know if we are going to understand, motivate and guide our clients.
“Who are you?”
“Where are you going?”
“What do you need to get there?”
“What is your plan to make this happen?”
The book highlights specific issues which may be presented by an individual client with diverse and complex needs: age, cognitive limitations, criminal records, addictions, emotional/physical disabilities, ethnicity, gender, location, language and socio-economic status are some the specific career issues presented. Far from prescriptive, “Beyond the Basics” presents a tidy summary or relevant background or underlying theory, before listing ways that career practitioners can help individuals address their personal and professional development.
Ever want to know you have been doing a good job? Read through the listings, and pat yourself on the back for using best practices. Feeling a little stale, isolated or stumped? Check again for ideas to incorporate into your next session.
“Beyond the Basics: Real World Skills for Career Practitioners” is like having coffee (or tea) with a good friend and colleague, someone who cares about you and the work you do, and who will brainstorm with you about your next steps, with your client, or with your own career development. This is a guide to help you be a guide as you guide that individual sitting beside you every day at work. I’ll have a Cappuccino. What about you?
Victoria Morris-Ott is a career practitioner and instructor from British Columbia’s Lower Mainland. She has worked with very diverse populations including youth-at-risk, federal parolees, WCB referrals, abused women and community clients in career planning and job finding programs. Victoria is currently teaching in Douglas College’s Continuing Education programs and has recently started taking course to teach English internationally. She has 5 children and 5 1/2 grandchildren.