The Contact Point Team

The Contact Point team is constantly expanding. If you would like to be a member of the board of directors, participate on a committee, or be a beta-tester, please send a letter of inquiry highlighting your experience and commitment. Let us know how you can be a part of “the team.”

We strongly encourage practitioners (institutional, non-institutional, private, and not-for-profit) from all parts of Canada to consider making a commitment. Contact Point is committed to regional representation.

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CanWIN/Info-Emploi

CanWIN/Info-Emploi is seeking two people to give leadership to its continuing development. CanWIN/Info-Emploi (formerly CanWorkNet) provides a major Internet service linking providers and consumers of career, education and labour market information. CanWIN/Info-Emploi may be visited at www.canworknet.ca. For more information on the Executive Director or Partnership Manager positions, please visit the Job Board at the Contact Point website. Applications must be received by July 31, 1997.

This space has been donated to CanWIN/Info-Emploi by Contact Point.

 

 

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Practitioner’s Corner

By Sahri Woods Baum, Centre for Student Development and Counselling, Ryerson Polytechnic University; and a member of the Contact Point board

As a counsellor working in a university counselling service, I am very excited about Contact Point, which allows career counsellors across Canada, and in fact worldwide, to access up-to-date information and exchange ideas and information almost instantaneously.

I know that often in my practice I have questions regarding what resources might be most useful in working with particular types of clients or with clients who are facing certain unique problems or difficulties. It’s encouraging to know that there is a Resource Centre that provides annotated bibliographies of materials which can be easily accessed via a keyword search.

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Snapshot

By Kathy Gollert, Canadian Career Information Association (CCIA)

The CCIA draws its 250 members from several sectors: education, government, social and community services, libraries and private practice. The primary goal of these career practitioners is to develop and share current career information. To this end, four professional development meetings are held each year; three issues of the CCIA newsletter, Career INFOcus, are published for members; various CCIA members facilitate workshops at national and regional conferences; and the CCIA Listserv allows on-going discussion of career issues among members.

CCIA is a member of the Contact Point community. CCIA membership information can be accessed through the CCIA site at www.ccia-acadop.ca and the Contact Point members’ link at www.contactpoint.ca. 

 

 

 

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Conference Sketches

The International Association of Career Management Professionals (IACMP) recently held its annual conference in Washington, D.C. Jane Lanthier of Mossop, Cornelissen & Associates was there and provides a sketch of the keynote presentation.

Jeremy Rifkin, author of The End of Work, kicked off the conference with a dynamic and engaging presentation that left participants energized for quite some time

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Hot Sites

Canadian Content

CareerBeacon.com: www.careerbeacon.com

Calgary’s CEC Site: www.nextsteps.org

University of Waterloo’s: Electronic Edition of a Career Manual http://www.cdm.uwaterloo.ca

Young Canada Works: www.pch.gc.ca/ycw-jct\

 

Resume Writing

Career Mosaic’s Job Hunting Guide: www.fortune.com/fortune/careers

Job Smart Resume Guide: jobsmart.org/tools/resume/

The Riley Guide: www.rileyguide.com

What Color Is My Parachute, Electronic Edition: www.jobhuntersbible.com/intro/wciyp.shtml

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