Lindsay Purchase, CERIC Content & Communications Editor In between watching Office Space and Gladiator in my Grade 10 Careers class (essential viewing for our career education), we took an online career aptitude test. Would I be a veterinarian? An author? No, the destiny that awaited me – a student who later quit school sports for…
How do new ways of working with clients get legitimized in the career development field? The OneLifeTools origin story offers some clues Ali Breen This article is based on an interview the author conducted with Mark Franklin, Co-founder of OneLifeTools and Practice Leader at CareerCycles. How does a new assessment system become a standard, accepted…
CERIC-funded project to examine role of career education on outcomes of young Canadians The Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC) is undertaking a project, supported by CERIC, that will identify the impact of career interventions/education on high school students’ post-secondary choices and workforce outcomes. The project will use data documenting 10 years in the lives…
View PDF here: What’s in your career assessments toolbox? This infographic was also published in the 2019 Summer issue of Career Developments, the National Career Development Association print magazine.
Dr Chris Wood is an Associate Professor and Department Chair in the Counselor Education, School Psychology and Human Services Department at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has been a faculty member at Old Dominion University, Seattle University, Ohio State University and the University of Arizona. Dr Wood has previous experience as a high…
In this Careering feature, jobseekers reflect on successes and struggles in their career development When a series of life changes left Debra Thompson at a fork in the road, she turned to a former client for guidance – and became the client herself Our business relationship started several years ago, when she was the client…
Many refugees who arrive in Canada are highly skilled, but have little access to evidence to prove their academic achievements Beatrice Kohlenberg The United Nations estimates that there are more than 68 million individuals displaced as a result of natural disasters, conflict and violence (United Nations, 2018). Many are forced to flee with little to…
While there has been progress in advancing inclusion for students with disabilities in Canadian colleges and universities, there is still work to be done to reduce structural barriers, discrimination and alienation from access to career education and work-integrated learning, according to the Final Report of a CERIC-funded project undertaken by the National Educational Association of…
By Amani Hitimana Twenty-two percent of the general population in Canada or 6.2 million Canadians have at least one disability (Canadian Survey on Disability, 2017) and yet this minority group is under-researched in academic fields (Lengnick-Hall et al., 2008; Shore et al., 2009). Morris-Wales (2010) noted that there is a need to determine the most…
By Angela Rutakomozibwa I am currently a graduate student at the university of British Columbia (UBC) who is originally a professional trained teacher and educator with over 15 years’ experience in education management. I taught science at an advanced level, in particular physics. Further, I have worked with the Ministry of Education in designing, developing…
