Resilience Within the Career Development Sector
By Deirdre Pickerell and Roberta Neault The career development field needs to build resiliency within the sector in order to address disengagement, apathy, burnout and feelings of underutilization
Career Development in Organizations: A Lost or an Emerging Opportunity?
By Deirdre A. Pickerell and Roberta A. Neault Key insights for career professionals who want to get involved in corporate career development
ETHICS: Do We Do What We Say We Will Do?
By Gisela Theurer and Roberta Neault Jennifer works in an agency that provides employment services to individuals with disabilities1 . One of her colleagues, Margaret, has been struggling with her workload and the stress of the job, and is occasionally very abrupt and impatient with clients. Jennifer observes this behaviour, and tries to talk to…
Book Club
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…
Ethics in practice: A dynamic process in an era of career development professionalization
Examining the ethical codes that guide Canadian career professionals and how to navigate ethical dilemmas in practice Cassie Taylor and Roberta Neault As career development is not yet a regulated profession outside of Quebec, formal career development training is not mandated throughout most of Canada, nor does it abide by a specific ethical code. With…
Become a Diversity Champion: How to Champion for Change and Create Opportunities for Inclusion
By Krista Maydew, MA, GCDF, and Roberta Neault, PhD, CCC, RRP, GCDF When you hear someone talking about diversity in the workplace, people often assume the discussion is about cultural or ethnic diversity. Although programs to increase diversity in the workplace have been used by both public and private sector employers for many years; the…
Career Theories and Models at Work: Ideas for Practice – Now available!
Expected to inform the practice of career development professionals around the globe, CERIC’s new Career Theories and Models at Work book is launching today at the Cannexus conference and available for purchase online now. This international collection, edited by Nancy Arthur (University of Calgary), Roberta Neault (Life Strategies) and Mary McMahon (University of Queensland) features…
Spring-Summer issue of Careering explores corporate career development
The theme of the Spring-Summer 2015 issue of Careering magazine is “Career Development in Organizations” and is full of articles exploring career issues in the corporate world: Corporate Career Development: Art Meets Science, by Bill Huffaker Career Development in Organizations: A Lost or an Emerging Opportunity? by Deirdre A. Pickerell and Roberta A. Neault When…
New book on how career theory informs practice to launch in January
CERIC will publish an edited international collection of contemporary and emerging career development theories and models from 60 leading career researchers and practitioners in January. The book, Career Theories and Models at Work: Ideas for Practice, is edited by Dr Nancy Arthur (University of Calgary), Dr Roberta Neault (Life Strategies) and Dr Mary McMahon (The…
Winter issue of Careering goes Global
The theme of the Winter 2015 issue of Careering magazine is “Global Careers,” and is full of articles that will help you and your clients explore international opportunities: How Can Young Professionals Find International Jobs?, by Jean-Marc Hachey International Careerists: Who works across borders and why?, by Roberta Neault Lessons Learned from Working and Living…