School’s out for summer – but the learning opportunities never stop! Check out courses and webinars taking place throughout July and August on a variety of topics including resume development, Motivational Interviewing and Contextual Action Theory. Plus, don’t miss two upcoming calls for conference presenters for events happening this fall.
Courses
Additional Qualification Courses in Guidance and Career Education (OSCA)
July 3-31
This three-part training will equip participants with real-time practice of the skills needed to be an effective guidance teacher-counsellor. Part 3 is focused on the counsellor as a school leader and agent of change within the educational environment.
Data Analytics for HR 101 (CPHR MB)
July 19-28
HR professionals need foundational data literacy to improve their analytics skills and ensure they can make more informed people decisions, allowing them to have a seat at the table with senior executives at their organization. This course will teach participants how to make better data-backed decisions.
Certified Hidden Job Market Coach (Resume Writing Academy)
July 25 – Sept. 5
Job search takes a toll on confidence, motivation, and follow-through. From targeting search to networking and using social media, opportunities for fear to erode success are constant. Are you looking for tools to address fears and barriers that stop job seekers in their tracks? The Certified Hidden Job Market Coach (CHJMC) program offers a structured approach to job search planning, networking, and action.
MBTI® Certification Program (Psychometrics)
July 31 – Aug. 3
This four-day program prepares participants to successfully administer and interpret the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Topics include: improving team performance; developing leaders; managing conflict; improving communication; handling stress; and guiding career exploration.
Advanced Résumé Development Course (Career Professionals of Canada)
Aug. 7-25
This course will present advanced strategic principles and technical practices for the development of resumes and cover letters for the Canadian market. These principles and practices will develop participants’ range of expertise in strategic resume writing, enabling them to provide custom support services to clients.
Career Development Foundations Course (Career Professionals of Canada)
Aug. 7-25
This Career Development Foundations Course is designed to provide learners with the core competencies that they require to perform effectively as a career development practitioner. It will enable participants to apply ethics, theories and models to their practice.
Webinars and virtual events
Building an Intersectional Lens for Career Counselling (APCDA)
July 6
This will be a 2-part webinar series from The Gender Lab where facilitators will explore intersectionality through a participatory workshop. Part I will explore intersectionality, how it shows up for each of us and why it is an important lens to build.
Helping Clients With Mid-Life Career Reinvention (CDAA)
July 12
Do you want to help your clients in their mid-life (45-60) to reinvent themselves when they are facing redundancy, feeling lost and unclear how to make themselves relevant again in the world of work? In this hands-on and interactive webinar, attendees will learn how to help clients in their mid-life reinvent their careers.
Practical Applications of Motivational Interviewing (First Work)
July 13 & Aug. 9
Do you struggle to understand a client’s motivation or lack thereof? Have you found yourself more invested in the goal than the client? Do you want to understand the concepts of ambivalence, readiness and strategies to avoid the Righting Reflex? This two-part webinar series will dive deep into the evidence-based counselling approach of Motivational Interviewing.
Greening and Growing (APCDA)
July 20
This webinar will explore the different sustainability themes necessary in education and training, how to develop different levels of green skills for curriculums and how small actions implemented by many can make a difference. It will culminate with how the Sustainable Development Goals help us to look after people, planet and profit.
A Contextual Action Theory Approach to Career Theory and Practice (CICA)
July 26
In this interactive webinar, Dr. José Domene will discuss the application of Young and colleagues’ Contextual Action Theory to career counselling practice, address on key theoretical concepts, career interventions based on the theory, existing research support for the theory and case vignettes.
Peer Learning Group: Digital Engagement Redefined: Innovations in the Workforce Development Landscape (Future Skills Canada, Magnet, Research Impact Canada)
July 26
In this virtual event, participants will discuss how organizations can embrace technology and digital infrastructure to improve workforce development efforts. Participants are invited to share their experiences working in the workforce development sector, and the challenges and opportunities they see for leveraging digital tools.
Career Construction: Making Self through Story (CICA)
Aug. 9
This webinar engages participants in exploring career construction as a practice method and conceptual frame for understanding and assisting others facing career transitions and choices to tell, hear, re-tell and enact with greater purpose their own life-career stories.
Outsourcing Non-Core Functions: The Pros, Cons, Best Practices and Things to Consider (CharityVillage)
Aug. 10
To hire in-house, or to outsource? That is the question that most non-profits face at one point or another along their journey. It’s a big decision and one that should not be taken lightly. This webinar will tackle the ins and outs of outsourcing non-core functions, including the pros and cons, functions that lend themselves to outsourcing, best practices and important things to consider.
Meritocracy: A myth (Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion)
Aug. 10
The notion that people who are successful must have earned their success through hard work, known as “meritocracy”, can affect our perceptions of ourselves and of others and can impact our willingness to make efforts against oppression and toward social justice. This webinar will shed light on dominant cultural narratives around merit and their impact on our behaviours.
Artificial Intelligence: Will AI Replace Career Development Professionals in the Future? (NCDA)
Aug. 11
This session will provide career practitioners with an overview of AI, including current uses by career practitioners. Insights into how AI will be integrated into career development will be included. This session is not limited to practitioners who specialize in technology. It is for any career practitioner who wants to stay on the pulse of trends in technology and career development. Join this international panel of industry and education leaders for a session devoted to the future of AI in the context of career development.
Measuring DEI progress: Tools and analytics (Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion)
Aug. 15
This webinar offers insights into how organizations can track and measure meaningful DEI metrics that enable long-term sustainability of an inclusive organizational culture and accomplish strategic business objectives.
Sexual Harassment in Experiential Learning: A Price Students Shouldn’t Have to Pay (Possibility Seeds)
Aug. 17
This webinar will share findings from the first national study looking at sexual harassment in experiential learning and introduce our suite of free, practical tools and resources, including a model for responding to disclosures and a workbook for building protocol to respond to sexual violence and harassment in experiential learning.
Using Personality Insights in Career Planning (CDAA)
Aug. 23
This practical webinar will help you engage and influence your client, even when they are tricky to work with. We’ll start with helpful insights into personality types using DISC, and learn how to assess and adapt your approach for different styles – right down to the phrases you might use. Using this knowledge, this webinar will dive into case studies where participants will put their new-found skills into practice.
Ethical Explorations and Dilemmas in Career Development (NCDA)
Aug. 31
Members of NCDA’s Ethics Committee will share their work and seek to deepen attendees’ knowledge of ethics. This webinar seeks to address ethical development and offer ethical case discussions as a way to promote critical thinking. The presenters will explore culture-based ethical dilemmas using case studies to highlight learning points.
Conferences and calls for presenters
2023 Futures Workforce Development Conference (First Work)
Proposals due: July 7 | Conference: Oct. 25-27, 2023
Futures is a workforce development conference for employment service providers that attracts over 300 professionals from across Canada each year. Conference programming typically reaches each level of workforce development, from frontline counsellors to managers and executives to employers and policy makers.
BC Labour Market Conference (Labour Market Online)
July 20-21
There are 1.59 million working age adults in BC who are not working, not in school and are not looking for work. Why aren’t they participating in the labour market? This year’s labour market conference is focusing on the specific steps career development organizations and employers can take to engage these potential workers.
2023 SEMM Forum (Brainstorm Strategy Group)
No deadline listed for proposals | Conference: Nov. 7-9, 2023
SEMM Forum provides an opportunity for everyone on campus to have a positive and sustainable impact on the institutional outcomes that support student success. Presenters will receive a $400 discount for the full (2-day) program in November in Toronto.
