Making it work: Strategies from a rural school district’s sole counsellor
How a school counsellor in a small Texas town employs creativity, flexibility and intentionality to promote career readiness....
Act up: Nudging career practitioners toward ‘good trouble’
“You must find a way to get in the way, and get into good trouble, necessary trouble” – Congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis (1940 - 2020) The time...
Resources on career development and social justice (Part 1)
Career development does not take place in a vacuum. An individual’s ability to pursue work that meets their needs and that they find fulfilling is affected by intersecting issues such...
Balancing adaption and access: Career services’ response to COVID
Being able to respond quickly to changes in the economy, from a local business closing to a global pandemic, is one of the strengths that career practitioners and agencies bring...
CareerWise Weekly: Resume hurdles | Graduate uncertainty | Cultural fit – Aug. 18, 2020
Why we should stop asking kids what they want to be when they grow up, How to overcome common resume and CV stumbling blocks, Recent Grads Are Drowning in Uncertainty....
4 reports that caught our eye the week of August 16, 2020
Each week, CERIC is on the lookout for the latest reports related to career development. Here are four reports that we found interesting this week: Investing in a Resilient Canadian...
Rapid response lessons for sectors in crisis
Workforce disruptions can be triggered by a variety of community and organizational breakdowns, by unforeseen technological leaps within a particular sector and/or by the cascading outfall of massive social interrupters...
Canada’s agriculture sector must adapt to overcome chronic labour shortages
The industry needs training to improve worker expertise and ensure farm employers have skills to manage their workforce....
Pulse Survey: How Job Developer Moragh Ferguson-MacDonald is navigating COVID-19
In June, CERIC released the Recovery Pulse Survey with the aim of learning more about how COVID-19 was affecting career services in Canada. Nearly 1,150 career professionals from across the country responded....
Resources to support virtual career counselling
Online career counselling has become the new normal and may continue to be a key part of services going forward. Career professionals can add different perspectives and approaches to develop...