Diversity

Despite Canada being widely acknowledged to have one of the most vibrant settlement sectors in the world, with some 500 non-profit organizations that deliver programs and services to help newcomers...

How do you build and lead a team of professionals who excel in their tasks and exceed your department’s targets? Some of the ways managers can achieve this have been...

A University of Alberta program is connecting professionals with students to share career experiences through an identity-related lens....

Career development professionals (CDPs) are privileged with the responsibility of advising, coaching, and supporting people who are seeking direction to manage their career and employment goals. This is an awesome...

According to the United Nations (2011), women are underrepresented not only as voters and as elected officials, but also in leadership roles in the private sector, civil service and in...

“Tell me about yourself.” For many career practitioners, that statement is the starting point of the client-counsellor relationship. For career coaching to be effective, it is important to know a...

“Students these days…” This is a common lament of post-secondary career development practitioners as we try to figure out, how do we engage this generation of students? How do we...

The challenges trans and non-binary people may face at work, as well as practices that facilitate their professional integration....

According to the United Nations (2016), female students are significantly less likely to graduate with a degree in the sciences than their male counterparts; as of 2017, women represented only...

It should have been a day like any other. But when George McKenzie, then 21, woke up, something didn’t feel right. “My tongue was all cottony and I actually wondered...