Client Side: I had my career mapped out – until a new experience opened my eyes
Faith Jensen had long planned to be a small-animal vet, but classes and work-integrated learning exposed exciting alternative pathways....
Pulse Survey: How Career Advisor Marina Hai 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...
Pulse Survey: How Experiential Learning Co-ordinator Dan Walters 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...
Laurier certificate connects volunteerism to students’ personal and professional development
At Wilfrid Laurier University, experiential learning is at the core of what we do. It provides an opportunity for students to apply knowledge and skills in authentic contexts, while engaging...
Principles in Action: Shattering the career path myth lowers students’ anxiety about the future
Career development means making the most of talent and potential, however you define growth and success – not necessarily linear advancement....
Infographic: COVID-19 and Canada’s post-secondary students
Infographic: COVID-19 and Canada’s post-secondary students....
10 tips for building a well-developed online career course
Let’s move the course online. How many times have you heard that? Prior to COVID-19, online course development was a bit taboo – moving courses online required time and planning....
A story of land-based learning: Immersive camp builds student skills, confidence
Land-based learning takes the classroom out onto the land, creating experiential learning opportunities that focus on practical skills development and transformative understandings of the natural world. This is not a...
Helping students connect to the three worlds during their COVID-19 job search
Uncertainty has always been part of career planning, but this has become a much greater and more immediate challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a Career Counsellor in a university...
CERIC announces award of project to examine foundational skills in Grades 4-6
CERIC’s Career Development in Children: Identifying Critical Success Conditions and Strategies project has been awarded to an international team of academic researchers led by Dr Lorraine Godden, Ironwood Consulting and Carleton University;...