The many hats I wear at CERIC’s Cannexus conference
At the end of January, I had the opportunity to attend Cannexus19, a national conference for career development professionals put on by CERIC. Despite being held at the end of...
Walk it out, talk it out: How walking sessions help millennials get unstuck
Have you ever taken your career practice for a walk? It’s widely known that our sedentary lives are hard on us – we’re sitting too much. Countless studies have also...
Michelle Obama’s Becoming has useful lessons for career development professionals
I have admired Michelle Obama for a long time – the epitome of grace under pressure in my view – and I was looking forward to reading her memoir Becoming...
Does theory matter to the practice of career development?
When I studied my first course in career development, I remember being overwhelmed by the number of – and variation in – career theories and doubting their utility. What I...
Fostering career agility in STEM
The number of disciplines and sub-disciplines in STEM already seems overwhelming and new fields continue to emerge. How can career development practitioners help their STEM clients navigate a diverse and...
What’s really going on? Using theory to better understand your clients
Career development professionals (CDPs) support diverse clients with a wide range of career-related concerns. They typically don’t have much time together, so it’s important to be able to quickly sort...
3 books on careers to curl up with this winter
Whether you're looking to upgrade your knowledge of career counselling, make a career pivot or help a client do the same, consider cracking open one of these recently published books....
Sustainable careers are built from experiential expertise
Career is a relationship with life and the world around us as much as it is a development of individual skills and expertise. How do we define “career” when job...
Career Theories and Models at Work: Ideas for Practice – now available!
CERIC’s new Career Theories and Models at Work book is available for purchase online now. This international collection features contemporary and emerging career development theories and models from 60 leading...