Tips & Training

After seven years away, it was good to come home to Cannexus, Canada's National Career Development Conference, and spend a few days learning and sharing with my fellow career professionals....

Whether you want to watch them yourself or share them with a client or colleague, these webinars offer learning opportunities on an array of subjects. If you can’t make the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...