Ditch the resume to find job candidates with passion
We cannot solely rely on resumes to qualify potential employees. I would argue that even if a candidate's past experience or education does not align with the position, you may...
Career and mental health: Addressing the false dichotomy
Mental health and access to meaningful employment are inextricably linked. In fact, career counselling and development are mental health interventions. Our sense of identity, meaning, purpose, and livelihood, are directly...
Andrea Fruhling: ‘We’re in a field that has so much potential’
How many times have you asked a client to be courageous? To try something new? Suddenly, as career professionals, we too find ourselves in a place of uncertainty. We’re working...
Enhancing your work-life wellness through uncertain times
How would your life improve if you understood the ways your work is affecting your personal life? COVID-19 has shone a light on the challenges many of us encounter in...
Laval University’s André Raymond appointed as Chair of CERIC Board
CERIC is pleased to announce André Raymond, CRHA, as the new Chair of its Board of Directors for a two-year term. Raymond, Director of both Career Services and Continuing Education at...
Growing food, growing futures: Gardengate program shows power of purpose
A sense of purpose can improve your mental health. Purpose can help with motivation, confidence, inter-personal skills, time management, presentation and problem solving. Purpose can help you work harder or...
Case Study: Employment fit and friction in a rural creative enterprise
In this recurring Careering feature, career professionals share their real-life solutions to common problems in the field....
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...
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...
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....