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....
Leading through COVID: Navigating ups and downs at a non-profit career organization
COVID-19 has rocked the world in ways no one could have imagined and has significantly changed the way in which we act and interact with one another and our communities....
Pulse Survey: How Employment Services Manager Carter Hammett 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...
Cannabis legalization demands creative career services response in BC Interior
In the ‘champagne region’ of marijuana cultivation, legal changes present opportunity for career professionals to connect with resilient but reticent jobseekers....
Public, private, and civil society sector collaboration: Essential components of Canada’s future prosperity
A tale of one community’s life-changing adaptation through innovation and co-operation....
The aging workforce: Sustaining motivation and engagement amid COVID-19
Aging populations and workforce skills gaps are global challenges, not unique to Canada (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2018; United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division,...
The role of career practitioners in envisioning a ‘new normal’
After the COVID-19 crisis sent many people home to work, or forced them home through furloughs or layoffs, there is now a strong appetite in many to “return to normal.”...