Review: Mental health guide a must-have for career practitioners
Strengthening Mental Health Through Career Development is one of the most promising and encouraging works to come into the field of career development in a very long time. This work...
Oil workers have key role to play in building clean energy future
Lliam Hildebrand used to work in Canada's oilsands. Now, he runs Iron & Earth, an organization that helps workers transfer their fossil fuel industry skills to renewable energy work....
Dear career professional: A self-care letter from your subconscious
Michelle Precourt and Wayne Pagani will be presenting at CERIC's Cannexus20 National Career Development Conference on “Yoga & You: Elevate Yourself and Your Clients.” They will share insights on how...
Infographic: What does the energy efficiency sector look like in Canada?
By the end of 2019, the energy efficiency workforce is expected to grow by 8.3%, creating over 36,000 jobs. Six key industries in energy efficiency: Construction Manufacturing Wholesale Trade Professional and Business Services Utilities ...
Career development and essential skills: How do they go together?
In 2017, Alberta Workforce Essential Skills Society (AWES) pitched a concept to the Government of Alberta to train career development practitioners to integrate the essential skills into their services. Through...
Growing knowledge, building community: Celebrating one year of CareerWise
When CERIC decided to turn the page on our ContactPoint website and reinvent it as the modern, content-based CareerWise, we knew we were asking readers to make a leap with...
Mapping soft skills for workforce engagement and retention
While the Canadian economy is growing rapidly, we are currently and for the foreseeable future facing a general labour shortage, with close to 40% of small and medium-sized businesses already...
The missing link: A pan-Canadian skills-mapping system is on the way
Social media manager, app developer, driverless car engineer and telemedicine physician: what do these jobs have in common? For one thing, none of them existed a decade ago. Although each...
Overwhelm and burnout – what’s the difference?
We are time-crunched and over-scheduled, with demands from our work and personal lives that can make us feel overwhelmed. Who hasn’t looked at their to-do list recently and thought “how...
10 Questions with Senator Murray Sinclair
Senator Murray Sinclair served the justice system in Manitoba for over 25 years. He was the first Aboriginal judge appointed in Manitoba and Canada’s second. He served as Co-Chair of...