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I recently facilitated a workshop to support employment counsellors working with clients who are frustrated and discouraged by a lengthy job search. I asked the group, “Imagine we are building...

The career development field is facing challenges in hiring career development practitioners (CDPs) who possess digital literacy, appropriate skillsets, and relevant qualifications or training, according to CERIC’s 2024 Survey of...

In today's fast-paced and ever-evolving job market, navigating a career can feel like sailing through uncharted waters. The Career Sailboat Model (CSM), developed by Korkut-Owen et al., (2014; 2023), offers...

In recent years, how people get hired has started to change. Many employers are no longer just looking at resumes. Instead, they are paying closer attention to skills – what...

You were excited when HR reached out: “We’d like to consider you for an internal role.”  You prepped hard, nailed the interviews and felt confident walking out.  Then the call...

This article was originally published on CharityVillage and has been reprinted with permission.  In my role as a career practitioner working with newcomers to Canada, it’s essential for me to...

In the chaos of 2020, I had one of those now-or-never moments. The world was shifting fast, and I could feel myself changing, too. Like so many others, I started...

It had been nine months since my husband lost his job, and we were still reeling from that when I learned my own work contract would end in three months....

Conversations around life transitions are a key component of the career development process. Whether our clients are young adults overwhelmed by options, caregivers juggling the demands of children and elderly...

For many first-generation professionals, immigrants and people of colour, entering professional spaces means walking into worlds where the unwritten rules weren't passed down to us. Our parents couldn't teach us...