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As career development professionals, we are used to working with students, jobseekers and workers to help them navigate their career paths and develop “road maps” to get them to their...

If we want to create holistic, impactful career education programs for schools, then we need to bring teachers along for the ride. Teachers are the ones on the front lines,...

Many people recoil when they hear the word networking. They associate it with using people/relationships to get an outcome. That doesn’t sit well with most people – nor should it....

Career services is a largely referral-dependent business. The more you are known and visible in the field, the easier it is to have client prospects. Referrals come to us through...

The climate crisis and the resulting beliefs about it can easily inspire meaningful action but can also elicit despair and hopelessness. In previous writing on closing the hope gap, I...

Two people arrive at a party. One, happy to have the chance to meet many new people, strides in and joins the nearest group. The other beelines for a quiet...

If every employer responded to an employee’s disability disclosure with complete and utter acceptance and a quick approval of accommodations, the decision to share a diagnosis would be a no-brainer....

We hear it all the time: there are labour shortages everywhere. And yet, there is also a whole segment of Canadian society who have career aspirations but are either unemployed...

While it has been shown that it is easier to keep people in employment than to bring them back into the labour market once they are retired, it remains to...

Through various pathways, Canada has welcomed more than 150,000 arrivals from Ukraine and 27,000 from Afghanistan since 2022. The ongoing crises in both countries, and similar challenges elsewhere around the...