You’re not alone in languishing – but you don’t have to stay there
How are you feeling these days? Has the pandemic left you feeling energetic, optimistic and refreshed? If so, you’re in a fortunate and very small minority. For most people, the...
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It’s time for a UN International Day of Careers and Livelihood
In our work helping clients with their career development and decision making, we often pose questions to help them take small, compounding actions that generate momentum, confidence and personal agency:...
Review: Oxford Handbook of Career Development a thought-provoking, enjoyable read
Research in career development not only builds on theoretical approaches for evidence-based practice and interventions, but deepens our understanding of how career development has the potential to make the world...
Evidence-based storytelling and the value of career services
Many career professionals are drawn to our field because we enjoy listening to clients’ stories. We help clients overcome struggles that are accompanied by feelings of confusion, depression and stress....
It’s time we listen to what women need to thrive at work
Government, businesses and society have an opportunity like never before to rebuild systems of work that function better for women – if we choose to. The COVID-19 pandemic revealed just...
Guided Pathways: Integrating essential skills into careers work
The renewed essential skills framework from Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) – now retitled Skills for Success – outlines the foundational and transferable skills required to engage, adapt and...
Help clients develop a calling – instead of waiting for it to find them
“What do you want to be when you grow up?” is the daunting question that all of us have been asked at least once in our lives. The unease it...
The journey for a professional ethical identity
I entered a helping profession to help individuals and their families create better lives for themselves. I expected to act ethically with knowledge of and adherence to the Code of...
Students need to look beyond job titles to find opportunity
As Shakespeare put it in Romeo and Juliet, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." So it is with...
Ethical risk management and co-op in a changing world
Practitioners engaged in Canadian post-secondary co-operative education programs regularly encounter ethical risk involving key stakeholders – co-op students, employers and the higher-education institution (HEI). Risk can seem minimal, such as...