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Traditional employment training focuses on developing and maintaining the necessary skills of employment such as cover letter and resume writing, interviewing skills, networking and career preparation. Coaching within this traditional...

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...

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:...

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...

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....

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...