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Finding sustainable employment is one of the greatest challenges many immigrants and refugees face when establishing their life in a new country. Even credentialed professionals can struggle due to lack...

The changing perception of higher education institutions, from being hubs of intellectualism to centres of human capital development, has led to an increased emphasis on setting graduate employability as a strategic goal of higher education.    However, graduate...

The return-to-work transition from maternity leave can be a stressful one. Adjusting to a new routine of drop-offs at childcare, commuting, settling back into a work environment and the emotional...

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...

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...

Since 1975, I have been studying and working on career questions. Now retired, I want to draw attention to some insights that arose from these 45 years. Problems in career...

Internationally trained immigrants come to Canada looking for a better future, at a personal and professional level. But it’s not always easy to successfully integrate and build a life here....

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld walks into a car rental agency to pick up a car he reserved only to learn that the agency didn’t hold a car for him. Jerry famously...

Career genograms are a specific type of genogram, which have been used extensively in family system therapy. The purpose of a career genogram is to look at established career patterns,...

Imagine this scenario: A middle-aged Indigenous woman named Julie walks into a store to apply for a service job, one for which she knows she has little experience. Julie’s career...