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Mental health and mental illness are distinct entities, and knowing about and understanding this difference allows career development practitioners to better conceptualize and practice a dimension of mental health awareness...

Whether they’re being accused of killing whole industries or cheered for reducing the price of wine, there are a lot of “hot takes” about millennials and how, as a generation,...

There are a variety of reasons people leave jobs – bad fit, bad manager, new opportunity, mergers, downsizing, firing, restructuring. The bigger issue is not why, but how we leave,...

Last fall, I made the transition from being a Career Educator to a Learning Skills Specialist. What is a learning skill, you ask? You may have heard the motto “learning...

Discussions about the future of work in career development often focus on the outcomes of students and clients – the shifting labour reality, the skills they will need and the...

“Tell me about yourself.” For many career practitioners, that statement is the starting point of the client-counsellor relationship. For career coaching to be effective, it is important to know a...

Losing a job as the result of restructuring is a terrible experience and the stress people feel as a result can be debilitating. Often, employees are aware a round of...

Co-authored by Selen Demirtas-Zorbaz and Seval Kizildag-Sahin Can we control chance? The work of John Krumboltz, an established career theorist, suggests the answer is yes. Let’s consider the role of...

As interest in the “gig economy” continues to grow, more and more individuals are choosing short-term employment opportunities for career development. There is a widely held myth that the federal...

Strengthening Mental Health Through Career Development is one of the most promising and encouraging works to come into the field of career development in a very long time. This work...