COVID-19 reveals opportunities and challenges in online learning
With nearly 70% of students being affected by the COVID-19 crisis worldwide, education looks very different than it did at the beginning of 2020. In Canada alone, over 6.6 million...
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Black lives matter, black careers matter
Career is how individuals build their lives, find their way through education, into work, provide for their families and so on. All of this requires some kind of level of...
Dear White People: Here Are 10 Actions You Can Take To Promote Racial Justice At Work
It’s critically important that kids begin to learn about issues of race and equity early (in an age appropriate manner) so they can begin to develop their own awareness of...
How technology can support career professionals in addressing social justice issues
Virtual tools such as gamification can help bring personalized career development to underserved populations....
What We Lose When We Go From the Classroom to Zoom
Equality in the classroom is a fiction — it would be absurd to suggest otherwise. When we pretend such inequities don’t exist, we allow them to persist unchallenged. But like...
Why a social justice informed approach to career guidance matters right now
Not only do governments need to recognize this is a critical time to support career guidance, argue Tristram Hooley, Ronald Sultana and Rie Thomsen, this is also a time when...
A millennial’s plea for broader conversations on intersectionality
“Students these days…” This is a common lament of post-secondary career development practitioners as we try to figure out, how do we engage this generation of students? How do we...