Career Professionals of Canada News Feed
By Marian Bernard. Organization can make the difference between impressing potential clients as a consummate professional or coming across as an amateur. We can inspire utmost confidence or instigate lack of trust. Our organizational skills will ultimately contribute to losing most prospects or landing more clients. Career Professionals discussed organizational tools, processes, and procedures at this month’s professional member tele-networking session. By organizing your clients’ details and documents, you can stay on top of multi-faceted or concurrent projects, and save time, earn money, and serve clients well. CPC member, Stephanie Clark…
By Sharon Graham. As an independent career practitioner, you advise, guide, and support your clients through complex career situations. Counselling clients through their career development can be challenging; even with your best effort, outcomes are not always predictable or positive. Professional liability insurance can protect you from any potential losses by minimizing the financial consequences of any legal action. Across Canada, clients are becoming increasingly aware of their own legal rights. In the past, people were reluctant to litigate. The climate in our labour market is changing. Clients are becoming…
By Skye Berry-Burke. As resume writers, interview coaches, and employment consultants, we support clients every day. Providing similar advice to them each day, it might be easy to forget how overwhelming a job search can be for them. Many clients come to us seeking a resume or a LinkedIn profile compilation, or interview coaching and we happily oblige and provide them with the best service we can provide. We go above and beyond to produce documents that will get results and provide coaching that will assist them in landing the job…
By Janet Barclay. You’ve finally got your website updated and started blogging, and now everyone’s saying you need to be on Twitter! Monitoring your new followers, looking for people to follow, reading and responding to their tweets, and posting your own could easily take several hours per week! How on earth are you supposed to fit that into your already busy schedule? Twitter is great for building relationships that lead to business opportunities, but because it can be quite addictive, it’s easy to get sidetracked and lose track of time.…
By Janet Barclay. To be a successful resume writer, career coach, or employment consultant, you need knowledge, a passion for imparting that knowledge to others, and basic business skills. Today I’m happy to share my top tips to help you start and grow a successful business. 1. Get your own website Getting listed on online directories and/or creating social media profiles is better than having no online presence at all, but it’s far more effective to have your own website. While third-party sites can help to connect you with potential clients, your…
By Sharon Graham. As our career development sector continues to go through changes, many practitioners are re-thinking their career path and prospects. Many government-funded contracts are winding down and organizations are restructuring their operations. Some practitioners are nervous about their future and considering entrepreneurial options. With over 17 million Canadians working today, independent career service providers are benefiting from a positive shift in the market. Because our labour market has changed tremendously over the last decades, many proactive Canadians are seeking out résumé writers, employment consultants, career counsellors, and career…