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Britt-Mari Sykes PhD is a Career Counsellor and founder of Canvas Career Counselling. Based in Ottawa, Britt-Mari works online, which gives her the opportunity to collaborate with clients of varying ages and stages of life and career from across Canada. Drawn to career counselling by a fascination with the personal life-long relationship we develop with work and career, Britt-Mari believes this relationship reflects our deep yearnings to live with purpose, meaning, and dignity. It reflects our desire for affiliation and contribution; our desire for self-expression and for growth. Committed to life-long…
Are you torn about how to price your career services? Are you afraid of pricing too low or too high and ending up frustrated? Pricing is a delicate issue that many practitioners struggle with when it comes to offering career services to the public. I would like to share some insights and tactics—gathered from the 2022 CPC Mastermind Mentoring Group—to help you decide on pricing strategies for your entrepreneurial career service. Check the prices of other career professionals and determine the income you want to make. There are plenty of…
Lama Shaath is a Career Development Practitioner (CDP), Certified Career Strategist (CCS), Certified Work-Life Strategist (CWS), Certified Transformational Coach, and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Practitioner. Combined with her complementary experience in the health, fitness, and well-being industry, Lama has more than 17 years of experience. She is the creator and founder of Lama Shaath Mine Your Inner Power Coaching. Passionate about helping top performers unlock their superpower, Lama helps them gain confidence and reinvent themselves from the inside out during career-work-life transitions. She guides clients toward resilience, triumph, and healing by creating…
As career professionals, many of us have experienced toxic work environments firsthand, or we may have helped our clients deal with the fallout of toxic environments. Such a scenario can cause undue stress on us, our co-workers, and other people we deal with. In turn, it can negatively influence our attitudes toward people and work in general, and may even affect our personal lives. In this article, we’ll explore what a toxic work environment looks like and how we can help our clients deal with the situation. What is a Toxic Work…
Kamee Gilmore is the Principal Career Development Practitioner (CDP) and owner of Paradigm Solutions, an active member of Career Professionals of Canada (CPC) since 2016, and a CPC Awards of Excellence adjudicator since 2021. In her private practice, Kamee provides a full scope of career services and solutions to help ambitious mid-level professionals and aspiring C-suite business leaders get noticed so they can land the opportunities they deserve. Committed to staying at the forefront of the rapidly evolving careers industry, and to ensure she is providing her clients with the most…
Many people think of The Great Resignation as being a one-time event—albeit an extended event—that started and was fuelled by the global pandemic in early 2020. With the “end” of the pandemic slowly gaining a foothold, these same people might say that The Great Resignation is over. Yet, the truth is the trend may not be at its end just yet; instead, it will likely continue to evolve and have significant and lasting consequences. People continue to quit their jobs in huge numbers, which is forcing employers to rethink and…