Career Professionals of Canada News Feed
By Cathy Milton. As part of Career Professionals of Canada’s “Future of CPC” initiative, we’re pleased to announce the launch of CPC Tip Sheets. Tip Sheets are created by members and friends of Career Professionals of Canada, and each one delivers helpful and informative tips on a wide variety of topics. Tip Sheets can be found under the “Resources” tab of the CPC members-only Career Club. Over time, our library of tips will expand. The sheets you’ll find in the Career Club today have been contributed by facilitators of our…
By Donna Norcott. I don’t know if this is something unique to me, but even though I don’t have children, I love the back-to-school season! The colourful binders, notebooks, and new pens and pencils inspire my creativity and I look forward to “sweater weather” as being an ideal time to reflect, reorganize, and turn a fresh, new page for a season of setting (and re-setting) goals! This is the time of year when I conduct a holistic assessment of myself, my career path, and my private practice. I take a hard…
By Skye Berry-Burke. The other day, while visiting my child’s pediatrician, I saw an article about the “8 Keys of Excellence” for making great kids greater. Five of these “keys” were immediately etched in my mind and I continued to think about how these principles for achieving excellence apply to all of us – young and old, career pros and our clients. As a new school year approaches, many people – whether they are students or not – view this time as an opportunity to focus on professional and personal…
By Sharon Graham. It is my pleasure to announce Career Professionals of Canada’s 2019 Awards of Excellence Program recipients. This year’s competition proved rigorous with 50 candidates selected from all the submissions received. I’d like to offer special thanks to our 2019 team of judges who were presented with the difficult challenge of selecting the recipients this year – this was not an easy task! CPC’s membership comprises some of the very best in our profession. Please do send your congratulations to this year’s Awards of Excellence winners, honourable mentions, and nominees!…
By Kevin Waldbillig. I know that a happy and fulfilling career change is possible. I know this to be true because I’ve experienced it first-hand. Don’t think, though, that the change transpired without some feelings of fear and reluctance. Let me give you the background of how I came to seek out the services of a skilled and supportive career counsellor and the resulting transformation of my career path. I’m on the cusp of what society calls either a “baby boomer” or a “Gen Xer”. In my formative work years,…
By Cathy Milton. The future of work is changing and so are we! 2020 is just around the corner and we’ve got your back. As a member of Canada’s only national career development association, you will have certainly noticed that Career Professionals of Canada is interested in – and excited about – the opportunities created by the future world of work. In fact, it’s become a recurring theme. Excitement about the changing landscape of work motived us to look internally and launch an initiative to transform Career Professionals of Canada. The goal of the…