Career Professionals of Canada News Feed
By Lori Jazvac. Your client has recently landed a new customer service role after you created a stellar résumé portfolio and provided career coaching. She established a nice rapport with the employer at the interview and is now eager to start her new job. She’s full of enthusiasm, excitement, and optimism. A few days pass, and then weeks. Your client, slowly and reluctantly, begins to notice that the job and the company fail to align with claims the employer made during the interview – claims that this was an 8-to-4…
By Cathy Milton. Maureen McCann has really started a trend at CPC. She’s got us talking about the future of work. It’s an exciting conversation to be having. Yes, there are many potentially scary unknowns, but there is also the potential for many exciting new possibilities. If you talk to friends and family about what the future world of work will look like, you may discover that many automatically adopt the “doom-and-gloom” approach. Fanciful ideas abound about automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics and how they seem poised to push human…
By Lori Jazvac. Accomplishments represent career story generators, brand builders, conversation starters, self-esteem boosters, and even life-altering game-changers for many jobseekers. Accomplishments are the most critical part of a résumé, yet jobseekers often underestimate their importance. Duties-and-responsibilities résumés rarely make the cut. A résumé can quickly be screened out by an employer if it fails to emphasize what sets the candidate apart or fails to demonstrate value through accomplishments. The key to uncovering accomplishments during the résumé building process involves asking the right questions, actively listening to your client’s career…
By Cathy Milton. Maureen McCann’s recent post about the future of work highlighted the thought that career development professionals owe it to their clients to develop strategies for navigating the increasingly-automated world of work. On March 5th, 2019, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Economics released a report titled Advantage women: how an automated future could play to women’s strengths describing how technological disruption will impact women in the labour force. The bank’s analysis shows that women are at greater risk as they hold more than half of Canadian jobs facing an elevated…
By Maureen McCann. Whether you’re a career practitioner in private practice, in a not-for-profit agency, or in a for-profit company, you owe it to yourself to conduct regular self-reflection sessions about your work life satisfaction. After all, we do spend a lot of time occupied in our chosen professions. Why not make that time as fulfilling as possible? Here are 10 tips for improving your work life. Strengthen your boundaries – Set firmer rules for yourself about your working hours, what you’re willing to accept and what you are not. You’ll…
By Maureen McCann. This is a synopsis of a TED Talk presented in Toronto in October 2018. The speaker is Boston Consulting Group’s Julia Dhar. It’s probably an understatement to say that in the latter part of this decade, the media has been bombarding us daily with polarizing politics. Before you know it we’re picking sides on issues while thinking that “the other guy” is clueless about what’s really at stake. Media, and how we absorb and react to it, has a direct link to our view of the world…