Career Professionals of Canada News Feed
By Carrie Wakeford. A personal website is like an online résumé, C.V. or career portfolio, located at www.yourname.com. A personal website will help you build and manage your personal brand on the web. Because the business world has moved online, this step is critical for business professionals, entrepreneurs and job seekers. In fact we already know that many professionals are already taking steps to manage their online presence. A personal website can help you manage your career, communicate with your customers and clients, and secure proposals. It means you will…
The Career Thought Leaders’ 2013 Global Career Brainstorming Day included more than 150 career professionals from Canada, United States, and overseas. During live and virtual sessions, practitioners discussed existing and upcoming trends facing the career industry. The resulting report is a rich source of “insider” industry intelligence for practitioners. These are some of the findings from the report reproduced, with permission, from the Career Thought Leaders: Job seekers need and welcome guidance in today’s evolving career scenarios. From creating branded resumes and ATS-optimized documents to knowing how to use different…
By Sharon Graham. Career Development Practice in Canada: Perspectives, Principles, and Professionalism is an essential resource for career development professionals. This uniquely Canadian textbook, published by CERIC, is a comprehensive single-source reference for career practitioners. Built on the guiding principles outlined in the Canadian Standards and Guidelines for Career Development Practitioners, this book provides a broad foundational overview of the field. Using several concrete examples, it emphasizes the application of best practices. Designed primarily as a learning tool for students and a resource for educators, the book discusses theories, models, practices,…
Change – one of the most complex topics that we deal with when counselling clients or when we need to attend to this in our own life. The most difficult things when dealing with change are deciding when to start, where to go, and how we are going to achieve success. From time to time, we choose to change and at other times, change chooses us. One thing is a certainty however – nothing ever stays the same forever. Recently, I have had a few clients that seem more “stuck”…
By Stephanie Clark. When I was a high schooler, I recall hearing that by the year 2000 (it seemed so very far off at that time!), we would all be working 4-day work weeks as there wouldn’t be enough jobs to go around. I feel short-changed! Not only are we not working part time hours, some people find it necessary to work a full time and part time job to make ends meet! Somewhere something went awry! Here’s a link to an interesting infographic titled “The Hidden Benefits of Part-Time…
As career professionals, we all need to keep vigilant and focused on our future and that of our employees, colleagues, and clients. Security, privacy, ethics, transformation, knowledge, and health are at the top of every progressive organization’s wish list. Moreover, if we want to deliver, our employees must become unsurpassed careerpreneurs. Career Professionals of Canada researched a wide variety of Canadian career trends for the development of their most recent certification program, the Certified Employment Strategist (CES). What we found is that the permanent job, for the most part, is a thing…