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Maureen Farmer is CEO and Founder of Westgate Executive Branding and Career Consulting. Maureen leads a successful career development and executive leadership optimization firm with a major emphasis on executive branding. She recently launched WordRightCareer.com (a Westgate brand) to support members of the careers industry worldwide. Maureen earned the 2021 Career Leader of the Year Award with CPC and the 2022 Career Innovator Award with Career Directors International. She is also a proud long-time member of CPC and conceived and established our new member of the week program. CPC Members…
As Career Professionals of Canada embarks on its first fiscal year as Canada’s national, not-for-profit career development association, members of the board of directors share their thoughts about CPC’s bright future. Dorothy Keenan This is the start of a new chapter for Career Professionals of Canada! CPC continues to evolve and grow. I became a member in 2014, and at that time, we had 350 members; now we are on the cusp of having 1000 members. What an achievement! As of December 1, 2022, CPC officially started its first fiscal…
On July 1, 2004, I founded Career Professionals of Canada (CPC) with a big dream. I hoped to develop a national association that would support career professionals from coast-to-coast-to-coast. On Canada Day 2022 we were thrilled to re-introduce CPC as a not-for-profit corporation. This December will mark the start of our first full fiscal year and the beginning of a new chapter for CPC. We have finalized the transfer of all business assets to our new not-for-profit association. CPC members are always at the heart of everything we do, and…
It is my pleasure to announce Career Professionals of Canada’s 2022 Awards of Excellence Program recipients. I’d like to offer special thanks to our 2022 team of judges who were presented with the difficult challenge of selecting the winners, honourable mentions, and nominees this year — this was not an easy task! With our new guidelines in place for the 2022 awards program, the bar was raised. Still, the competition proved rigorous as we received 46 submissions to evaluate. CPC’s membership comprises some of the very best in our profession.…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Career Professionals of Canada Announces New Not-For-Profit Association Canada’s largest national non-profit association for Career Development Professionals. New Hamburg, Ontario, July 1, 2022 – Career Professionals of Canada (CPC) today announced the creation of a new not-for-profit association for the career development sector, becoming Canada’s first national association supporting Career Development Professionals from coast-to-coast-to-coast. “CPC is a caring and sharing community of career professionals. We are excited to re-introduce our association to the sector as a not-for-profit organization. This move positions CPC to be a national leader…
I have been a member of the judging team for Career Professionals of Canada’s Awards of Excellence (AoE) program for 10 years now. It is always an exciting and interesting experience. It’s inspiring to see the résumés submitted by talented writers and to learn about the exceptional client-focused work being done by outstanding career development practitioners nominated in the professional categories. The July 1st deadline for submissions to the 2022 awards may seem a long way off, but it will be here before we know it. To encourage and hopefully…