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At Career Professionals of Canada, Purposeful Kindness sits at the heart of everything we do. It guides how we support our members, build community, and approach our work as career development professionals. Purposeful Kindness was championed by CPC founder Sharon Graham, who recognized that while technical expertise is essential, it is often kindness, generosity, and genuine support that elevate both our profession and the communities we serve. Yet, despite it being one of our guiding values, we rarely stop to discuss what Purposeful Kindness means in our profession. At first…
For years, I believed I was supposed to discover one true calling. I searched for it anxiously through jobs, volunteer roles, creative pursuits, and eventually university in my forties. Whenever I found something I loved but could not imagine doing forever, I assumed it must not be “the one.” I worried about investing years into post-secondary education only to lose interest later. I looked at people who seemed to have a single, clear path and wondered why I could not settle so neatly into a single identity. Along the way,…
Career development has always been driven by a question. The question has evolved over time, and each evolution has represented a genuine attempt to better serve people. We are now ready for the next question. In the early days of publicly funded employment services — the 1980s, in my experience — the question was blunt and practical: What are you going to do? We handed people lists of available jobs and told them to get moving. I did this myself as a social worker with the BC Government. It was…
Olajumoke (Ola) Fatoki is the Founder and CEO of Thrive Careers Consulting, where she helps newcomers, internationally trained professionals, and career pivoters build careers that fit their lives, not just their résumés. Her guiding belief: hope is not a career strategy. A Career Development Professional and now a Certified Future Strategist (CFS), Ola pairs hands-on coaching with a clear-eyed view of where work is heading, including the rise of AI. She also hosts the award-winning Thrive Careers Podcast (Best Careers Podcaster, 2025 Women Podcasters Awards) and partners with the New…
When I started the Certified Future Strategist (CFS) course with CPC, I expected to learn about the future of work, labour market trends, technology, AI, and the many changes affecting careers today. And I did. But what surprised me most was not the information itself, but how much the course made me reflect on the way we support clients. As career professionals, we often work with people seeking answers. They want to know which career is safe, which program is best, which opportunity is worth pursuing, or what decision they…
Esmaeil Aghajari is a Work Readiness Counsellor with a Master of Education, specializing in helping newcomers navigate and thrive in the Canadian labour market. His background as a Certified Language Assessor provides him with a deep, technical understanding of Canadian Language Benchmark [CLB] frameworks and language barriers. Currently at the Regina Immigrant Women Centre, as a new career development practitioner, Esmaeil leverages his expertise in language assessment, interviewing, and teaching to provide holistic, individualized career counselling. From résumé writing and mock interviews to facilitating workshops on regulated careers and coping with…