CPC Awards of Excellence
CPC is now accepting Awards of Excellence submissions for 2021
Get your submission in before the July 1, 2021 deadline.
Step 1 – Review and select up to 3 categories (below).
Step 2 – Read and follow the submission procedures exactly.
Step 3 – Complete one nomination submission form for each nomination.
Award nominees and recipients are announced in September.
Career Professionals of Canada is committed to setting the standard for excellence in our field. Recognizing outstanding individuals in our profession is one of our most important activities.
Active Members of Career Professionals of Canada in good standing are eligible to strive for our prestigious CPC Awards of Excellence in the following categories:
This award recognizes outstanding contributions to the advancement of career development in Canada by a prominent leader within the profession.
Submission Checklist:
- Professional Membership:
- Ensure your professional membership with Career Professionals of Canada is current, you have checked the ethics statement on your profile, and you are in good standing with CPC.
- Nomination Package:
- Prepare a complete nomination package for a successful submission.
- Submit a 500-word statement outlining the reason for nomination. You must demonstrate work experience supporting clients in career development, employment consulting, work-life coaching, or a related area.
- You must show that you have made an exceptional and profound impact on the Canadian career development field in a prominent leadership role. Examples: You have issued a noteworthy paper or publication, have instituted a significant innovation, were instrumental in pioneering a new strategy or approach, and/or have delivered tangible and documented volunteer, public service, humanitarian, or have made charitable efforts that have significantly impacted the field.
- Include additional supporting documents (maximum 5 pages). This may include a sample of documented examples, your résumé, stakeholder testimonials, handouts for clients, and/or coaching/consulting process outline.
- Submission:
- Create one .pdf file by merging your statement and supporting documents into one document.
- Complete the Awards of Excellence Nomination Form and upload your .pdf file.
This award recognizes outstanding achievements by a practitioner providing clients with strategic career development support services.
Submission Checklist:
- Professional Membership:
- Ensure your professional membership with Career Professionals of Canada is current, you have checked the ethics statement on your profile, and you are in good standing with CPC.
- Nomination Package:
- Prepare a complete nomination package for a successful submission.
- Submit a 500-word statement outlining the reason for nomination. You must demonstrate work experience supporting clients in career development, employment consulting, or a related area. You must show that you have produced a tangible contribution to your employer, organization, business, and/or clients.
- Include additional supporting documents (maximum 5 pages). This may include a sample of documented examples, your résumé, stakeholder testimonials, handouts for clients, and/or coaching/consulting process outline.
- Submission:
- Create one .pdf file by merging your statement and supporting documents into one document.
- Complete the Awards of Excellence Nomination Form and upload your .pdf file.
This award recognizes outstanding achievements by a practitioner providing community outreach related to career development.
Submission Checklist:
- Professional Membership:
- Ensure your professional membership with Career Professionals of Canada is current, you have checked the ethics statement on your profile, and you are in good standing with CPC.
- Nomination Package:
- Prepare a complete nomination package for a successful submission.
- Submit a 500-word statement outlining the reason for nomination. You must demonstrate work experience in community outreach, job development, resource development, stakeholder engagement or a related area. You must show that you have produced a tangible contribution to your employer, organization, business, and/or clients.
- Include additional supporting documents (maximum 5 pages). This may include a sample of documented examples, your résumé, stakeholder testimonials, handouts for clients, and/or coaching/consulting process outline.
- Submission:
- Create one .pdf file by merging your statement and supporting documents into one document.
- Complete the Awards of Excellence Nomination Form and upload your .pdf file.
This award recognizes outstanding achievements by a practitioner providing clients with social media support related to career development.
Submission Checklist:
- Professional Membership:
- Ensure your professional membership with Career Professionals of Canada is current, you have checked the ethics statement on your profile, and you are in good standing with CPC.
- Nomination Package:
- Prepare a complete nomination package for a successful submission.
- Submit a 500-word statement outlining the reason for nomination. You must demonstrate work experience in social media (i.e. LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Google+), virtual profiles, blogging, online branding, social networking, and/or a related area. You must show that you have produced a tangible contribution to your employer, organization, business, and/or clients.
- Include additional supporting documents (maximum 5 pages). This may include hyperlinks to social media sites, campaign analytics, and/or endorsements/testimonials supporting the nomination. For example, you might include hyperlinks to a LinkedIn Profile, LinkedIn Group, Website, Blog, Twitter Campaign, Facebook Update, and/or Google Drive Working Document.
- Submission:
- Create one .pdf file by merging your statement and supporting documents into one document.
- Complete the Awards of Excellence Nomination Form and upload your .pdf file.
This award recognizes outstanding achievements by a practitioner providing clients with strategic employment interview support services.
Submission Checklist:
- Professional Membership:
- Ensure your professional membership with Career Professionals of Canada is current, you have checked the ethics statement on your profile, and you are in good standing with CPC.
- Nomination Package:
- Prepare a complete nomination package for a successful submission.
- Submit a 500-word statement outlining the reason for nomination. You must demonstrate work experience in employment interview coaching, employment interview consulting, or a related area. You must show that you have produced a tangible contribution to your employer, organization, business, and/or clients.
- Include additional supporting documents (maximum 5 pages). This may include a sample of documented examples, your résumé, stakeholder testimonials, handouts for clients, and/or coaching/consulting process outline.
- Submission:
- Create one .pdf file by merging your statement and supporting documents into one document.
- Complete the Awards of Excellence Nomination Form and upload your .pdf file.
This award recognizes outstanding résumé writing for internationally educated professionals, such that set the writer and/or strategist apart from other contributors. The candidate must demonstrate experience developing and creating résumés for international entrants to the Canadian market that exceed current industry standards.
Submission Checklist:
- Professional Membership:
- Ensure your professional membership with Career Professionals of Canada is current, you have checked the ethics statement on your profile, and you are in good standing with CPC.
- Sample Résumé:
- Submit one IEP résumé sample that you have developed without any assistance from others.
- Fictionalize your résumé sample (using your own name in the header) to protect the privacy and confidentiality of your client and anyone else who might be identified. If you are including a résumé sample that cannot be sufficiently fictionalized, obtain approval from anyone who can be identified.
- Strategy Statement:
- Provide rationalization of your strategy in developing the résumé in a 500-word statement.
- Discuss how you addressed the international entrant in all aspects of the résumé: value proposition, structure, design, spelling, grammar, and handling of obstacles.
- Submission:
- Create one .pdf file by merging the Sample Résumé and Strategy Statement into one document.
- Complete the Awards of Excellence Nomination Form and upload your .pdf file.
This award recognizes outstanding résumé writing for early-career new graduates and entry-level clients, such that set the writer and/or strategist apart from other contributors. The candidate must demonstrate experience developing and creating résumés for new entrants that exceed current industry standards.
Submission Checklist:
- Professional Membership:
- Ensure your professional membership with Career Professionals of Canada is current, you have checked the ethics statement on your profile, and you are in good standing with CPC.
- Sample Résumé:
- Submit one new graduate/entry-level professional résumé sample that you have developed without any assistance from others.
- Fictionalize your résumé sample (using your own name in the header) to protect the privacy and confidentiality of your client and anyone else who might be identified. If you are including a résumé sample that cannot be sufficiently fictionalized, obtain approval from anyone who can be identified.
- Strategy Statement:
- Provide rationalization of your strategy in developing the résumé in a 500-word statement.
- Discuss how you addressed the new entrant in all aspects of the résumé: value proposition, structure, design, spelling, grammar, and handling of obstacles.
- Submission:
- Create one .pdf file by merging the Sample Résumé and Strategy Statement into one document.
- Complete the Awards of Excellence Nomination Form and upload your .pdf file.
This award recognizes outstanding career-change résumé writing abilities, such that set the writer and/or strategist apart from other contributors. The candidate must demonstrate experience developing and creating career change résumés that exceed current industry standards.
Submission Checklist:
- Professional Membership:
- Ensure your professional membership with Career Professionals of Canada is current, you have checked the ethics statement on your profile, and you are in good standing with CPC.
- Sample Résumé:
- Submit one career change résumé sample that you have developed without any assistance from others.
- Fictionalize your résumé sample (using your own name in the header) to protect the privacy and confidentiality of your client and anyone else who might be identified. If you are including a résumé sample that cannot be sufficiently fictionalized, obtain approval from anyone who can be identified.
- Strategy Statement:
- Provide rationalization of your strategy in developing the résumé in a 500-word statement.
- Discuss how you addressed the career change in all aspects of the résumé: value proposition, structure, design, spelling, grammar, and handling of obstacles.
- Submission:
- Create one .pdf file by merging the Sample Résumé and Strategy Statement into one document.
- Complete the Awards of Excellence Nomination Form and upload your .pdf file.
This award recognizes outstanding résumé writing for technical professionals, such that set the writer and/or strategist apart from other contributors. The candidate must demonstrate experience developing and creating résumés for technical professionals that exceed current industry standards. that exceed current industry standards.
Submission Checklist:
- Professional Membership:
- Ensure your professional membership with Career Professionals of Canada is current, you have checked the ethics statement on your profile, and you are in good standing with CPC.
- Sample Résumé:
- Submit one technical résumé sample that you have developed without any assistance from others.
- Fictionalize your résumé sample (using your own name in the header) to protect the privacy and confidentiality of your client and anyone else who might be identified. If you are including a résumé sample that cannot be sufficiently fictionalized, obtain approval from anyone who can be identified.
- Strategy Statement:
- Provide rationalization of your strategy in developing the résumé in a 500-word statement.
- Discuss how you represented the technical professional in all aspects of the résumé: value proposition, structure, design, spelling, grammar, and handling of obstacles.
- Submission:
- Create one .pdf file by merging the Sample Résumé and Strategy Statement into one document.
- Complete the Awards of Excellence Nomination Form and upload your .pdf file.
This award recognizes outstanding executive résumé writing abilities, such that set the writer and/or strategist apart from other contributors. The candidate must demonstrate experience developing and creating executive résumés that exceed current industry standards.
Submission Checklist:
- Professional Membership:
- Ensure your professional membership with Career Professionals of Canada is current, you have checked the ethics statement on your profile, and you are in good standing with CPC.
- Sample Résumé:
- Submit one executive résumé sample that you have developed without any assistance from others.
- Fictionalize your résumé sample (using your own name in the header) to protect the privacy and confidentiality of your client and anyone else who might be identified. If you are including a résumé sample that cannot be sufficiently fictionalized, obtain approval from anyone who can be identified.
- Strategy Statement:
- Provide rationalization of your strategy in developing the résumé in a 500-word statement.
- Discuss how you represented the executive in all aspects of the résumé: value proposition, structure, design, spelling, grammar, and handling of obstacles.
- Submission:
- Create one .pdf file by merging the Sample Résumé and Strategy Statement into one document.
- Complete the Awards of Excellence Nomination Form and upload your .pdf file.
This award recognizes outstanding creative résumé writing abilities, such that set the writer and/or strategist apart from other contributors. The candidate must demonstrate experience developing and creating creative résumés that exceed current industry standards.
Submission Checklist:
- Professional Membership:
- Ensure your professional membership with Career Professionals of Canada is current, you have checked the ethics statement on your profile, and you are in good standing with CPC.
- Sample Résumé:
- Submit one creative résumé sample that you have developed without any assistance from others.
- Fictionalize your résumé sample (using your own name in the header) to protect the privacy and confidentiality of your client and anyone else who might be identified. If you are including a résumé sample that cannot be sufficiently fictionalized, obtain approval from anyone who can be identified.
- Strategy Statement:
- Provide rationalization of your strategy in developing the résumé in a 500-word statement.
- Discuss creativity in all aspects of the résumé: value proposition, structure, design, spelling, grammar, and handling of obstacles.
- Submission:
- Create one .pdf file by merging the Sample Résumé and Strategy Statement into one document.
- Complete the Awards of Excellence Nomination Form and upload your .pdf file.
The recipients of this award are selected at the discretion of our Executive Director and approved by the judging committee.
This award recognizes outstanding volunteer contributions to the development and support of Career Professionals of Canada by exhibiting such exceptional devotion of time, effort, thought, and action as to set them apart from other contributors.
The recipient must meet the following criteria:
- Is a current professional member, in good standing, of Career Professionals of Canada.
- Has provided a meaningful voluntary contribution to Career Professionals of Canada.
- Has provided outstanding volunteer support by contributing a minimum of 20 hours of dedicated service to CPC within a one-year period.