Helping mature clients navigate job search trends
Career professionals have a broad range of tools for success when working with mature clients who have been in full-time management or administrative roles for 10+ years with the same...
CareerWise Weekly: Accessible learning | Targeted job search | Pandemic interviews – July 28, 2020
Seven Ways Career Development Can Help You And Others In Challenging Times, Three recommendations for accessible remote learning, The Case for a Targeted Job Search, We must make sure that...
4 reports that caught our eye the week of July 26, 2020
Each week, CERIC is on the lookout for the latest reports related to career development. Here are four reports that we found interesting this week: Work, Inclusion and 2SLGBTQ+ people...
4 reasons why getting creative with a resume could get it tossed
I get it. I really do. Only one person gets the job, and there are hundreds of applicants. So naturally, the first thing jobseekers do is ask themselves how they...
Client Side: I had my career mapped out – until a new experience opened my eyes
Faith Jensen had long planned to be a small-animal vet, but classes and work-integrated learning exposed exciting alternative pathways....
Pulse Survey: How Career Advisor Marina Hai is navigating COVID-19
In June, CERIC released the Recovery Pulse Survey with the aim of learning more about how COVID-19 was affecting career services in Canada. Nearly 1,150 career professionals from across the...
Helping clients answer the big post-lockdown interview question
As a teacher in the Workplace Preparation Program (WPP) at Mohawk College in Hamilton, ON, I understand the concern my student professionals feel about job searching in the age of...
CareerWise Weekly: Women in labour force | ATS resumes | Aging workforce – July 21, 2020
Women's participation in labour force reaches lowest level in three decades, Résumés for Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), Could Appreciative Inquiry Improve Your Career Coaching?, Immigration pilot program takes aim at...