This recorded webinar series originally ran in 2020 and continues to offer valuable strategies for career professionals.
What you'll learn
As the population ages and more people choose or need to work longer, career development planning for older clients is becoming an essential skill for career practitioners. To help this cohort thrive, it is crucial to understand their motivations for engaging (or re-engaging) in the workforce and how to guide them to prepare and adapt to a rapidly changing world of work.
In this recorded webinar series, you will discover innovative ways to approach career development for “mature” workers. Gain practical tools and techniques to support your clients to create engaging and meaningful lives. Explore how older workers can cultivate valuable relationships as mentors and continue to advance in today’s evolving workplace.
Learn to assess older workers’ needs and celebrate their strengths
Understand what contributes to their engagement and success
Gain practical strategies to facilitate career planning and adaptability
Identify opportunities to enhance multi-generational workplace connections
And much more!
Webinars Overview
To better support older workers, we need to celebrate how they benefit the workforce. In this webinar, you will learn how to:
- Support older workers to grow their self-understanding, recognize their value and engage in networking
- Interpret occupational research (workforce trends and opportunities) to support older workers
- Assess older workers’ needs and address questions regarding their career navigation
- Reconceptualize meaningful work
We can support older workers to transform demographic challenges into opportunities. This webinar will guide you to:
- Identify factors contributing to older workers’ engagement and success
- Understand the family and caregiving responsibilities that many older workers provide
- Identify economic information and financial support to assist older workers
- Encourage lifelong learning, career planning and adaptability
Enhancing multi-generational workplace connections can facilitate older workers’ engagement. In this webinar, you will:
- Discover how older workers can engage in mentorship and support knowledge transfer
- Uncover techniques to tap into hidden job opportunities and advance in today’s changing workforce
- Recognize and strengthen motivations to mentor
- Identify strategies to facilitate older workers’ engagement through meaningful work and mattering
A CERIC-WCCDA Partner Webinar Series
Registration Includes
• 3 recorded webinars with nearly 3 hours of total content to learn at your own pace
• A downloadable certificate upon completion
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Register
$90.00
Meet the Presenters
Jennifer Luke is an Australian PhD candidate and Careers Educator at the University of Southern Queensland (USQ) as well as Divisional President (Queensland) Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA). She is also a research member of the Australian Collaboratory for Career Employability & Learning for Living (ACCELL), researching post-retirement age career re-engagement, adaptability, meaningful work and mentorship.
Dr. William Borgen, Professor, Counselling Psychology at the University of British Columbia, has extensive experience researching and developing life transitions and career development programs. His work has been adapted for Bhutan, Denmark, Finland, Hungary and Sweden. Recently he has investigated the experience of people whose work has been affected by change, and those successfully transitioning to retirement.
Dr. Roberta Borgen (Neault), President of Life Strategies Ltd., Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia, and Project Director for the Canadian Career Development Foundation (CCDF), is co-developer of the Career Engagement model, and has extensive experience as an educator and counsellor supporting individuals and organizations with transitions, engagement and strategies to maximize their success.
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About CERIC
CERIC is a charitable organization that is dedicated to the advancement of education, research and advocacy in career counselling and development. We fund projects and provide innovative resources and learning opportunities that build the knowledge and skills of diverse career and employment professionals.