This recorded webinar series was hosted live in 2025.
What you'll learn
Post-secondary education is a critical time to build the foundation for sustainable, fulfilling careers. However, traditional employability models often focus narrowly on skills and attributes – to the detriment of students’ long-term career success. To help them thrive, we must look at the broader range of personal resources – known as “employability capital” – and external factors that affect careers.
In this recorded webinar series, you’ll explore the Employability Capital Growth Model (ECGM), a comprehensive framework that integrates nine forms of employability capital, external factors and time dimensions. Learn how the ECGM can be integrated seamlessly into your career centre’s existing approaches to prepare students for sustainable careers and contribute to a strong career ecosystem.
Gain a deep understanding of the Employability Capital Growth Model (ECGM)
Understand its benefits and limitations
Learn how the ECGM has been successfully applied in a range of contexts, based on its use with 1,500 students across six continents
Explore research-based insights, real-world examples and actionable advice
And much more!
Webinars Overview
This webinar will lay a foundation of knowledge about a sustainable career ecosystem and the ECGM to inform further exploration. In this webinar, you will:
- Learn about a sustainable career ecosystem
- Understand how the ECGM was developed
- Name and describe the components of the ECGM
- Connect the various components of the ECGM
Academics and career development professionals across 16 countries and six continents have offered insights on the ECGM. This webinar will help you to:
- Understand how the ECGM has been used in practice
- Assess the benefits of the ECGM
- Critique aspects of the ECGM
- Identify how the ECGM can support a sustainable career ecosystem
It’s time to practise using the ECGM as a tool for career guidance! As this live session used breakout rooms that were not recorded, the on-demand webinar is shorter than the others. In this webinar, you will:
- Recall the components of the ECGM
- Illustrate a 10-step process for using the ECGM
- Practise using the ECGM
- Appraise using the ECGM
A CERIC-CACEE Partner Webinar Series
Registration Includes
• 3, hour-long recorded webinars to learn at your own pace
• A downloadable certificate upon completion
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Register
$90.00
Meet the Presenter
William E. Donald is an Associate Professor of Sustainable Careers and Human Resource Management at Southampton Business School, the University of Southampton, U.K. He is also the founder of Donald Research & Consulting. Will originally worked as a Graduate Recruiter for an Investment Bank in London, U.K. before transitioning into academia in 2014. Will is the co-creator of the Employability Capital Growth Model (ECGM), as well as the creator of Sustainable Career Ecosystem Theory (SCET) and Weather as a Career Metaphor (WCM).
He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Career Development International (CDI) and was listed in the Shaw Trust Disability Power 100 List for 2024 as one of the 100 most-influential disabled people in the U.K. for his contributions to education and research. Will regularly presents at international conferences and delivers workshops on the ECGM.
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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.