By understanding the historical context of Indigenous peoples’ disconnection from workforce development, you can help individuals thrive today. In this webinar, you will learn:
- How Indigenous worldviews and cultural understandings can help address the impact of historical policies on Indigenous career development
- The important role they continue to play in Indigenous career development
- How Indigenous career practitioners are integrating Indigenous ways of knowing and being into their career practices
- How greater knowledge of Indigenous perspectives can assist you to better support Indigenous clients
Indigenous and non-Indigenous career practitioners can collaborate to promote inclusive and respectful career development practices. In this webinar, you will:
- Explore the importance of importance of reciprocity and interconnectedness in mind, body, spirit and emotions when building relationships with clients
- Gain strategies to support Indigenous voices and self-advocacy
- Learn how to effectively engage in responsible dialogue and relationships to promote an inclusive practice
- Understand your in empowering clients and guiding them toward purposeful career decisions
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Career development practice influences mental health directly and indirectly regardless of practitioners’ intentions. Through this webinar, you will:
- Understand the differences and connections between mental health and mental illness
- Learn from research about the interactions between career development, work, mental health and mental illness
- Apply the Career Development Effect Model and understand the main outcomes of career development interventions
- Recognize new ways to immediately improve the mental health impact of your work
Different career development interventions contribute to mental health in distinct ways, but all help clients manage stress. This webinar will:
- Show the relationship between stress and mental health
- Describe the three main ways that practitioners can help clients manage stress
- Show how to do so within your ethical, professional and role boundaries
- Emphasize the most important stress control area – coping competence – in career development work
You can intentionally use your interpersonal skills to achieve both career development and mental health outcomes for your clients. This webinar will cover:
- The key interpersonal skills needed for effective intervention
- The most overlooked yet powerful skills in career development intervention
- How to use these skills to incorporate mental health outcomes while also improving career development outcomes
- How to work within ethical and professional boundaries while incorporating mental health awareness and outcomes
The many contributions that practitioners make to client mental health have gone largely unnoticed by practitioners, their employers, funders and policymakers. In this webinar, you will learn:
- Straightforward and practical ways to begin measuring mental health outcomes
- How to use measurement data to communicate key messages to stakeholders
- Which stakeholders these outcomes should be communicated to and how
- Communication tools and strategies you can modify for your own purpose
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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
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The concept of assessment shares parallels with the familiar activity of storytelling. In this webinar, you will:
- Recognize various assessment approaches and the questions they address
- Gain experience using assessment data to tell the story of career services
- Reflect on areas of your own practice where you envision focusing assessment efforts
- Build confidence in your personal ability to engage in assessment efforts
It’s impactful to start assessment “with the end in mind” – beginning with your intended outcomes. This webinar will equip you to:
- Understand a variety of outcomes types encountered in career services practice
- Connect outcomes to theories and professional standards
- Use the assessment of outcomes as a tool for continuous improvement and communicating value
- Write outcomes statements for your own career development services
Building your assessment plan with intention and strategic alignment sets you up for success. This webinar will:
- Explain the value of an assessment plan
- Explore common components of an assessment plan, such as purpose, target audience and future assessment plans
- Review example assessment plan templates
- Reflect on strategies for selecting appropriate assessment methods
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Assessment is a holistic, ongoing and dynamic process. In this webinar, you will:
- Examine the historical evolution of assessment within career practice
- Expand your understanding of “assessment” for clients across cultures, capabilities and contexts
- Familiarize yourself with diverse career, educational and personal wellness assessment tools
- Critically reflect on your own assessment approach and comfort with technology, integrating current trends and contextual factors
Choosing an assessment tool is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Through this webinar, learn how to:
- Align assessment selection with client goals
- Navigate logistical constraints (e.g. time, budget, resources and training levels)
- Understand how theoretical background, scope and limitations affect assessment tools
- Explore how to handle contradictions, missing information and/or biases
Assessment can be a powerful asset in your client support toolbox. Through this webinar, you will:
- Develop strategies to identify themes/patterns, enhancing clients’ self-awareness
- Integrate “test” results with other sources of information to empower clients to develop a comprehensive and actionable career plan
- Explore reporting considerations (e.g. written vs. verbal) in culturally responsive and trauma-informed ways
- Address ethical considerations to maintain a safe and effective client partnership
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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
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Assessment is a holistic, ongoing and dynamic process. In this webinar, you will:
- Examine the historical evolution of assessment within career practice
- Expand your understanding of “assessment” for clients across cultures, capabilities and contexts
- Familiarize yourself with diverse career, educational and personal wellness assessment tools
- Critically reflect on your own assessment approach and comfort with technology, integrating current trends and contextual factors
Choosing an assessment tool is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Through this webinar, learn how to:
- Align assessment selection with client goals
- Navigate logistical constraints (e.g. time, budget, resources and training levels)
- Understand how theoretical background, scope and limitations affect assessment tools
- Explore how to handle contradictions, missing information and/or biases
Assessment can be a powerful asset in your client support toolbox. Through this webinar, you will:
- Develop strategies to identify themes/patterns, enhancing clients’ self-awareness
- Integrate “test” results with other sources of information to empower clients to develop a comprehensive and actionable career plan
- Explore reporting considerations (e.g. written vs. verbal) in culturally responsive and trauma-informed ways
- Address ethical considerations to maintain a safe and effective client partnership
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To engage in research, it’s important to first understand what evidence is and how it’s used to inform decisions. By the end of this webinar, you should be able to:
- Describe the core features of the scientific approach
- Differentiate between quantitative and qualitative research approaches
- Discuss how approaches to data collection, measurement and sampling influence research outcomes
- Explain the Evidence Continuum and why it matters
Having an understanding of evidence and research is an important component of career development work. Through this webinar, you will:
- Identify strategies to find relevant (peer-reviewed and non-peer reviewed) research studies and name their core components
- Read research reports critically using the “Two-Pass” Approach
- Describe how cognitive biases can influence how we read and interpret research, and consider approaches to challenge these biases
- Develop strategies to assess the trustworthiness of research
While you might feel research is the domain of academics, it can also be an enriching part of your practice. This webinar will help you:
- Discuss the challenges career development practitioners can face in conducting original research – and approaches to address them
- Understand opportunities to bridge the researcher-practitioner gap
- Plan ahead to share your research findings with others
- Reflect on the opportunities to advance evidence-informed approaches in your own work
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Through this webinar, you will:
- Define and explore examples of different types of loss that a service participant might be grieving including: living loss (non-death losses), disenfranchised loss (hidden sorrow) and ambiguous loss
- Identify possible client responses to loss (physical, mental, social, emotional) and how these might influence career conversations
- Explore how our words and actions around loss and grieving may inadvertently contribute to disenfranchising our service participants
This webinar will support you to better understand:
- The process of grieving – its many facets, twists and turns – including comparing and contrasting some grief models
- The interplay of grief and time
- The meaning and sense-making aspects of the grief process, and how to link these with career conversations
With this webinar, you will be able to:
- Identify how the Good Fit Model can be used to foster an environment of safety and belonging and to harvest knowledge, skills and abilities found in a service participant’s loss experiences
- Illustrate the use of metaphor to support the meaning and sense-making aspects of loss processing
- Develop prompts to translate the knowledge, skills and abilities of loss experiences into pain/passion points, and connect those with career possibilities