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PAST FREE WEBINAR
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Moderator
- Candy Ho, Faculty, Educational Studies, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Panellists
- Akosua Alagaratnam, Executive Director, First Work
- Joanna Goode, Executive Director, Canadian Association for Supported Employment (CASE)
- Trevor Buttrum, Executive Director, Canadian Association of Career Educators & Employers (CACEE)
- Dinuka Gunaratne, Director, Career Development & Experiential Learning, Northeastern University
Original date and time
- June 13, 2025 – 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm ET (Check your time zone)
Price
- FREE webinar series
Language
- This webinar series was presented in English, with French subtitles available on the recording.
Accessibility
- This webinar series offered AI-generated live captions available in multiple languages
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French subtitles are available on the recording of this webinar.
[/vc_message][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][headings alignment=”” heading_color=”#568caf” heading=”Overview of the Webinar”][vc_column_text css=””]The career development field in Canada is experiencing a moment of both challenge and innovation. While professionals continue to provide essential support to diverse populations—from newcomers to youth to mid-career changers—they are doing so in an environment marked by evolving client needs, economic uncertainty and rapid shifts in workplace technology and culture.
This national webinar will convene a cross-section of career development leaders to reflect on the key findings of CERIC’s Survey of Career Service Professionals released earlier this year. Sector leaders will engage in a thought-provoking panel discussion on what those findings reveal when viewed through a regional or sector-specific lens.
From workforce precarity to the promise of emerging technologies like AI, panellists will explore how these dynamics are playing out on the ground today—and what they signal for the future of the profession.
By connecting survey data with current economic, social and labour market realities—including affordability concerns, demand for upskilling/reskilling and growing expectations for inclusive and responsive services—this session aims to offer an up-to-date, multidimensional view of the field’s position and possibilities.[/vc_column_text][headings alignment=”” heading_color=”#568caf” heading=”Why career professionals should attend”][vc_column_text css=””]Join this fast-paced, one-hour panel to convert fresh survey data into actionable insight. You’ll gain an evidence-based view of Canada’s career development landscape – this time, with an even more relevant lens from a regional and sectoral comparison.
Drawing from the CERIC’s Survey of Career Development Professionals released earlier this year, this session explores key dynamics shaping the field: heavy workloads, burnout, shifts in client mental health and the impacts of limited funding and professional development budgets. You’ll discover how leaders in the field are responding to the rising use of AI, balancing innovation with accessibility and ethics.
Our cross-sector panel of leaders will unpack regional and sector-specific variations, offering concrete advice and examples of how they are responding to the data to boost sustainability, equity and service impact. Leave equipped with current metrics, comparative insights and ideas to inform your practice, support your team, and position career development as a vital force in economic and social well-being.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][headings alignment=”” heading_color=”#568caf” tag=”h4″ heading=”Webinar Takeaways”][vc_column_text css=””]
- Gain insight into the most pressing challenges facing Canada’s career development professionals today, including resource constraints, changing service models and client mental health concerns
- Understand regional and sector-specific variations in how CDPs are responding to shifting labour market conditions and evolving client expectations
- Explore the growing role of AI and digital tools in service delivery and how professionals are navigating the balance between innovation and ethics, access and readiness
- Examine workforce and funding pressures impacting practitioner sustainability and organizational resilience, including practitioner burnout and retention
- Identify forward-looking strategies being adopted across the country to enhance impact, support practitioners and position career development as a vital contributor to economic and social well-being
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- 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)
- 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
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- Revisit the history of storytelling and what determines how we communicate
- Learn why our cultural identity is a powerful analytical tool
- Travel through life transitions, hear about “cultural aliens” and understand the social process of “othering”
- Locate situations, revisit the self, available supports, and learn to build new strategies
- Review implications of intercultural miscommunication
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- Support clients to communicate their sense of self and apply their awareness
- Clarify with your client how to integrate their story with their culture and their listener’s culture
- Use the transaction model of communication in various ways
- Inspire the storyteller to align their story to their industry standards
- Motivate storytellers to address cultural assumptions
- Evaluate tools for analysis and self-reflection: revisit experiences, cultural assumptions, self-perceptions and fixed mindsets
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RECORDING: (in English with French subtitles available)
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Overview: The latest CERIC Survey of Career Service Professionals
This survey was completed by a total of 1,033 career professionals across Canada in October, with results released in January this year. The findings present a critical snapshot of the current state of the career development field, highlighting the most pressing issues facing career professionals, their priorities for professional development and evolving client needs.
Access to the national, regional and sectoral reports for free
[/vc_message][vc_row_inner disable_element=”yes”][vc_column_inner][vc_btn title=”REGISTER NOW” color=”warning” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.ca%2Fe%2Fthe-state-of-career-development-in-canada-tickets-1388959337769%3Faff%3DCERICwebpage|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”71115″ img_size=”240×240″ alignment=”center” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=””]Candy Ho is an international award-winning career development educator and scholar. She is a faculty member in Educational Studies at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Dr. Candy Ho is also Past Chair of CERIC, a national charitable organization advancing career development in Canada. In addition, she teaches in Douglas College’s Career Development Practitioner Program.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-brands fa-linkedin” color=”black” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fcandyho1118%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”71111″ img_size=”240×240″ alignment=”center” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=””]Akosua Alagaratnam is the Executive Director of First Work. A seasoned public-affairs leader, she has focused on policy affecting marginalized communities and youth. As senior adviser to Ontario’s Ministers of Children and Youth Services and Finance, she steered Youth Justice and Youth Opportunity files and shaped legislation spanning labour, social services, corrections and Indigenous relations.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-brands fa-linkedin” color=”black” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Falagaratnam%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-solid fa-globe” color=”black” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Ffirstwork.org%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”71113″ img_size=”240×240″ alignment=”center” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=””]Trevor Buttrum is the Executive Director of Canadian Association of Career Educators & Employers (CACEE). He is an award-winning leader with 20+ years of expertise in campus recruitment, career education and building inclusive talent pipelines. Trevor became Executive Director of CACEE in 2022, empowering members to excel in their critical work with post-secondary talent.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-brands fa-linkedin” color=”black” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Ftrevor-b-a328b0181%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-solid fa-globe” color=”black” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cacee.com%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”71119″ img_size=”240×240″ alignment=”center” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=””]Joanna Goode is the Executive Director at the Canadian Association for Supported Employment, a national membership association committed to increasing the strength and diversity of the Canadian workforce through the inclusion of people who experience disability.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-brands fa-linkedin” color=”black” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fjoanna-goode%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-solid fa-globe” color=”black” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.supportedemployment.ca%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”71117″ img_size=”240×240″ alignment=”center” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=””]Dinuka Gunaratne directs Career Development & Experiential Learning at Northeastern University. Since 2007 he has served six Canadian universities in student services, fundraising, alumni relations and career development. An immigrant from Sri Lanka, he champions international students and system-level EDI and anti-racism and facilitates Anti-Racism Response Training.[/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-brands fa-linkedin” color=”black” align=”center” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fdgunaratne%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_single_image image=”63334″ img_size=”240×240″ alignment=”center”][spacing desktop_height=”30″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Dr. Catherine Hajnal facilitates an understanding of trauma, loss and grief including their transformative potential. For over 25 years she has been committed to creating learning environments that foster a deeper understanding of the human condition. [/vc_column_text][spacing desktop_height=”20″][vc_row_inner rtl_reverse=”yes”][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][vc_icon icon_fontawesome=”fab fa-linkedin” color=”black” size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fcatherinehajnal%2F|target:_blank”][/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1/2″][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column][spacing desktop_height=”35″ mobile_height=”25″ smobile_height=”10″][headings alignment=”” heading_color=”#568caf” tag=”h3″ heading=”Que nous disent les participants du webinaire de Frédéric?”][spacing desktop_height=”35″ mobile_height=”25″ smobile_height=”10″][accordions]
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