Career Development Practice: Building a New Era

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Aly Hassan

Issued on 28 Sep 2023 by

Canadian Career Development Foundation

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You have likely been hearing about change and complexity in the world of work and have no doubt seen firsthand the myriad of challenges people are facing. This brand-new free course, Career Development Practice: Building a New Era is focused on supporting you in the incredibly important work you do The course is offered by the Career Development Professional Centre (CDPC), created to advocate for the work you do, help you connect with others doing this work across the country, access practical training and resources, and continue developing your expertise. Career Development Practice: Building a New Era is the first course on foundational career development skills and knowledge ever to be offered to Canadian career development practitioners in all provinces and territories, free of charge! The course, which blends virtual sessions, online activities, and 2 days of face-to-face learning, will be pilot tested throughout Canada in spring/summer of 2023. You will participate with a group of about 20 others who will work through the course together over 4 weeks. Career Development Practice: Building a New Era is more than a course. You will learn new skills or deepen the ones you have, and explore new knowledge areas,- and attitudes/mindsets, of course, but you will also be invited into something much bigger – the opportunity to create and help shape a pan- Canadian community of career development professionals.

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Canadian Career Development Foundation

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CCDF leverages the power of career development to build better careers, happier lives, more productive workplaces, and healthier communities.

La FCDC utilise le potentiel du développement de carrière pour bâtir de meilleures carrières, des vies plus heureuses, des lieux de travail plus productifs et des communautés en meilleure santé.

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Learning Outcomes

When you finish the course, you will be able to use your core interpersonal skills – questioning, listening, and structuring – more effectively within a 6-step career development process to help individuals and groups in a variety of settings. You will learn the breadth and depth of the career development field, enabling you to more effectively find the help you and the people you serve need while also helping you expand the possibilities of your own career development. You will leave the course confident in your abilities to:

appreciate the scope of the career development field
recognize the drivers behind the changes in the work world
maintain personal and professional boundaries
connect in genuine ways with the people you serve
apply the steps of a reimagined career development process
honour differences among the people you serve
recognize and moderate the impact of your privileges, biases, power, and authority on your practice
recognize the importance of key issues affecting your practice, such as social justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, and reconciliation
apply the fundamentals of trauma-informed practice -recognize ethical concerns and find appropriate guidance to resolve them -apply ways to manage your own learning and career development

Reflective practice principles and methods are embedded throughout the course so that completing the course will not only help you improve your practice and enable the people you serve to achieve better outcomes but also look after your own professional growth long after the course is over.