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2019 Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association Interview with Amy Rubin and Christina Gentile

The Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association is a national bilingual association of professionally trained counsellors. CCPA’s members work in diverse fields of education, employment and career development, social work, business, industry, mental health, public service agencies, government and private practice. The 2019 conference was jointly presented with the Int’l Association for Counselling. It was held May [...]

July 9th, 2019|Tags: Breathing, Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association, career counsellor, CCPA, counsellor, education, heath, intentional exploration, mental heath, professors, research, transferable skills, university, wellness, yoga|0 Comments

2019 Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association Interview with Amy Rubin and Christina Gentile

Amy Rubin is a yoga therapist (C-IAYT) and has worked with hundreds of clients suffering from anxiety, depression, addiction, and chronic pain. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Counselling. Her session was, Yoga Therapy: Basic Frameworks and Therapeutic Techniques for Counsellors and other Professionals. Christina Gentile holds a M.A. (Counselling Psychology) from the University [...]

July 3rd, 2019|Tags: Breathing, Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association, career counsellor, CCPA, counselling, counsellor, education, health, intentional exploration, professors, research, self-knowledge, Therapeutic, transferable skills, university, wellness, yoga|0 Comments

2019 Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association Interview with Rebecca Hudson Breen and Breanna Lawrence

Rebecca Hudson Breen is an Assistant Professor in Counselling Psychology at the University of Alberta. She is the current President of the Career Counsellor's Chapter of CCPA. Breanna Lawrence is an Assistant Professor in the graduate counselling program at Brandon University. She has worked with children and their families for 10 years in educational and [...]

July 3rd, 2019|Tags: Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Associatio, career, career development, CCPA, counselling, development, education, happiness, mental health, multi-tasking, professor, psychology, transferable skills, university, wellness|0 Comments

Opening Up a World of Career Opportunities & Lifetime Experiences

Seeing the need for post-secondary graduates to really understand and grasp opportunities Alex McKee founded Millennial Xchange. Not limiting itself as a mentor program, but a career launch pad where ambitious creative minds can connect with professionals from all walks of life. Also joining the conversation, starting at 12:55, are Diane Latta, a mentor with [...]

Pursuing a Career in Sales – Three Interviews from the Great Canadian Sales Competition

Sheila Cassidy leads the Great Canadian Sales Competition, one of Canada's biggest student competitions. Her team, including 150 student Ambassadors coast to coast, promotes sales as a career and a valuable skill-set to students across Canada. A trailblazer and Chief Revenue Officer at Ceridian, Larry Dunivan was instrumental in moving Ceridian to a cloud-based company. [...]

February 3rd, 2017|Tags: business management, education, implicit advice, intentional exploration, management, post secondary, promoter, recruitment, recruitment officer, revenue officer, sales, sales associate, student, student ambassador, transferable skills, undergraduate, university|0 Comments

Don’t Make Any Assumptions: Inside U of T Mississauga’s Career Centre

“Don’t make any assumptions,” said self-confessed career geek, Felicity Morgan, “about what you think about any career area.” Felicity is director of the career center at the University of Toronto at Mississauga. The UTM career centre serves over 13,000 students, with 15 staff. When we make assumptions we risk “not seeing our own biases and [...]

Success in the Practice of Entrepreneurship & Student Service Management

In this episode of Career Buzz, Nicole Hamilton talks to Debbie Cornwall, who is the manager of information and student services management at George Brown College. She discusses how her career commenced, and her current role as a Manager at GBC. As well at 32:29, Rebecca Brettingham-Filice talks to us about her ownership of [...]

December 23rd, 2015|Tags: business management, college, Dance, dancer, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, management, student centre, student services, transferable skills, university|1 Comment

Leadership learning for Engineers

Sure, engineers have great technical skills but how do you empower the whole engineer to maximize their potential and contribution? The Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering (ILead) does just that with "transformative learning opportunities" including for-credit courses like Concepts and Applications of Authentic Leadership and a course I've been honoured to teach, Engineering [...]

December 16th, 2015|Tags: education specialist, engineer, engineering, experiential learning, leadership education, leadership training, student services, transferable skills, transformative learning, university|1 Comment

Focus on youth employment
Focus on youth employment

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Focus on youth employment

How can parents and teachers navigate students through the tricky gap between high school and whatever comes next? Emil Boychuk is a seasoned high school teacher and guidance counsellor. He is passionate about helping youth, especially with their career choices and planning. Emil is co-author of a book called Under Construction: Career Pathways to Work and is currently [...]

October 2nd, 2015|Tags: career educator, environmental science, gap-year, guidance counsellor, high school, international development, parent, political science, politics, school, single parent, social justice, student, teacher, university, writer, youth|0 Comments

The value and variety of professional development to help you in your career

How do you get started in a career in training and development? We’ll be joined by John Moudakis, Manager of Professional Development and Career Services at the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers. Also joining us will be Carolyn Smith, who is OSPE’s Manager of Corporate Communications and Digital Media. Carolyn will help us learn about [...]

September 5th, 2015|Tags: associate, career, career services, communications, corporate communications, development, digital media, engineer, engineering, internet, jobs, journalism, learning, media, professional development, professionals, training, university, work|0 Comments