In the current economic climate, we are seeing indivdiuals staying in the workforce longer or even seniors returning to the workforce. In a Globe and Mail article, Hewitt describes how Retirement is so Old Fashioned. See http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20100615.LFOLDERWORKERSATL/TPStory for the full story.

Multicultural Career Counselling Competence

With our increasingly diverse society and global workforce, the need for strong multicultural competency in career counselling is elevated. See the article Multicultural Career Counselling Competence: 5 Key Tips for Improving Practice by Richard Orbe-Austin for recommendations on improving your multicultural competence.

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JIST Assessments Now Online

Did you know that JIST assessments, such as the Career Exploration Inventory (CEI) and Job Search Attitude Inventory (JSAI), which were previously only available in paper/pencil format are now available online – see http://www.jist.com/shop/web/online-assessments/ tests-available for more details.

Recommended Career Books

We want to use this blog to share timely information, relevant for students and alumni of our e-learning programs. Here's a list that came from some research recently done by Dr. Dave Redekopp of the Life-Role Development Group in Alberta:

Career Resource Recommendations

Selected career development experts were asked the following question:

What is the best print resource you've seen for helping the average literate adult, whether employed or unemployed, take charge of, plan for, and get strategic about their career development?

Their responses are provided below. Numbers in parentheses represent how many times the publication was cited. No number indicates that is was cited once. Other than the books mentioned more than once, all other are listed in the order in which respondents named them. Some respondents named more than one resource, and some either did not single out a resource or referred to only non-print resources (not included below).

Radical Change in the World of Work: The Workbook, Alberta Employment & Immigration (5)
What Color is Your Parachute?, Richard Bolles (2)
Guiding Circles, Amundson & Poehnell
The Job of Your Life, Karen Schaffer
What Next?, Barbara Moses
Take Your Soul to Work, Tanis Helliwell
Work This Way, Bruce Tulgen
Not Everyone Gets A Trophy: How to Manage Generation Y, Bruce Tulgen
The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success, Nicholas Lore
I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was : How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It, Barbara Sher
The Artist's Way (and The Artist's Way Workbook), Julia Cameron
Career Pathways, Amundson & Poehnell
Career Strategies for a Lifetime of Success, Roberta Neault
Nova Scotia Careeroptions Handbook
Sixth Messenger, Ben Wicks
Let Your Life Speak, Peter Palmer

Respondents:

Note that this is a biased sample – many of the following are philosophically aligned with the work of LRDG:

Barrie Day, Clarence deSchiffart, Odette Dupuy, Laurie Edwards, Wendy Fox, Rob Frost, Gordon Heidel, Helen Handcock, Phil Jarvis, Kelly Lee-Pelletier, Roberta Neault, Dave Redekopp, Colleen Reichrath-Smith

The three bolded selections are available through the Life Strategies online store