Beyond the Basics: Real World Skills for Career Practitioners

Beyond the Basics: Real World Skills for Career Practitioners (2001) is a book by Life Strategies president, Roberta Neault. It's a helpful read for career practitioners and is also a textbook in some of our courses. One of our newest certificate programs, Job Developer, requires this as well.

It has over 100 pages of tips and techniques for working with diverse clients including individuals, groups, corporations and communities, and is linked to the Canadian National Standards and Guidelines for Career Development.

To order, see our online store - http://www.lifestrategies.ca/store/products.php?cat=14

This book is available in PDF and printed formats.

Career Developments

Career Developments is a newsletter put out by the Canadian Career Development Foundation (CCDF), a non-profit organization which strives to "advance career development and the capacity of the profession to respond with compassion and skill to all clients and stakeholders in an ever-changing work environment." (see http://www.ccdf.ca/ccdf2/cms/displayMain.asp?lang=en§ion=about for more information)

This publication "highlights current developments, innovations, and professional and policy issues in the field of career development in Canada and internationally."

See the CCDF website (http://www.ccdf.ca/ccdf2/cms/displayMain.asp?lang=en§ion=newsletter) for more details and to access copies of the newsletter.

Conversation Series on Career and Workforce Development Policies and Practice

Check out this amazing "Afternoon Tea" series sponsored by the Center on Education and Work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Each of the "conversations" takes the approach of an afternoon tea with a leader in the career development field. There are plenty to choose from...have fun :-)

http://afternoontea.wceruw.org/Home.aspx/Conversations