careers
WHERE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT CAREER
DEVELOPMENT
For HR professionals interested in taking courses on career development,
the Directory of Career Development Education Programs in Canada can
be found at www.ceric.ca/documents/CDEP_Directory.pdf.
To learn more about the Canadian Standards & Guidelines for
Career Development Practitioners, visit http://career-dev-guidelines.org.
and might even be causing problems. In this case, a career de-velopment
conversation would focus on the employee’s preferred
future, motivated skills, passions, desires and explore specific oc-cupational
choices within the company. More importantly, it is
the opportunity for the employee to take ownership for their lev-el
of engagement.
HR can add supportive modalities to existing career path or
succession programs by:
■■ Documenting common interests, motivations and skills of
individuals in particular positions;
■■ Identifying individuals who made significant and deliberate
moves from one position to another; and
■■ Connecting individuals to others in the organization who have
successfully moved into new positions.
Many HR professionals already have the basic building blocks
for career development discussions. In their day-to-day roles, many
offer counselling to employees on issues ranging from work-life
balance, child or elder care, compassionate leave, return-to-work
and performance development. Career development offers similar
assistance to individuals, so both disciplines borrow heavily from
a wide range of related disciplines such as counselling and thera-py;
adult education; ministry and spirituality; and economic and
labour force development. ■
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