Job Developers have an important role to play in helping candidates (i.e., job-seeking clients) find meaningful employment and creating strong partnerships with employers; they make a crucial link between the agencies supporting candidates and the local business community. Job Developers need to be equipped to support diverse candidates while also meeting the needs of employers. This course will outline best practices in job development including understanding diverse candidates, preparing candidates for employment, making effective candidate-employer matches, maintaining effective relationships with employers, and dealing with challenges and concerns that may arise.

Building from Ethics Primer or previous training in counselling/psychotherapy ethics, this follow-up, facilitated online course will dig deeper, exploring best practices for ethical counselling according to CCPA’s code of ethics and standards of practice. Students will discuss ethical “grey areas” in current counselling practice; course activities will require personal reflection about values, culture, context, and decision-making processes as ethical knowledge is translated to practice through working with real and hypothetical scenarios.

The Career Engagement model (Pickerell & Borgen, 2023) has applications far beyond the workplace. With a focus on continuously realigning one’s life challenges with the individual and organizational capacity available to meet them, the Career Engagement model offers a holistic framework for understanding how to sustain wellbeing across life roles and contexts. This Masterclass will begin with a recorded orientation session introducing the model and its applicability to the wide range of life roles you’re engaged in, including if you’re working virtually from home. Readings and reflective activities will be provided to help you prepare for the facilitated in-person Masterclass sessions (2 X ½ days) where you will deepen your understanding of the intersection between career/life engagement and overall wellbeing, with a dual focus on (a) your own self-care as a career development professional and (b) how to promote and sustain the engagement and wellbeing of the individuals you serve. After the class, you will engage in reflection and apply what you’ve learned. Two weeks later, we will meet again on Zoom to debrief the class and your practical experience with the Career Engagement model.