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BCCDA Offering Evening & Weekend Ethics & Theories Courses
No classes are scheduled at this time. If there is interest, we are happy to arrange classes, either in person or via Skype. Please contact BCCDA at 604-684-3638 or email info@bccda.org.
Ethics
Length: 12 Hours
Cost: $275 + HST (Members: 10% off)
Register: 604-684-3638 or info@bccda.org or REGISTER ONLINE
Length: 12 Hours
Cost: $275 + HST (Members: 10% off)
Register: 604-684-3638 or info@bccda.org or REGISTER ONLINE
Career Development Theories
Length: 22 Hours
Cost: $350 + HST (Members: 10% off)
Register: 604-684-3638 or info@bccda.org or REGISTER ONLINE
Length: 22 Hours
Cost: $350 + HST (Members: 10% off)
Register: 604-684-3638 or info@bccda.org or REGISTER ONLINE
CAREERWELL TELE-INTERVIEWS - register at www.careerwell.org
Enhance your professional development options without spending time and money traveling. BCCDA has formed a partnership with Careerwell to provide education and training through live and recorded "tele-interviews" with career industry experts and leaders. BCCDA members have the opportunity to participate in Careerwell telephone interviews (accessed via the Internet) 2-4 times per month, with access to archived interviews.The interviews are free for BCCDA members, except for the minimal cost you pay your long-distance provider as you phone in to the sessions (we recommend Skype as a very low cost alternative). Each month we will email you the list of upcoming speakers and you can go directly to the Careerwell site to register for the sessions that interest you, choosing BCCDA from the list of subscribing organizations.
Careerwell is facilitated by renowned career counsellor, Sally Gelardin, Ed.D. past-president of the California Career Development Association. Learn new theories, approaches and models along with the latest on job search strategies and career practices, all of which can be applied immediately with your clients and within your programs.
Key benefits to BCCDA members:
- Listen live or listen later to interviews with career industry leaders
- Join the Careerwell.org learning community with other career professionals
- Apply speakers' activities and learning immediately
- Receive attendance verification and earn CCDP continuing education hours
Registration Instructions:
To find out more and to watch an introductory interview, go to http://careerwell.org. Scroll down the page to view the intro videos and look in the left column for the list of upcoming speakers and an archive of past speakers. Although this service is based in the US, Sally has interviewed many Canadian experts including Norm Amundson and Roberta Neault, and will be planning even more now that we are members. lthough we will remind you of the process again later, here are the registration instructions:
Register at the beginning of each month, or at least 24 hours before the scheduled interview you're interested in. On the registration form, under #2, indicate your membership affiliations: check "BCCDA". After registering, you will receive an email with the call-in instructions for the live session AND you will receive a link to the audio recording of the interview within a week or two after the scheduled interview. In order to receive the complementary audio, you MUST REGISTER BEFORE THE LIVE INTERVIEW, even if your schedule prevents you from listening to the live interview. After you listen to the session, fill out the evaluation form linked to your call-in instructions directly after the live interview, especially if you want to earn CEUs, as you will be sent an 'attendance verification' for your files. Check out the http://careerwell.org website.
WEBINAR - Career Services Community in Canada: CERIC Survey Results
CEU - 1 hour
DATE & TIME: May 7, 12:00-1:00 pm
COST: $10.00
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DESCRIPTION: Presented by Sharon Ferriss, Director, Marketing, Web and New Media with CERIC – the Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling, this webinar will offer an overview of demographic information about the career service community (educational background, years of experience, salary, perceptions about career options) as well as professional development and research trends. Information about how career service professionals are coping with new technology, including social media, will also be presented along with how practitioners feel about their own professional mobility.
DESCRIPTION: Presented by Sharon Ferriss, Director, Marketing, Web and New Media with CERIC – the Canadian Education and Research Institute for Counselling, this webinar will offer an overview of demographic information about the career service community (educational background, years of experience, salary, perceptions about career options) as well as professional development and research trends. Information about how career service professionals are coping with new technology, including social media, will also be presented along with how practitioners feel about their own professional mobility.
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Sector News and Updates ...
New BC Employment Program - ELMS RFP Successful Proponents Announced
The BC Government has announced the results of the RFP process for the new Employment Program of BC to be implemented in April 2012, and have issued a successful proponents list, announcement/press release, Q&A/FAQ, and a Fact Sheet. For links to the information and documents go to the BCCDA Blog and view the related post dated October 20th 2012. ELMS, the department of Employment and Labour Market Services within the Ministry of Social Development, is leading the transformation of BC's employment programs and services, bringing all employment programming under one umbrella program to be run through 73 contracts establishing 'one-stop' Employment Service Centres (ESCs) across the province. Currently there are over 300 contracts directly funded and coordinated by a wide variety of private, non-profit, and educational organizations and other community based training organizations across the province. These organizations worked to form partnerships in order to be able to meet the service and financial capacity required to deliver the new program and bid on the 73 contracts.
The BCCDA has taken a proactive role throughout the ELMS consultation and RFP period, holding information sessions and 'decoding transformation' workshops across the province. We gathered member feedback and conveyed the concerns to the government at their stakeholder meetings and through BC Bid. The association also made a formal submission to ELMS through BC Bid to clarify the issues specific to career practitioners in BC. The letter can be found above. As well the BCCDA had joined with other provincial umbrella groups and associations to discuss the ramifications of the new program and funding model and to jointly convey our concerns over the new model to the BC Government.
Interested stakeholders can stay informed regarding the new model and the government’s initiatives on the ELMS website www.labourmarketservices.gov.bc.ca. Be sure to sign up the RSS Feed or the newsletter on the site and subscribe to the BCCDA’s blog at www.blog.bccda.org.
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Roundtable News Release Association Roundtable Press Release re: New Employment Program of BC |
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Roundtable Backgrounder Roundtable Backgrounder on new Employment Program of BC. |
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