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WEBINAR - HOWIE OUTERBRIDGE - Career Management: Assessing and Considering Your Options

DATE & TIME: February 6 12:00-1:00 pm
COST: FREE for members $10.00 for non-members
REGISTER: Click HERE
CONTACT: info@bccda.org or (604) 684-3638

DESCRIPTION: Indeed, change is in the air, but what does this mean for you? Join Howie Outerbridge for this 1 hour webinar on transition, the emotions associated with career change, and how to most effectively deal with unplanned change. Howie supplements some of the current research on change management with stories from his recent transition, and presents 5 key strategies to deal with change.

BCCDA Offering Evening & Weekend Ethics & Theories Courses

With the February 28, 2012 deadline looming (end of CCDP Certification Option A-Grandfathering), there are some opportunities to complete the required Ethics and Career Development Theories. BCCDA offers Ethics & Theories workshops that fit your busy schedule with evening and weekend classes.

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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:

Don't forget to book your calendar for CDC 2012 and ITP 2012 at the Pan Pacific in March 2012

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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.

	Roundtable News Release Association Roundtable Press Release re: New Employment Program of BC
	Roundtable Backgrounder Roundtable Backgrounder on new Employment Program of BC.
	Association umbrella-group submission to ELMS
	BCCDA Submission to ELMS re new program model