Story Hub is Now LaunchedBy Tam Nguyen and Carla Siojo, News Committee Co-Chairs
Until one day a person showed me how to ask properly “So, what are exciting things you are working on?” There you go, the conversation could go on and on and finally, you can understand others at a much deeper level, their interests, their values, their passion…. Working in the Career development field is really our privilege. We never run out of exciting things to talk about. We are helping people to reach the point that they couldn’t stop talking about their job, excitedly I mean. Yet working in career development is challenging at the same time. No two clients are the same, hence no “one size fits all.” The world is changing every second, we are changing and our clients are changing. How could we make sure we don’t get trapped in outdated thoughts, judgments, or stereotypes? How could we fuel our reflection, our sense of purpose, and our sense of community belonging? We are so good at helping clients see their awareness gaps, how about ours? We are listening to others’ stories, but how about our stories? With those questions in mind, we’d love to share with you our new initiative: Story hub Why stories? Careers are one of the most beautiful things we can build in our life. Career stories are one of the most interesting stories in human history. And we are people that not only have access to those stories but also play a significant role in them. Story hub is launched as a place for us CDPs to share those stories, share challenges our clients encounter, and how our genuine support makes a difference. Our everyday work has so many layers of meaning, and by sharing that, we are part of a community to help: Help ourselves and colleagues learn through stories: the approach, mindset, tools, and exercises being practiced in the career development field. Reflecting on others’ experiences is the best way to learn. Help us all to archive meaningful contributions and joyful moments we shared with our clients on their journey. Whenever you feel down at work, just go back and read all smiles you and others brought to this world. How to submit your story? The Story Hub is intended to be a forum where we, career development practitioners, share career stories of ourselves, our clients, and discuss how our practice and the interplay of cultures and backgrounds shape people’s career choices. For the months of June and July we invite you to please share your career stories by writing an article for the APCDA News Blog on any or all of these 3 story centers:
You may submit your articles of at least 350-600 words anytime between Now and July 15, 2022. There’s no limit on how many stories an individual can submit. Please send your article to: News@AsiaPacificCDA.org. Our news committee, upon receiving and reviewing your stories, will publish them this June and July. Looking forward to hearing your stories. |
Call for Nominations and TestimonialsIn July, we will reach our 10th Anniversary! We are planning a celebration. Everyone is invited to the party - it is free - register so you will get a link to join and a reminder. Click here for our 10th Anniversary Celebration Flyer. Help us make our 10th Anniversary special by contributing a testimonial. What experiences have you had with APCDA that were special for you? We will post all testimonials on our Member Recognition page. Send them to Info@AsiaPacificCDA.org. Of course, we will also hold our Annual Member Meeting during this event, and we hope to showcase candidates for President-Elect. Please send nominations to our Past President Ms. Sing Chee Wong at PPresident@AsiaPacificCDA.org. |
APCDA continues its growth and increasing involvement of members in the conduct of APCDA business. This became apparent in the recent quarterly meeting of the Committee Council. Obviously, at this time the focus of staff and leadership is predominantly upon the conference. However in the background committees continue to work to achieve their mission. The healthy and encouraging signs rom the Committee Council meeting were:
Success Brings Success.
Successes should be shared. Both staff and the news Committee are asking for members success stories. A template for articles and success stories is being developed but in the mean time being active will make you attractive. Become active in:
The next Committee Council meeting is scheduled for July.
Country/Area Council Summary, May 2022By Arun MittalThe quarterly meeting of the country council (May 5/6) highlighted some very interesting trends in the Asia Pacific region. Some of the most important points of discussion were: Globalisation and Demographics:
Green Economy Gets More Attention:
The influence of COVID:
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Getting Value from the New Member CommunityThe launch of the new APCDA Member Community has been a great success. Thank you to all who have visited and set up your profiles. During February, 303 people activated their records. Of those, 56% were members. We are so excited about this response that we have selected 3 winners of the Free Conference Registration Contest. These winners include Stephen Koh (Singapore), Jenikko Quinto (Philippines), and Smita Anirudh (India). Congratulations to these three winners. Please contact me about your registration details. Navigation Tip When you drill down into a group or posting, you can return to the main screen by clicking the logo in the upper left corner.
This community is designed to replace emails, but most of us still need an email to remind us to look at this community. To control the emails you receive from this community, choose “My Profile” from the main menu. Then click on the small Gear icon to the right of your name. The Notification Settings option will appear when you click the gear. Under that group, the first control lets you turn off emails completely. If you do that, you will never again hear from the APCDA Member Community. The next set of controls allows you to decide which groups and which sponsors you want to hear from. The final section allows you to decide to get Realtime notices, a daily digest, or a weekly digest. The bar graph below shows that Daily Digest is the most popular choice. The line graph shows that those who chose Realtime are more likely to open the message when one arrives, and more likely to respond to it. Those who chose Daily or Weekly only open the Digest 40% of the time and only respond 7% of the time.
Privacy Settings Tip The same “Gear” icon leads to Privacy Settings. The default in our community is that “Everyone” can see only your name and country. Those who are members can also see your credentials, job title, organization, city, and state. Notice that the default is to NOT show your email to anyone (because we think you will want to interact within this community). We have allowed non-members to see that there are other people from their own country who belong to this community, but not to know anything more than their names. You can change these settings if you wish. Your visibility to others is completely within your control. Tags Tip Tags are an important way to focus your interaction on topics that matter to you. The main menu offers an opportunity to choose the tags that interest you. When you post, you will be asked to choose tags that are relevant to your message. By choosing tags, the people who care about those topics will see your message in their Realtime, Daily Digest, or Weekly Digest. Others can see your post when they log in. Notice that Natalie Kauffman just posted a question about the sources you find useful for information about career trends. By using tags, she made sure that the people who are interested in this topic will see her post (and your response, should you care to comment). Please engage in these exchanges as often as you can to keep our community vibrant and interesting. If you are not able to post an immediate REPLY, you can click on the LIKE button to demonstrate to our other members that you have read the post. Tags also create a library of posts on a topic. Whether or not you “follow” a tag, you can always look at the posts under that tag. All posts which have been tagged for that topic should be listed. Using tags, we can keep our information more organized and easier for others to find. If you believe that an additional “tag” is needed, please contact Info@AsiaPacificCDA.org. We can add new tags. Interest Groups Tip Interest Groups offer another way to be sure you know when topics are discussed that interest you. The three most popular Interest groups are:
Please make interest groups interesting by posting information, questions, or observations in these groups. Being part of an Interest Group does not involve a commitment to put time into the group, but they will be more interesting if you remember to post questions or interesting ideas in them. Members are invited to join Committees. Committees are the backbone of APCDA. They make many of the activities of APCDA happen. For example, the Program Committee selects the webinar topics. The Membership Committee encourages potential members to join through Meetups and provides Orientations for new members. Please join a committee to help APCDA grow and better serve our members. Committee participation is also a great way to develop your professional skills. Additionally, committee work is a wonderful way to get to know other members and develop an international network. The more energy you put into committees, the more benefits you will get back from APCDA. APCDA is much more than our annual conferences! Maximize your APCDA membership and actively participate. More Help For detailed instructions for any page in this community, visit the ZenDesk: https://tradewing.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/4402989916055-The-Community Please help to make our Member Community an interesting place to visit – and please visit often. |
Where do APCDA Members Live?Currently, the countries with the largest percentage of members are:
We also have members in Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Canada, China, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Korea, Republic of, Macau, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Qatar, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. Join us! |
Introducing Ha Nguyen, APCDA’s New Executive Director
While working with ChildFund, Ha supported sponsors from a variety of countries who visited Vietnam to learn about the programs they had funded. Through this experience, she learned to work with people from many countries who have different values and goals, and to help them to appreciate the ways in which they can work together with people in Vietnam to achieve their goals. This background is very relevant for working with an association like APCDA that serves many countries and strives to find ways that we can work together to advance career development. Ha brings a fresh perspective and a lot of energy, and we are happy to have her with us. Contact Ms. Nguyen at Ha@AsiaPacificCDA.org. Although Gyulnur Isparova is no longer on the staff of APCDA, she remains a Lifetime Member of the Association and plans to continue serving its interests through various committees and events. We are very grateful to Gyulnur for the hard work and dedication she provided in her years with APCDA and happy that we are not saying goodbye as she refocuses on her future endeavors. |
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APCDA Partnering with IAEVG for 2022 Hybrid Conference
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Career Support for Arabic Youth Boosted by QCDC’s Arabic Edition of Career Development Terms GlossaryInitiative part of QCDC’s ongoing efforts to promote Arabic language resources
Primarily intended to serve as a resource for professionals in the career development and vocational assessment field, the Arabic guide will assist career counselors, academic advisors, career practitioners, human resource professionals, trainers and teachers working with Qatari and Arab youth, across the region and globally, in planning their career paths. Given the diversity of the field, the glossary is an important step toward establishing a shared understanding of commonly used terms and phrases. The Arabic edition will be dynamic and continue to develop and grow as experts suggest improvements or additions to its contents. QCDC, a Qatar Foundation (QF) member, has long endeavored to address the gap in Arabic resources in the field of career guidance and professional development, which continues to pose an obstacle to QCDC’s mission to provide support services for Arab youth. Mr. Abdulla Al-Mansoori, Director, QCDC, said: “Through this latest initiative, QCDC has made an important contribution to the promotion of the Arabic language, offering a resource to Arabic speakers and professionals around the world for creating impactful content and training programs. The achievement will empower career development experts to better guide our youth, not only in Qatar but all across the Arab World, on their ambitious career journeys.” APCDA is a non-profit association incorporated for educational purposes in the state of Maryland, USA, providing training for specialists engaged in facilitating career development in the Asia Pacific region. Conferences, workshops and networking events enable the exchange of knowledge and collaboration on professional projects. The initial development of the Glossary in English stemmed from APCDA’s objective for the Asia Pacific region to speak the same language related to career planning and development. The English language glossary was completed in 2017, with the aim of eventually offering versions in all languages spoken by its members. Gulnur Ismayil-Isparova, Executive Director, APCDA, said: We embrace more than 300 members from over 20 countries around the world under the APCDA umbrella. Association is a wide multicultural and multilingual platform. It is important for us to ensure the exchange of ideas and best practices is communicated smoothly. The Glossary gives us chance to understand each other and effectively serve our clients in various corners of our regional coverage. We are thankful to Qatar Career Development Center for this valuable contribution and opening access to the APCDA glossary for Arabic speaking nationalities.” As a member of APCDA, QCDC has traditionally participated in their annual conference and the publication of an Arabic edition of the glossary was therefore the next logical step, which enables APCDA to now offer this important resource to all its members. In recent years, QF has increased its efforts to promote Arabic, the world’s sixth most spoken language. QF has launched several initiatives to address the challenges of modernizing academic programs and incentivizing linguistic institutions to keep abreast of technological advances in a bid to promote classical Arabic, which faces intense competition from colloquial dialects. In keeping up with that mission and as part of its own efforts to promote career guidance resources in Arabic, QCDC was the first institution to offer the Career Advisor Training Course in both Arabic and English, in Qatar and the GCC region. The program aims to equip professionals with the basic skills and knowledge to offer career planning and counseling services to guide Qatari youth to embark on career paths. More than 150 participants have successfully graduated from the program to date. |
Announcing the NewAPCDA Ethical GuidelinesAdopted October 2020 by the APCDA Board
According to Dr. Brian Hutchison, “Upon reflection, this is what makes us a professional body in that we are a band of similar and dissimilar professionals in so many intricate ways that only an agreed upon set of principles, grounded in common values makes us one body. It does not feel like hyperbole to me to say that today I think APCDA became a professional organization in the truest sense of the word.” We recommend that each member read these ethical guidelines and think about their implications for practice. In order to make them come to life for our members, Dr. Chopra has planned a series of Member Webinars in 2021 to review case studies related to ethics and discus our real life examples of time when ethics may get trampled by expediency or financial constraints. We hope you will join these webinars/ You can find the APCDA Ethical Guidelines here, which is under Resources on our website. |
APCDA Career Services CompetenciesApril 2020
This Competencies List is intended to be used in conjunction with the APCDA Glossary of Career Development Terms. The definitions of terms will be helpful in understanding these competencies. These Competencies reference the APCDA Ethical Guidelines, which are available here: https://AsiaPacificCDA.org/ethical-guidelines This list will be revised as needed. Suggestions for additions and revisions should be submitted to Ethics@AsiaPacificCDA.org. |
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Members are invited to get a copy of the new Member Logo from the APCDA Website. Now that we have a legal agreement published on our website, is it possible for us to provide a logo for use by our members. We currently have three kinds of member logos:
If you fall into the third group, you should have received the logo from us by email. |