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Life Design: A 21st c. Paradigm for Career Development | Neill | |
Principals of Group Career Counseling | Pyle | |
Staying Engaged When the Path is Uncharted | Borgen, Pickerell | |
Top 10 Tips for Conducting the Career Construction Interview |
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Career Creation in the New Normal Era and Support as a Career Counselor |
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Advocacy strategies for serving international students in the US: A participatory action research | Shao, Liu | |
ANUBHAV: A Crossway of Knowledge Capitalization from Academia to Industry |
Chopra, Bhatia | 134 |
ANUBHAV: A Crossway of Knowledge Capitalization from Academia to Industry |
Goswami | 134 |
APCDA Career Service Competencies: Supporting Quality Practice |
Hughes, Mate |
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Building Cultural Competency: Resources for Supporting Diverse Clients on Uncharted Paths |
Borgen, Hassany, Taylor |
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Career Adaptation Across the Lifespan: A comparison of transitions of university students and retired mentors |
Brown, Luke |
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Career Pathways made Relevant |
Tong |
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Class of 2020 - Building Resilience and Hope in Student Interns in the COVID-19 era |
Asato, Brown, Tran |
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Development and Validation of a Chinese Five-Factor Short Form of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale |
Sou |
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Empower Students to Navigate Careers: NYU Shanghai Career Development Center Student Ambassador Program |
Mai, Tang |
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Global Nomads Working Abroad and Coming Home: How Career Development Professionals Can Help |
Ahn, Borgen, Chudasama, Truong | |
How to Thrive in a New Job-less World: Create Your Own Job! |
Han |
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Impacts of Careers Services on Graduate Employability of University Students in Vietnam |
Vu | 536 |
Looking Down the Track: International Student Graduates and Employment Experiences |
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Providing virtual career services for college students from a college career center perspective |
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Social Support, Resilience and Work Readiness among University Students in Malaysia: A Preliminary Study |
Lau, Voon |
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Standards in Computer-Based and Internet-Delivered Testing: Finding the Middle Ground in a Pandemic |
Mamauag |
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Supporting Clients Who Are Neurodiverse |
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The Assessment of Validity and Reliability of Personal Globe Inventory-Short in Indonesian Language |
Liusmin, Gunawan | |
The Role of Career Counselors for People from Diverse Backgrounds |
Kato |
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Validation and Reliability of Perceived Future Employability Scale for Young Adults in Indonesia |
Matius, Gunawan |
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What Motivates Asia Pacific University Students to Pursue Careers in Human Resources? |
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Australia’s Got Fresh Talent – A Disruptive Program to Help Skilled Migrants Find Work |
Gadani |
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Career Development: The Secret Sauce to Become a Radical HR Change Agent |
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Discovering your Passion through Career Exploration Journey |
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Introducing and localizing CCI in Japan |
Hasagawa, Mizuno |
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Journey through Uncertainty to Emerging with Hope and Positivity |
Liew Dewen |
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Meaning of life and career design for Chinese middle-aged female educators |
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Navigating Through Unprecedented Challenges Towards Career Aspiration |
Ng |
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Rethinking Career Engagement for Older Workers: Adapting to a Changing Workforce |
Borgen, Borgen, Luke | |
Work-life Wellness for Teleworking in a Pandemic Context |
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Blastoff! Launching College Placements in Chinese High Schools |
Xiao, Montgomery |
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Build Online Personal Branding For Counsellors |
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Building Resilience & Adaptability using Role Models. A brief 15-minute Strengths Based Intervention |
Glavin, Tan, Wong |
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Career Development Education is Talent Development Education |
Liao |
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Changing the landscape of career development in the UAE |
Eghterafi |
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Early Career Decision Making and Career Sustainability in Times Of COVID-19 |
Prashanth |
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Find Inspiration, Purpose, Career Paths, and Resilient Jobs with UN 2030 Global Goals |
Redd, Ahn, Flanagan, Ho, Wylde |
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Igniting collective advocacy for careers work- Maximizing Career Guidance |
Abbas |
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Social Emotional Learning and Career Development from Kindergarten to Higher Education |
Culberson, Ho |
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To Soar Like an Eagle You Need Strong Wings & Understand Thermals |
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Keynote: Constructing Career Paths: From Finding to Designing a Work Life by Dr. Mark Savickas
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Australia’s Got Fresh Talent – A Disruptive Program to Help Skilled Migrants Find Work by Naishadh Gadani Professional and skilled migrants arriving in Australia find it difficult to land a job in their chosen profession. Australia’s Got Fresh Talent is a program that addresses migrant unemployment issues. In this program, migrants receive extensive training that prepares them for employment in Australia and an opportunity to pitch to employers, decision makers and recruiters. In a 3-min pitch, migrants share their professional story. We work with migrants to invite targeted employers and recruiters who are currently hiring professionals with skills that match theirs. This enables recruiters/employers to learn about migrants, interact and network with them, and assess their fit for a potential job. |
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Class of 2020 - Building Resilience and Hope in Student Interns in the COVID-19 Era by Felicity Brown, Eric Asato, and Hanh Tran Since 2017, RMIT University Vietnam has run customized employability skills workshops focusing on Resilience and Interpersonal Skills for students enrolled in credit-bearing internship courses. These workshops recall students to campus several weeks into the internship, enabling the students to reflect on their workplace experiences in a familiar environment, share their learnings with classmates and acquire practical techniques from the facilitators and former interns. This presentation will be part skill builder/part sharing practice about the enhanced design, development and delivery of the internship workshops supporting RMIT graduates to handle the rigors of workplaces in 2020 and beyond. |
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The Role of Career Counselors for People from Diverse Backgrounds by Mai Kato Consulting for international students, I found that every student had a hard time finding a job in Japan after graduation. Many of them cannot even access the placement service programs provided by schools and local governments. Why does this occur? What type of skills should counselors build and how can they recognize the difference in support for international students and for locals, or does the distinction really help the clients? More than ever before, consultants need to reconsider the role and the place in a support team in such circumstances. |
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Career Creation in the New Normal Era and Support as a Career Counselor by Momoko Asaka Work environment and daily lives have changed significantly with requests of business suspension and stay-at-home under the state of emergency declaration due to COVID-19. Some of my clients say "I'm confused because I must work from home" or "I've lost my income." Many teachers who are unexpectedly forced to provide online lessons in a short period of time are stressed by the lack of understanding of online tools. In addition, self-employed and freelancers have complained that they are available but can't get any work. We will consider what perspective helps career counselors to engage clients based on examples. |
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APCDA Career Service Competencies: Supporting Quality Practice by Catherine Hughes and Susan Mate Career practitioners often talk about skills, but today’s employers prefer the term “Competencies,” which break work tasks into specific components. Competencies are building blocks for standards, job descriptions, and skills assessment. APCDA Career Service Competencies include both Core Competencies (common to all career practitioners) and Specialized Competencies that may depend on work setting, job requirements, or the country in which the work is being done. We will also discuss cultural differences associated with practitioner work in varied countries and the emphasis of the Career Industry Association in Australia. Competencies can be overwhelming, until we learn how to use them and identify with them in our work as practitioners. Two highly experienced career professionals will help us to understand the value and uses of these competencies. |
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Dr. Susan Mate, PhD, is an educator and researcher is the field of Career Development and Workplace learning. As a Program Manager in the School of Education for the Graduate Certificate in career development at RMIT she is committed to evidence-informed learning. She holds a PhD focusing on Learning in the Workplace and a background in education design. Her current research interest involves developing and refining learning materials that focus on fostering student partnership with a strong interest in narrative, career, professional and gender Identity. | |
Development and Validation of a Chinese Five-Factor Short Form of the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale by Elvo Sou The Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS) is a wildly used measure of career adaptability, with four factors of concern, control, curiosity, and confidence. Recent research validated a 12-item version of the scale (CAAS-SF) and a five-factor version that includes the additional factor of cooperation (CAAS-5). Using a sample of 326 university graduates in Macao who had gained employment, the present study developed and validated a brief 15-item five-factor version of the scale (CAAS-5-SF). Results showed that CAAS-5-SF has good psychometric properties and is a suitable tool for measuring five-factor career adaptability. Implications for research and practice are discussed. |
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Career Adaptation Across the Lifespan: A Comparison of Transitions of University Students and Retired Mentors by Jason Brown, Jennifer Luke Career Construction Theory (Savickas, 2005; 2013) provides a useful framework for understanding how psychosocial factors and engagement in career adaptive behaviors supports an individual’s transitions through major lifespan stages. We describe the findings from two independent qualitative studies. The first study reports on focus group research with 25 students at an Australian university about their engagement in activities to enhance their employability. The second study reports on thematic analysis results from interviews with 30 post-retirement age Australian participants about re-engaging with career and mentoring younger workers. We will briefly discuss the implications for research and practice. |
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Journey Through Uncertainty to Emerging with Hope and Positivity by Asher Liew Dewen This program features career coaching techniques that brought about not just renewal in career but hope for the client as well. Our client is a middle-aged professional whose career took an unexpected turn after being retrenched. He gradually lost his confidence and hope as he faced career uncertainties while struggling with his midlife stressors. Through solution-focused coaching and Synder’s Hope Theory, career coach helped this client regain confidence and optimism in his career situation. As hope motivates behavior, our client managed to leverage his newly constructed strategies to secure himself a new lease in his career. |
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Empower Students to Navigate Careers: NYU Shanghai Career Development Center Student Ambassador Program by Ji Tang and Manru Ma The COVID-19 pandemic caused severe impact to the education industry, especially for university operations and college students. Although our career center had dramatically increased the ability to serve students online, we still faced uncertainties both internally and externally. NYU Shanghai CDC developed a framework to facilitate students’ 4-year career development journey at NYU Shanghai. The framework contains four stages: Explore, Vision, Develop and Impact. We will elaborate a case study of CDC’s Student Ambassadors Program to show how CDC practices EVDI framework and to demonstrate how CDC utilizes this program to help students explore career interests, narrow down their goals, develop relevant skills and create a bigger impact. |
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Ms. Ji Tang received her BA in Political Science and Public Administration from Nanjing University and her master’s degree in International Studies at the University of Washington. She worked at the Chancellor's Office at Duke Kunshan University and then at the Career Development Center (CDC) at New York University Shanghai after graduation. She is now the Manager of the New York University Shanghai CDC, in charge of establishing and managing external relations with alumni, government, and international and social organizations. Ji Tang participated in research projects on higher education reform in Jiangsu Province, and also in research projects commissioned by the Ministry of Education. |
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ANUBHAV: A Crossway of Knowledge Capitalization from Academia to Industry by Dr. Harpreet Bhatia and Dr. Vandana Gambhir Chopra The purpose of this paper is to describe the collaboration between university and industry through ANUBHAV, the Internship Cell of the Department of Psychology of Keshav Mahavidyalaya. The cell bridges the academia industry gap and charts the career paths of students by forming a liaison between them and organizations. The cell imparts technical and behavioral skills to students through various career guidance and skill immersion programs. ANUBHAV is a framework of cooperation between organizations and higher education serving multifold purposes of cooperative teaching, enterprise development, contract research, and campus companies. This paper gives an overview of lessons learned in the structure and establishment of collaborative programs. |
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Staying Engaged when the Path is Uncharted by Dr. Roberta Borgen (Neault) and Dr. Deirdre Pickerell The recent global pandemic pushed countless workers into their homes and challenged businesses, educational providers, and non-profits to innovate in order to survive. Some workplaces and workers shifted relatively quickly within a rapidly changing landscape. Those who were able to keep staff/faculty and customers/clients engaged, were the ones who were able to do more than just survive – they thrived with adaptability, resilience, and community. Hear two career development innovators share examples of walking on uncharted paths and reflect on lessons learned to support individuals and organizations navigating pandemic-related challenges. |
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Validation and Reliability of Perceived Future Employability Scale for Young Adults in Indonesia by Anastasia Christy Matius Perceived future employability (PFE) in young adults concerns young people’s perceptions of their future skills, experience, networks, personal traits, labor market knowledge, and institutional reputation at the time of completing their formal education (Gunawan, 2018). This presentation will discuss the process of validation and reliability of PFE in Indonesia. |
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The Assessment of Validity and Reliability of the Personal Globe Inventory-Short in Indonesian Language by Santi Liusmin Vocational interest is assessed for figuring out and giving us insight to make our career decision. Personal Globe Inventory–Short assesses vocational interest with one new dimension, called prestige. This provides the results in a diagram form, enabling a review of the interest area with more information. This presentation will discuss the process and result of validity and reliability assessment on Personal Globe Inventory-Short in Indonesian Language. |
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Finding Hope in Liminal Space by Dr. Norm Amundson and Ms Andrea Fruhling Liminal space is the uncharted space that exists between “what has been” and “what will be.” These unchartered pathways are times for transition and change, holding the possibility of greater creativity and innovation. The most dramatic manifestations of liminal space happen after an extreme event. Hope-action theory and practice provides a framework for understanding and working within the challenging times we are in. Join Norm Amundson and Andrea Fruhling as they illustrate ways to explore the opportunities that come with being in liminal space. Hope is more than just a good feeling; it is a keystone around which we can incorporate a set of learned competencies. |
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Rethinking Career Engagement for Older Workers: Adapting to a Changing Workforce by Jennifer Luke, Roberta Borgen (Neault) and William Borgen The options for life after 50 are plentiful – retire early, continue to work well into your ‘70s or ‘80s, downshift a bit, or change career direction entirely. Join us to deepen your understanding of “mature” workers’ motivations. Leave better equipped to support their engagement (or re-engagement) in rapidly changing workplaces and in all their life roles as they seek meaningful work and valuable relationships as mentors. Leave equipped to promote policy and professional practice conversations about the value of older workers and their career development needs. |
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Jennifer Luke and Dr. Roberta Borgen (Neault) are described above. |
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Find Inspiration, Purpose, Career Paths, and Resilient Jobs with UN 2030 Global Goals by Danita Redd, Soonhoon Ahn, Hilary Flanagan, Dr. Candy Ho, and Jim Wylde The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted by the United Nations in 2015, which provides a shared vision for global partnership by all countries to promote peace and prosperity for people and planet Earth, now and into the future. The document identifies 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ranging from eradicating poverty and hunger to addressing climate change and building inclusive societies by 2030. This session will explore how the SDGs have become core for establishing optimism and inspiring students in the US and Canada in finding purpose, career paths, and resilient jobs. It will also examine through a dynamic slide presentation, sample University and Community College classroom activities in a Counselor Education Program, Career Development and Life Planning course, and a Graduate Fellows' course for the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area. |
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To Soar Like an Eagle You Need Strong Wings and to Understand Thermals by Allan Gatenby Graduates are entering a vastly different and rapidly changing world. Inner strength, resilience and knowledge of opportunities for entrepreneurial activity are the new norms. Career development in schools is changing the traditional focus upon employability to the more entrepreneurial competency and character traits of the 21st Century. Life-design approaches offer more realistic optimism than failed individualism. Psychology is no longer the only foundation discipline for career practitioners. Career education is no longer an optional extra in a crowded curriculum. Whole school development and leadership are new dimensions to the career practitioner role. |
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How to Thrive in a New Job-less World: Create Your Own Job! by Han Kok Kwang With the triple whammy of the Pandemic, Increasing Protectionism, and New Technology (e.g. Artificial Intelligence and the Internet), many job tasks will be replaced. Many more jobs will be lost. In a job-less world, competition for jobs is intense. For every job opening, there could be 1,000 competitors. How will you compete? In the wise words of Darwin, only the adaptable will survive. Join us for this and discover the way forward by creating your own job. Learn to stand out in a crowded world and be the obvious choice. This could be the career break you are looking for! |
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Top 10 Tips for Conducting the Career Construction Interview by Dr. Kevin Glavin Learn and practice these top 10 tips to help you conduct the Career Construction Interview (CCI; Savickas, 2005) with greater confidence and effectiveness. The CCI is a qualitative intervention used to help individuals explore educational/vocational options, navigate occupational transitions, and construct the next chapter in their career story. The subjective nature of narrative interventions can be challenging for beginning practitioners. However, we learn more from our mistakes than we do from our successes. Learn the most common mistakes practitioners make when conducting the CCI and how to solve challenging client situations. |
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Social Support, Resilience, and Work Readiness among University Students in Malaysia: A Preliminary Study by Dr. Poh Li Lau and Dr. Voon Siok Ping This study was designed to examine the relationships among social support, resilience, and work readiness among university students in Malaysia (N = 320). Social support was positively associated with work readiness as hypothesized. The social support was significantly and positively correlated with resilience and work readiness. Resilience was also significantly and positively associated with work readiness. Using structural equation modeling, the model with three variables which are social support, resilience and work-readiness were tested. |
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Work-life Wellness for Teleworking in a Pandemic Context by Rebecca Como and Dr. José Domene Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many employees experienced a rapid transition to telework, often without adequate training and resources, and sometimes without any choice. We describe the existing body of knowledge on how the pandemic has influenced teleworking and work-life wellness, paying particular attention to the Asia Pacific region. Building from this research, we provide practice recommendations to career development professionals on how to better support clients during these pressing times. |
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Discovering your Passion through Career Exploration Journey by Parameswari Seenivasan Young adults often choose their career without realizing their personal interests. Many have landed in jobs without the passion in their work, leading to burn out, exhaustion at work and even depression. Fortunately for one young client, she was saved from going through this trauma through her partnership with her career coach on her career exploration journey, leveraging career theories such as Holland’s congruence theory of vocational choice, Schlossberg’s Transition 4-S Model and Donald Super’s life roles. Understanding one’s work personality and transiting to jobs that are congruent to one’s passion are the main aims of this program. |
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Career Pathways Made Relevant by Li Fern Tong “Opportunities favors the prepared.” Universities need to equip students with agility so they can thrive in the uncharted paths ahead of them. Through the collaboration of CAREERsense@HELP and the Department of Psychology, a career development series became part of the degree’s core subjects. One of the subjects has been recognized as relevant for career readiness and redesigned to include 4th Industrial Revolution skills development modules. The revamped subject will be implemented university-wide to equip students for the future of work. This presentation will share insights on course design development and feedback on how it has benefited the students. |
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Changing the Landscape of Career Development in the UAE by Svetlana Eghterafi This presentation will focus on introducing a systematic career development program to all schools in a country where career development and life-design counselling has not been viewed as being valuable. Lifology’s case study is of interest to all entities who wish to utilize technology for their career development programs to lead the younger generation towards a more fulfilling future by changing their global views and translating them into local actions. |
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Ms. Svetlana Eghterafi has been involved in the personal development of teens around the world for the past 15 years. As an animator of the Junior Youth Spiritual Empowerment Program and a tutor for the Ruhi Institute courses, Svetlana has facilitated individuals towards developing their skills and has accompanied them in the process of translating them into meaningful action. Her entry in the world of career development has been as the Regional Directory of Lifology for the MENA region where she has contributed her knowledge and experience to developing and carrying out programs for the career development of teenagers. |
Build Online Personal Branding for Counselors by Tuan Anh Le As a helper, you always want to help as many people as possible. Social media is the fastest way to achieve that. A strong online personal branding helps you to get closer to your clients and reach more people. In this workshop, you will learn the benefits to counselors of building online personal branding, understand some behaviors of students using social media, and practice some simple techniques to improve your own online personal branding. |
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Building Resilience & Adaptability using Role Models. A brief 15-minute Strengths Based Intervention by Dr. Kevin Glavin, Gerald Tan and Jeremiah Wong Join us as we demonstrate and show you how to conduct a powerful 15-minute career intervention using the role model question from the Career Construction Interview (CCI; Savickas, 2005). Learn how to use this intervention as a brief strength-based activity to help your clients build resilience and adaptability in a world of work characterized as volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (Bennett & Lemoine, 2014). |
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What Motivates Asia Pacific University Students to Pursue Careers in Human Resources? By Moana Numanga and Dr. Scott Springer What factors motivate Asia Pacific students, enrolled in bachelor’s degree programs at an American university, to pursue an academic path and career in human resources (HR) upon graduation? Our study sought to answer this question. We interviewed 36 Asia Pacific students from 12 different countries, asking them, among other questions, to identify the reasons why they chose HR as their career, and what challenges they expect to face in their home countries while working in HR. We will share the themes that emerged from these focus groups in our presentation and the implications these findings have on career coaching. |
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Early Career Decision Making and Career Sustainability in Times Of COVID-19 by Rodrick Prashanth The coronavirus pandemic has drastically reshaped the world of work. The current study examines how COVID-19 has impacted the career choice of students by comparing the prior and during-pandemic choices of two independent samples. Career preference was collected from 1409 and 410 senior school students before and during the COVID-19 period respectively. The significance of differences in student choices across twenty five careers was examined using Chi-square analysis. The results indicated significant differences in career clusters like Defence, Entrepreneurship, Medicine and Healthcare, Paramedical, Police, Sports, and Sales. |
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Rodrick Prashanth is a research enthusiast with a background in psychology. He holds a master’s degree in counselling psychology from the University of Madras and currently works as a research associate at BodhBridge ESPL and also as an assistant professor of psychology at Mohammed Sathak College of Arts and Science. His areas of research interest include career development, sport psychology, action-oriented psychotherapy, etc. He strongly believes that psychological research can solve the everyday problems of the world around us. |