CAREER DEVELOPMENT CONNECTIONS
Inspiring, educating and sharing best practices in career development
Through an Essential Skills Lens
The 21st century workplace needs a skilled workforce that’s efficient, effective and adaptable. As a result, workers need to learn the skills required to perform successfully at work.
Benefits of Volunteering
Manitobans truly embody the voluntary spirit. According to the 2007 Canadian Survey of Giving, Volunteering and Participating, each Manitoban volunteered an average of 159 hours per year.
Labour Market Information
The economic downturn has resulted in a changing labour market that’s experiencing greater than usual structural change in a relatively short time.
Career Development Practitioner Certificate
This certificate program provides professional training to “career development practitioners” – an umbrella term referring to any direct service provider in the career development field.
Grow Creatively
The Grow Creatively website is designed to provide career development resources for Manitobans considering a career in the province’s arts and cultural industries.
Workplace Education Manitoba
Workplace Education Manitoba (WEM) is considered an essential skills leader in Canada, with 20 years of expertise, experience and success, and an extensive record of essential skills (ES) solutions and partnerships.
A Success Story
Astried started working at an early age to help support her parents, who had health problems and couldn’t work.
Career Pathways
Northern Manitoba is truly the land of opportunity for adventurous, committed people seeking dynamic, lucrative careers. The resource industries of the North offer a virtually unlimited range of professional and trades careers.
WINTER 2012
Welcome to the first anniversary edition of Career Development Connections. We hope you have found the first year publications inspiring, educational and informative.
