Job Postings & Events - Career Development Connections

Job Postings Alert

Issue No. 25

Job Postings

Here is a list of the new job postings available on Career Development Connections! Older postings are still available on the website as well!

If you have a job posting you would like included, email Denise@CareerDevelopmentConnections.com

New! Agora Employment Essentials Inc (company of MCCBC)

Receptionist/Greeter - Work BC Employment Centre

Abbotsford, BC

Closing Date March 14, 2012

New! Bowman Employment Services

Case Manager - Summerland, BC

Financial Agreement Services Coordinator - Penticton, BC

Resource Centre Facilitator - Summerland, BC

Closing Date March 14, 2012

New! Douglas College

Career Consultant - Skills Connect Program - Surrey, BC

Closing Date Open Until Filled

New! Nelson & District Youth Centre

Youth Employment Counsellor - Nelson & Castlegar, BC

Closing Date March 16, 2012

New! Pacific Community Resources Society

ESC Case Manager - New Westminster, BC

Closing Date March 16, 2012

New! Selkirk College

Manager Contract Training and Continuing Education - Selkirk, BC

Closing Date March 19, 2012

New! VIVRS

Employment Specialist - Duncan, BC

Closing Date March 14, 2012

New! YMCA-YWCA Jumpstart to Employment Essentials

Assistant Program Facilitator - Penticton, BC

Closing Date March 19, 2012

over 20 other jobs still posted on the website - check them out!

www.CareerDevelopmentConnections.com

Jobs in Human Resources, Administration and other non-career development industries are posted on www.EngagedHR.com/job-postings.html.

Get Social

Twitter Chat
Every Friday, 11 am
#HIireCAN

For those of you at the CDC 2012, you may have attended sessions on social media such as Building Community Through Social Media & Online Tools and a tool spectific session on Linked In. Matt Oliver is doing some great work in this area and you should check him out! www.mattoliver.com. If you are using Twitter, you may have the heard of the Canadian specific content being shared on the Twitter Chat #HireCAN. This is a great opportunity for you to network, share resources and discuss specific topics related to the job search and career development field. Practitioners from all over BC are joining in the discussion and this is a great way to get used to Twitter, to find some followers and to engaged in some great conversation.

For those of you who are looking for some great job search and career development people to follow on Twitter, there are some great Canadian and US twitter folks out there. Consider following these folks! This is just a short list - there are lots more!

Denise Lloyd *ME* - @EngagedHR

Matt Oliver - @matt_oliver

CERIC - @Ceric_ca

Sheny Gregory - @shenyker

Miranda van de Kuyt - @mvandekuyt

Gregg Taylor - @GreggTCareerGuy

Sarah Nelson - @SarahNelson71

James Wilson - @JamesWilson

Resume Bear - @onlineresume

Jessica Merrell - @blogging4jobs

Rich DeMatteo - @CornOnTheJob

Susan P. Joyce - @JobHuntOrg

Alan Kearns - @CareerJoy

ProJobber - @ProJobber

Career Bliss - @careerbliss

Brazen Careerist - @BrazenCareerist

Undercover Recruiter - @undercoverrec

Julia Erickson - @juliaerickson

I am going to make an effort to make the #HireCAN chats as often as I can and I look forward to seeing you there! And if you follow me, I will be sure to follow you back!

Quick Links

Go to Engaged HR website

Go to Career Development Connections website

Thought for the Week

WOW! I just updated the issue number to 25! That feels like a real milestone! This service to the industry had evolved to something pretty cool and is clearly meeting a need. I received a ton of positive feedback from people when at CDC2012 (thank you for thanking me!). It was so nice to meet you guys IRL (in real life!) as I feel like I talk to you each week!

Speaking of CDC2012, it was great to attend the event and to be able to hear so many awesome speakers. This event has continually raised the bar for professional development for the sector and this year hit that mark again. A big congratulations goes out to Jayne Barron for winning Career Practitioner of Year, Cyndy Greeno for Mentor of the Year and Triangle Community Resources Inc for Organization of the Year. Whoo hoo - nice work everyone!

March is flying by already! Hope you remembered to spring your clocks forward and that you enjoy that extra day light at the end of the day!

Thanks to all of you for subscribing and enjoy your week!

Life-Long Learning

Educational Opportunities

CANNEXUS12 - Virtual Conference- available now! A 15% discount to May 31!

NEW! CANNEXUS13 - Call for Presenters available - deadline is June 15, 2012. Conference Dates January 28 - 30, 2013.

Careerwell Teleseminars - March 2012

Douglas College - NEW Program! Employing People with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities - April 2012 start date.

ETHOS - Get Clients Now! -

Victoria - May 5 - June 2, 2012.

Life Strategies - various Career Development Practitioner courses for 2012

Working in Difficult Situations

New Date! May 9 & 10, 2012 - Vancouver, BC

Job Seeker Spotlight

If you are a job seeker in the career development industry then send me a short big (a paragraph or so in length) and I will include you in an upcoming newsletter. Be sure to include your contact information (email address would be best) and the type of position you are looking for as a part of your bio.

This is an opportunity to market yourself beyond your current techniques and is a way to show that you know how to take job search beyond the traditional methods!

Services Spotlight

This past week I had the pleasure of presenting to the Executive Directors of Immigrant Services Agencies from all over BC. They were together for a professional development event hosted by AMSSA (www.AMSSA.org). I presented on the topic of Staff Development and Motivation and focused the concepts towards retention strategies in times of change.

What resonated for me in the discussions was that Executive Directors and Program Managers are working so hard right now that many of the typical retention strategies that have been in place in an organization are falling by the wayside. They are not longer doing things like offering flexible schedules, providing ongoing feedback or consulting for input as much as they should. All things that contribute to a high morale and an engaged workforce! Instead, we are heads down, focused on getting the job done and not paying attention to the messages that are going on around us. And then we wonder why people are unhappy or why people aren't stepping up to go the extra mile at this time of intense workload demands

I will be blogging about these various retention strategies over the next few weeks so stayed tuned! And if you want more on this, give me a call and I can share my presentation with you or I can come in and discuss with your staff/managers.

About Us

Career Development Connections is an initiative of Engaged HR Inc. The services available through Career Development Connections include Career Coaching, Recruitment Services and FREE Job Postings, Organizational Analysis and Human Resource Management Strategies and Supports.

Engaged HR is a full-service human resource management consulting company owned and operated by Denise Lloyd, focused on designing, implementing and supporting innovative business models to build the HR and management capacity of businesses and non-profit societies. Engaged HR is a dynamic company with the kind of leading edge skills and talents it takes to complete projects to the highest standards.

We look forward to the opportunity to work with you! You can reach me at 250-385-7784.

Denise Lloyd, MA, CHRP

Engaged HR Inc.