Cannexus22 In-Person | En personne

In response to the pandemic, NPower Canada pivoted its approach to employer engagement, shifting their partnership cultivation efforts toward the industry segments and types of companies that continued to hire digital talent. As a result of these pivots, NPower Canada has continued to achieve its 80% post-program job placement success target, and developed new, more agile employer engagement practices.

Learning Outcomes:

• Employer engagement during a pandemic 
• Understanding evolving employer needs 
• Refining workforce development programs to support improved employment outcomes

En réponse à la pandémie, NPower Canada a modifié son approche de l’engagement des employeurs, en orientant ses efforts de partenariat vers les segments industriels et les types d’entreprises qui continuent d’embaucher des talents dans le domaine des technologies numériques. Grâce à cette réorientation, NPower Canada a continué à atteindre son objectif de 80 % de réussite en matière de placement après le programme, en plus d’établir de nouvelles pratiques plus souples en matière d’engagement des employeurs.

Objectifs d’apprentissage :

• L’engagement des employeurs durant une pandémie     
• Comprendre l’évolution des besoins des employeurs    
• Affiner les programmes de développement de la main-d’œuvre afin de favoriser de meilleurs résultats en matière d’emploi

Career is more than a number of isolated activities or episodes addressed when necessary. Our life-long journey is to a large extent the sum of our habits, good or bad. How can we present career in a way that encourages the cultivating of conscious habits that are key to sustaining positive change and growth on our life/career journeys?

Learning Outcomes:

• Understanding the impact of habits in our life/career journey    
• Setting forth the steps to cultivating conscious habits    
• Leveraging habits into our career development  tools and processes

Emotional intelligence (EQ) predicts salary outcomes, performance, promotion and even health outcomes. Learning how to develop EQ is paramount to career development, and yet there are still so many questions surrounding this topic. Learn how EQ is defined across disciplines and research, how it connects to employment success and why it is so important for the future of work.

Learning Outcomes:

• Learn how EQ is defined across disciplines and research     
• Understand how EQ links to employment success in the workplace     
• Understand how EQ development is a critical career development strategy

When we hear the words "mental health," most of us think of mental illness. Professionals, researchers and theoreticians share this confusion and research literature abounds with different conceptualizations and definitions of mental health. This session explores current definitions and evidence to clarify what mental health is. A measure is introduced along with evidence and feedback from Canadian career development practitioners.

Learning Outcomes:

• Current definitions of mental health and mental illness    
• Common elements of contemporary definitions of mental health    
• An evidence-based framework for developing a current measure

This presentation reveals the systemic flaws in government policy and service delivery for jobseekers with employment barriers, while proposing solutions to address them. It is cheeky and funny, while communicating the brutal and serious issues that need to be addressed, globally.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understanding the dark side of performance measurement and management    
• Reflection on effective career development practice    
• Solutions to solving the broader issues in policy and practice