Bon career: Tips for thriving in your career after you land your first job

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Although it seems like the major challenge, finding your first job is the beginning of a year-long journey. In an economic environment characterized by great speed, incessant change and much uncertainty, maintaining your employability remains an ongoing challenge once you find the first job. This session explores strategies you can take to approach your long-term career and maintain your employability.

In this workshop, you learn to:

• Describe the shift from career ladders to career frameworks for conceptualizing long-term employability
• Explain how both formal learning and developmental work within the context of jobs each play critical roles in employability
• Describe a five-part model for ongoing learning and development, which includes learning, development, networking, side hustles, and personal investments of finances and time
• Describe strategies for successfully networking for work-related purposes, even if you do not consider yourself to be an extrovert.

Facilitator: Saul Carliner is a Professor of Education at Concordia University and, with Margaret Driscoll and Yvonne Thayer, co-author of Career Anxiety: Guidance Through Tough Times.