Career Development Professionals work with people of all ages to help them manage their learning, work, and transitions.
The goal of career services is to help people to pursue learning and to find work which is personally meaningful and to learn how to manage transitions in today’s ever-evolving labour market, read more
On PEI, they are employed in settings such as:
- Employment Assistance Services
- Community Sector Network: organizations/agencies- Non-profit
- Labour Market Specialties
- Workforce, Advanced Learning, and Population (government such as SkillsPEI)
- Sector Councils/Associations
- Department of Education and Early Years: career related subjects and supports
- Private Employers: Human Resources departments
- Post-Secondary Education & Training Institutions: Career Services
Dive into a selection of CERIC’s most-popular webinars – now available on-demand for the first time through CERIC’s new Learning Hub!
Canadian Association for Supported Employment (CASE)
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A National Advocacy Campaign for Career Development in Canada, click here
Career Development Professional Centre newsletter, click here
CERIC developed a set of Guiding Principles outlining the many benefits of career development profession, click here
Hidden Sector, Hidden Talent: Mapping Canada’s Career Development Sector” is ground-breaking evidence launched in 2024, click here
Master of counselling programs in Canada, click here
Challenge Factory and the Canadian Career Development Foundation developed the Career Development Maturity MatrixTM a practical, evidence-backed tool that helps assess how deeply career development is embedded in your systems—not just in theory, but in action.
IM&M+ has transformed lives and communities across Canada. It is a career development group-based program with a difference, providing experiences and opportunities for people who may have had repeated setbacks to traditional learning and/or work.
The pace of change in work has never been faster – and leaders tell us the hardest part is finding time to make sense of it all.
That’s why Challenge Factory created the Workforce Architecture Annual Compendium 2025, a single resource that distills most essential insights on AI, leadership, reskilling, and labour market forces into one actionable blueprint.
Meet PEI Career Development Professionals
- Canada Career Month 2024: UPEI Experiential Education – Shannon Snow, Work-Integrated Program Officer
- Canada Career Month 2024: UPEI Experiential Education – Krissi Ewing, Student Coordinator, CO-OP
- Canada Career Month 2024: UPEI Experiential Education – Marshall Mayne, Counselling Intern
- Canada Career Month 2024: Career Development Services – Nathan Jones, Career Development Practitioner
- Canada Career Month 2024: UPEI Experiential Education- Kylah Hennessey, Career Counselor
- Canada Career Month 2024: UPEI Experiential Education – Jess’s career journey
- Career development professional recognized for boosting employment inclusion
- New location for Career Development Services in West Prince
Job seekers services, programs and bursaries
How Employment Services Help Youth with Disabilities Succeed
Youth employment programs
News you can use
- LinkedIn and The Wall Street Journal explores why career development has become a top priority for organizations in 2025: Career development done right creates a virtuous cycle between individual growth and organizational performance.
- Older adult loneliness will cost Canada billions – lifelong career development can change that
- Lisa Taylor from The Challenge Factory argues that Canada’s youth don’t just need more skills to survive the AI economy—they need career literacy to navigate it with purpose, agency, and long-term success
- Challenge Factory CEO Lisa Taylor joined the MACD Career Conversations podcast to unpack the findings of our groundbreaking report on Canada’s hidden career development sector
Help with career management
- Path Pilot and OpportuNext unleash AI assistants to support those seeking employment
- Community Inclusions provides a variety of services and staffing options
- How do career development professionals deliver labour market information to their clients? Report January 2024
- How Career Development Professionals find and access LMI – January 2024
- Employment supports in the community for people experiencing mental illness
For more information about the Career Development profession on PEI, contact the Career Development Association of PEI, at cdaofpei@gmail.com.
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