Leadership & Career Coach Talk with Jennifer Kirkelund
Jennifer Kirkelund is passionate about coaching professionals to achieve success in all aspects of their lives. The purpose of her work is to assist clients to build resilience through personal growth and development. With the application of a solution-focused coaching process, Jennifer challenges and empowers individuals to identify values, strengths, and abilities. Through the application of innovative thinking and critical analysis, clients clarify goals and create strategic action plans. She provides attention to awareness and confidence to increase self-efficacy in individuals.
Employment in various levels of Government has included constituency, legislative, minister’s offices and departments. Jennifer has enjoyed working creatively and collaboratively with professionals, providing guidance and support to corporate leaders. The purpose of her work is to help individuals develop career resilience through personal growth and development. Jennifer provides leadership coaching, professional development, performance excellence and effective conversations.
Description
Employment counsellors provide assistance and information to job seeker clients on all aspects of employment search and career planning. They also provide advice and information to employer clients regarding employment issues and human resources. They are employed by human resource departments of establishments, employment service organizations, consulting firms, correctional facilities and by federal and provincial governments. Supervisors of employment counsellors are included in this unit group.
Job Forecast
In order to determine the expected outlook of an occupation, the magnitude of the difference between the projected total numbers of new job seekers and job openings over the whole projection period (2019-2028) is analyzed in conjunction with an assessment of labour market conditions in recent years. The intention is to determine if recent labour market conditions (surplus, balance or shortage) are expected to persist or change over the period 2019-2028. For instance, if the analysis of key labour market indicators suggests that the number of job seekers was insufficient to fill the job openings (a shortage of workers) in an occupational group in recent years, the projections are used to assess if this situation will continue over the projection period or if the occupation will move towards balanced conditions. The analysis of key labour market indicators such as job vacancies and employment growth as well as the unemployment rate suggests that the number of job seekers was sufficient to fill the job openings in this occupational group over the 2016-2018 period.
Employment Requirements
A bachelor’s degree or college diploma in employment counselling, career development or in a related field, such as human resources development, psychology, education or social services is required. A master’s degree in counselling psychology or a related field such as educational psychology, developmental psychology or social work may be required. In Quebec, membership in a professional association is mandatory to use the title ”counsellor”.
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