BC
DEVELOPMENT
CDC 2018
CAREER
CONFERENCE
MARCH 5 & 6 2018
Thank You
See you in 2019
Sponsorship & Exhibition Opportunities
BCCDA offers a wide range of sponsorship packages that fit all sizes of budget!
If you are planning to have more than three attendees at our conference, remember to check our cost-effective sponsorship packages for complimentary passes and advertising opportunities.
Conference Pricing & Registration
Registration site is now OPEN.
Come join us on March 5th & 6th, 2018!
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To register, follow the instructions detailed in the Pricing and Registration page.
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ABOUT CDC 2018
Historically, the BC Career Development Conference has been a highly successful event generously filled with quality content as presented by top careerists from Canada, the United States, and other parts of the world. This is BC’s largest annual event devoted to the career development, management field and it will give participants the space to exchange ideas, discover new opportunities, reacquaint with colleagues, meet new friends, and broaden their knowledge.
Join us this year at the CDC 2018 to expand your network and equip yourself with the most current information and innovative tools to advance your career.
WHEN: March 5th & 6th, 2018
WHERE: Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront 1133 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, V6E 3T3
WHO: Last year there were over 600 career practitioners, this year as space is limited, we are expecting 350 settlement professionals, education providers, community service agencies, and business & industry leaders from across Canada.
Members and CCDP designates enjoy special discounts. Please log in to your member portal to register at the discounted rates.
Our registration site is NOW OPEN. Remember to register early to secure a spot at the largest Career Development Conference in BC and take advantage of the Early Bird rate!
Early Bird registration deadline is on February 5th, 2018.
600+
Professional Attendees
30+
Presenters & Industry Leaders
25+
Informative
Workshops
15+
Exhibition​Booths
600+
Professional Attendees
30+
Presenters & Industry Leaders
25+
Informative
Workshops
15+
Exhibition​Booths
CDC 2018 KEYNOTES
In the space between chaos and shape there is another chance.
Jim Bright is an Organisational Psychologist, Professorial Fellow in Career Education and Development at Australian Catholic University and Visiting Professor of Career Development at the University of Derby, UK. His primary research interests focus on the application of complexity and chaos approaches to career development, and leading educational change. He has published extensively on career development including 12 books and over 100 peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters, reports and careers tests.
Dr Bright combines his academic role with running Bright and Associates, a career development consultancy specialising in career coaching, medico-legal assessment, expert witness testimony and speaking and training. He has written over 1000 medico-legal reports related to vocational capacity, and has written a weekly careers column in the Sydney Morning Herald for over a decade.
Professor Jim is a widely experienced keynote and workshop presenter. He skilfully combines authority, intellect, humour and entertainment to convey important messages about change and creativity in an accessible, fun and memorable way.
Jim is a regular keynote presenter, and an invited or regular guest on various radio and television programs most particularly ABC Sydney Richard Glover’s Mid-Week Conference, as well as Life Matters, Sunrise, Today, Life and Style and Your Career on Foxtel. He is the co-author of the Chaos Theory of Careers published by Routledge. He is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Career Development Association of Australia, a member of the National Career Development Association, a Life Member of the Asia Pacific Career Development Association, an Honorary Board Member of the British Columbia Career Development Association and an International Fellow of National Institute of Counseling Education and Guidance UK.
Career development as border practices:
Constructing identities in the context of mobility and diversity
Dr. Hongxia Shan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education Studies, University of British Columbia. She specializes in adult education and professional learning in the context of mobility and diversity. One of her major areas of research focuses on the construction of career lives and career identities by immigrant professionals and im/migrant women vis-à-vis global flexible capitalism.
600+
Professional Attendees
30+
Presenters & Industry Leaders
25+
Informative
Workshops
15+
Exhibition​Booths
Jim Bright is an Organisational Psychologist, Professorial Fellow in Career Education and Development at Australian Catholic University and Visiting Professor of Career Development at the University of Derby, UK. His primary research interests focus on the application of complexity and chaos approaches to career development, and leading educational change. He has published extensively on career development including 12 books and over 100 peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters, reports and careers tests.
Dr Bright combines his academic role with running Bright and Associates, a career development consultancy specialising in career coaching, medico-legal assessment, expert witness testimony and speaking and training. He has written over 1000 medico-legal reports related to vocational capacity, and has written a weekly careers column in the Sydney Morning Herald for over a decade.
Professor Jim is a widely experienced keynote and workshop presenter. He skilfully combines authority, intellect, humour and entertainment to convey important messages about change and creativity in an accessible, fun and memorable way.
Jim is a regular keynote presenter, and an invited or regular guest on various radio and television programs most particularly ABC Sydney Richard Glover’s Mid-Week Conference, as well as Life Matters, Sunrise, Today, Life and Style and Your Career on Foxtel. He is the co-author of the Chaos Theory of Careers published by Routledge. He is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Career Development Association of Australia, a member of the National Career Development Association, a Life Member of the Asia Pacific Career Development Association, an Honorary Board Member of the British Columbia Career Development Association and an International Fellow of National Institute of Counseling Education and Guidance UK.
In the space between chaos and shape there is another chance.
Jim Bright is an Organisational Psychologist, Professorial Fellow in Career Education and Development at Australian Catholic University and Visiting Professor of Career Development at the University of Derby, UK. His primary research interests focus on the application of complexity and chaos approaches to career development, and leading educational change. He has published extensively on career development including 12 books and over 100 peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters, reports and careers tests.
Dr Bright combines his academic role with running Bright and Associates, a career development consultancy specialising in career coaching, medico-legal assessment, expert witness testimony and speaking and training. He has written over 1000 medico-legal reports related to vocational capacity, and has written a weekly careers column in the Sydney Morning Herald for over a decade.
Professor Jim is a widely experienced keynote and workshop presenter. He skilfully combines authority, intellect, humour and entertainment to convey important messages about change and creativity in an accessible, fun and memorable way.
Jim is a regular keynote presenter, and an invited or regular guest on various radio and television programs most particularly ABC Sydney Richard Glover’s Mid-Week Conference, as well as Life Matters, Sunrise, Today, Life and Style and Your Career on Foxtel. He is the co-author of the Chaos Theory of Careers published by Routledge. He is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society, a Fellow of the Career Development Association of Australia, a member of the National Career Development Association, a Life Member of the Asia Pacific Career Development Association, an Honorary Board Member of the British Columbia Career Development Association and an International Fellow of National Institute of Counseling Education and Guidance UK.
CLOSING KEYNOTE
Dr. HONGXIA SHAN
Career development as border practices:
Constructing identities in the context of mobility and diversity
Dr. Hongxia Shan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education Studies, University of British Columbia. She specializes in adult education and professional learning in the context of mobility and diversity. One of her major areas of research focuses on the construction of career lives and career identities by immigrant professionals and im/migrant women vis-à-vis global flexible capitalism.
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Continuous career development is premised on an assumption of who the individual subjects are within particular context of work and life. In classic career development theories, individuals are typically addressed as rational beings who should be assisted to make career decisions based on the compatibility of their personal traits with the demands of particular vocations. Such approaches have been challenged as career development researchers and practitioners started grappling with the complexity, instability, and uncertainty of the post-modern world. Today, individuals are typically constructed as “portfolio persons” who need to learn to narrate the self for a protean career in the brave new world of flexible capitalism. In this keynote talk, Dr. Hongxia Shan starts with an introduction of the changing context of work and life. She then gives an overview of the changing terrain of career development. She proceeds to highlight and, at the same time, complicate the narrative turn in the field. She argues that in the context of mobility and diversity, people of different social backgrounds are afforded with differential space to appear as legitimate narrators of career identities. She urges us to reimagine career development as border practices that allow individuals of diverse backgrounds to continuously appear in the presence of plural others. This alternative social imagination asks us to treat differences not as deficiency but as points of interested dialogue and debates that demand reflexivity, creativity and connectivity. To illustrate what it means to engage career development as border practice, she provides examples based on her research with immigrant professionals, and with employment-related training, and services for immigrants in Canada.
600+
Professional Attendees
30+
Presenters & Industry Leaders
25+
Informative
Workshops
15+
Exhibition​Booths
WELCOME KEYNOTE
JIM BRIGHT
CDC 2018 Sponsors and Exhibitors
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CDC 2017 had over 20 great sponsors that contributed in creating a successful event and develop meaningful relations. Don't miss out on reinforcing your brand roots, make new connections and assure legacy.
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CONFERENCE LOCATION
​BC Career Development Association
728 - 510 West Hastings
Vancouver, BC V6B 1L8
