Career support services
Last updated: September 7, 2021
Career support services offer confidential professional advice to help you with career-related planning and decision-making, effective coping skills, and managing career transitions, including retirement.
These services are free, voluntary and available to everyone, including:
- Auxiliary employees
- Employees receiving a Short Term Illness and Injury Plan (STIIP) or long-term disability (LTD) benefits
- Family members who normally live with an employee
Learn more about support for developing your career.
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Career advice services
- Work one on one by telephone with a professional career counsellor
- Identify your career direction and goals
- Assess your interests and skill sets
- Learn strategies to enhance work satisfaction and manage work-life issues
Work-life resiliency coaching
- Work one on one by telephone with a professional resiliency coach
- Evaluate satisfaction levels in work and life, and create strategies to enhance needed areas
- Better understand your reactions to life’s stressors and build new coping strategies
- Create and work through an action-oriented plan, based on identified goals
Retirement planning
- Work one on one by telephone with a retirement planning professional
- Assess your needs and explore options to proactively plan for retirement
- Explore retirement-related issues, including:
- financial concerns
- successful transition from work to retirement
- Create a personal plan based on identified retirement priorities