Internationally, we now have 17 different countries working on a solution to this. Career development as a specialized field was drawn into the limelight in the final decade of the 20th Century, as economies everywhere gyrated and changed and the need for career assistance grew exponentially. In today's post-industrial, global world of work, myriad challenges face employers, workers, policy makers, and career practitioners alike. Knowledge has become a commodity. And learning is the antidote for change.
Large organizations continue to de-layer, restructure and downsize.
On the job, there's team work, project work and acute levels of stress. Most job markets are mired in paradox with shortages of skilled workers and high levels of unemployment among the unskilled or improperly skilled. Watts, a leader in the international career development field, applauded Canada for bringing together different countries to discuss issues of this kind.