About
About the Author, Cathy Keates
The official author blurb...
Cathy Keates, MA (Counselling Psychology) has coached students, new graduates, and job seekers of all ages to strategically create careers they will love. She is the former Associate Director of the career centre at Canada’s third largest university, where she led the creation of new career support services and web tools. She is a past executive of the Canadian Career Information Association and currently sits on the board of Contact Point, a national website for career practitioners.
As the director of Career Considerations, she provides innovative solutions to empower job seekers - and the career professionals who support them – to create careers of hope, possibility, and success.
Cathy has just published her first book, Not for Sale! Why we need a new job search mindset.
The unofficial author story...
I can’t get enough of new ideas. I’m very bad at just accepting things the way they are. First, it seems to me that some things that we most take for granted are the things that most need to be questioned. Second, I’m always sure we can do better.
I love the work I do. Whether it is speaking to large crowds, meeting with small groups of interested (and interesting) people working towards improving career services, supporting individuals who are wondering how to best move forward with their own career ideas, or sitting alone and really thinking hard about things and proposing and creating new ideas and strategies, I love it all.
I approach my own work with the same focus on integrity (including ethics, dignity, and authenticity) that I write about in my new book. My own personal anchors keep me focused on being the best I can be, and helping others to do the same.
Life isn’t all work (!); I also try to spend lots of time with family, some time knitting and scrapbooking (though I am not very good at either), plenty of time outside, and always trying not to take myself too seriously.
About Career Considerations
Our mission is to help people strategically create careers of hope, possibility, and success. We work directly with people who want to learn new and more effective career strategies and we help career and employment counsellors improve their abilities to help their clients. We do this by providing innovative information resources and speaking and consulting services.
