An award for the quintessential college, career, and job sites.
Quintessential Careers honors one career or job site each issue of
QuintZine
with the Quintessential Careers Site Award in recognition of quintessential efforts in helping job-seekers.
Contact Point is a Canadian not-for-profit Web site dedicated to providing an interactive vehicle
and professional resource to the career-practitioner community.
Contact Point's features include:
Quarterly newsletter (Contact Point Bulletin) and monthly e-circular (Flash)
Free online access to the Canadian Journal of Career Development. Sample articles include:
Employees' Perceptions of Repatriation
Mentoring and the World of Work: A Reference Model
Using Portfolios to Direct Workplace Learning
Career Decision-Making Difficulties of First-Year University Students
The Learning section allows the user to customize the search vehicle by sorts, such as by region, categories,
and dates.
Networking live chats hosted by Contact Point related to specific users or followup chats about articles in the
Bulletin, hosted online by the authors.
Job Bank, a searchable listing of current jobs available in the field. Talent Bank contains a list
of candidates who have posted a summary of their work experience and skillsets.
Links to related professional associations and resource Web sites, listings of vocational assessment resources,
and global professional development opportunities
A new feature is "My Contact Point," a unique tool that allows the practitioner to customize one's own homepage, contribute
content to the site; it makes available the Talent Bank, personal Career Portfolio, bookmarks, personal notes, and subscriptions.
