Indigenous Career Education

Indigenous Career Education offers opportunity to provide meaningful, culturally responsive, and inclusive programming to help address the systemic inequities in degree completion and employment outcomes historically faced by Indigenous students.

The University of Saskatchewan (USask) Career Services offers two programs that support Indigenous students’ career success through a focus on four key elements: community building, Traditional & Land-based teachings, supporting pathways to employment, and addressing Calls to Action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. These four elements follow the Medicine Wheel and its four quadrants to represent a wholistic view of well-being in Indigenous principles.

In this session, the presenters will speak to how each of these four key elements play such a pivotal role in ensuring Indigenous students have the opportunity to come together in community as they identify, develop, and articulate their employment-related skills.

At the end of this session, attendees will:

• Understand why Indigenous Career Education is important
• Be able to articulate the key elements to consider when developing Indigenous students’ Career Education programming
• Be able to identify different strategies to ensure programming is culturally sensitive and responsive
• Understand local context when preparing to develop Indigenous Career Education