The Carism® tools
A formula for a successful career
CARISM® is a unique career development tool specially conceived to increase performance in student services (in orientation, career choice and placement) by promoting academic and professional success.
Inspired by the most recent scientific research on the functioning of the brain and on its capacity to learn and integrate new material, CARISM® presents a unique framework for career planning and development by targeting six key-objectives essential to student success:
| C | Choose a career that is truly suitable |
| A | Acquire the competencies to compete and perform |
| R | Research, with flair, field work and job opportunities |
| I | Integrate the work world successfully |
| S | Satisfy professional aspirations throughout their life span |
| M | Maintain their competencies updated to remain competitive |
The Job Market Constellations Map© (map of the career and employment world) and the volume entitled A Practical Guide to Manage Your Career by Objectives© are tools enabling counselors, teachers, as well as community partners to better coordinate their efforts so students are equipped to:
- Become the central actors in their socio-professional success
- Make use of a common platform to dialogue, explore, validate, manage, concretize and succeed in their socio-professional project
Recent research in a particular college revealed that using CARISM® made a notable difference among students in four specific ways:
- it challenged them to clarify and establish their career objectives
- it provided them with a clearer vision of their trajectory once their studies were completed
- it offered an incentive to complete their studies
- it was an inspiration towards realizing the importance of what they could contribute to their community through the career they would undertake
We offer training in your school or through an Internet program (Webinar) in order to ensure that counselors and teachers acquire the specific competencies to make use of our CARISM® tools with your students.
Here are some of our partners:
- Fleming College (Peterborough, Ontario)
- Portage College (Lac La Biche, Alberta)
- Parkland College (Yorkton, Saskatchewan)
- Butler County Community College (Butler, Pennsylvania)
- Community College of Beaver County (Beaver, Pennsylvania)
- Garden City Community College (Garden City, Kansas)
- State University of New York at Plattsburgh (Plattsburgh, NY)
- Hamilton College (Clinton, NY)
- Southeast Regional College (Weyburn, SK)
- Sullivan County Community College (Loch Sheldrake, NY)
- Collège Acadie Î.-P.-É. (Wellington, PEI)
- Yukon College (Whitehorse, Yukon)
- The Heinz Endowments (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
- Mon Valley Education Consortium (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
- Toujours Ensemble (Montreal, Quebec)
- Conseil des écoles catholiques de langue française (Ottawa, Ontario)
- New Brunswick Community College (Campbellton, N.B.)
- Northern College (Timmins, Ontario)
- YMCA of Greater Toronto (Toronto, Ontario)
- Westmoreland County Community College (Youngwood, Pennsylvania)
- Essex County College (Newark, New Jersey)
To find out more about how you can help you accomplish your social mission with your students, here's how to get in touch with us.
