PERSONNEL SELECTION OFFICE BUREAU DE SLECTION DU PERSONNEL

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PERSONNEL SELECTION OFFICEBUREAU DE SÉLECTION
DU PERSONNEL

• Personnel Development (PDev)
• Section du perfectionnement du personnel (Perf P)
• Capt Nathalie Duperé

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OUTLINE

• Our team
• Mission
• Services provided
• SCAN program
• Making the transition

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OUR TEAM / NOTRE ÉQUIPE Part 1

• Maj S. Bouchard SSO PDev/PSO
• Mme J. Charbonneau Admin Asst
• Capt N. Duperé - PSO
• Lt M. Hotte - PSO
• Lt L. Holloway - PSO
• Mr D. Pelletier Education Officer
• Vacant College Coord

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OUR TEAM / NOTRE ÉQUIPE Part 2

• PO2 A. Pilote - CC
• Cpl P. Perron Education Clk
• Cpl M. Fournier Education Clk
• Mrs D. Laplante Education Clk
• Mr R. Champoux Education Clk ILP

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Our Mission / Notre mission

• To enhance
• Organizational efficiency of units and
  formations and
• Psychological well-being of members by responding
  to developmental and adaptational needs
• Accroître
• Lefficacité organisationnelle des unités et
  formations et
• Le bien-être psychologique de ses membres en
  répondant à leurs besoins de développement et
  dadaptation

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Services Provided

• 1. Organizational efficiency
• Personnel Assessment interviews
• Consultation
• Canadian Forces Continuing Education Program
• Personnel research assistance

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Services Provided

• 2. Psychological well-being
• Academic counselling and orientation
• Second career assistance program (SCAN)
• Support to injured military personnel being
  released from the CF

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SCAN Program

• 1. Information
• SCAN seminars
• Individual interviews
• 2. Preparation
• Interest inventories
• Workshops
• Resume assistance
• Resource library
• VAC Job Placement Program

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Your Responsibilities

• Assess your current situation
• Needs, wants, current financial status
• Identify your objective
• Interests, abilities, experience
• Prepare yourself
• Training/upgrading
• Workshops

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STEP 3
STEP 2
STEP 1
Assess my financial situation
Prepare my second career
Gather Information on process, programs,
benefits
Workshops interviews
Objective identified?
No
Workshops interviews
Interest profile
Yes
PROCESS
SCAN
Budget
Workshops
No
Training required?
Financial planning
SCAN seminar
Job Placement Program

Yes
Training
External counselling
Follow up after release
Information
Intervention
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Making the TransitionPsychological Aspects of
Retirement

• Almost anything is easier to get into than out
  of.
• - Agnes Allen, American epigrammatist

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Transitions

• Transitions consist of
• An Ending
• A Neutral Zone
• A New Beginning
• Reference Managing Transitions, William
  Bridges, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1991.
• Transitions Making Sense of Lifes Changes, 2nd
  Edition, William Bridges, Da Capo Press, 2004.

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Endings
All changes, even the most longed-for, have
their melancholy, for what we leave behind is a
part of ourselves we must die to one life before
we can enter into another.    - Anatole France,
French writer
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Endings

• Identify and acknowledge the losses
• Expect and accept signs of grieving
• Anger, anxiety, sadness, disorientation,
  depression
• Define what is over, and what isnt
• Mark the ending
• Treat the past with respect

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The Neutral Zone
A nowhere between two somewheres

• A necessary phase of reorientation and
  redefinition
• Create temporary systems, structures
• Strengthen networks
• Use the neutral zone creatively
• Take stock
• Question the usual
• Look for new solutions and opportunities

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Establish a New Identity

• What do you do?
• Tell me about yourself!
• What is the first thing that comes to your mind?

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A New Beginning
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. - Tom
Stoppard, American dramatist
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A New Beginning

• Expect some ambivalence
• A new beginning confirms the ending
• A new beginning is always a gamble
• Postpone extra changes
• Foresee as much as you can
• Do worst-case scenarios
• Unload old baggage
• Embrace your new life!

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QUESTIONS ?
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Service Delivery / Point de Service
Personnel Development (PDev) / Perfectionnement
du personnel
Who? Qui?
Personnel Selection Officer
222 Queen Street Capital Square Bldg 6th Floor
Where? Où?
How? Comment?
Telephone [phone]
E-mail Charbonneau.MPJ_at_forces.gc.ca