CCRW News
CCRW Senior Learning Coordinator Linda Brown was recently featured on Accessible Media Inc.’s Reflections podcast in the episode “Reflecting on Transition: Changing Careers.”
The episode explores the experiences of professionals with disabilities navigating career change, including transferable skills, training, disclosure and new professional opportunities.
Featured podcast
Listen: Reflecting on Transition — Changing Careers
Hear Linda Brown share her perspective on the skills and training that can support career transitions, and how people can identify and build transferable skills within their current roles. Linda’s interview begins at approximately the 15-minute mark.
Podcast details
- Podcast
- Reflections
- Episode
- Reflecting on Transition: Changing Careers
- Published
- Length
- 28 minutes
- Featuring
- Linda Brown, Senior Learning Coordinator, CCRW
- Contributor
- Joeita Gupta
- Produced by
- Accessible Media Inc. (AMI)
About the episode
Career change can mean entering unfamiliar territory, identifying new opportunities and recognizing how the skills developed in one role can carry into another.
In Reflecting on Transition: Changing Careers, Joeita Gupta speaks with professionals with disabilities about their experiences transitioning into new careers and the factors that can shape those decisions.
The conversation explores career transition from several perspectives, including changing industries, disability disclosure with a new employer, entrepreneurship, professional development and the value of transferable skills.
Linda Brown on skills for career transition
Linda Brown
Senior Learning Coordinator, CCRW
Linda Brown is the Senior Learning Coordinator at the Canadian Council on Rehabilitation and Work (CCRW), where she creates and coordinates learning and training resources that support job seekers with disabilities.
During the episode, Linda discusses the skills and training that can be particularly valuable for people considering a career change. She also highlights how workers can identify transferable skills they are already developing in their current jobs and apply those strengths to new opportunities.
About Reflections
Reflections listens in on how we make sense of the world through conversation and the lens of lived experience, weaving questions with stories from the disability community.
Hosted by Ramya Amuthan, Reflections features contributions from Kelly MacDonald, Grant Hardy, Joeita Gupta, Beth Deer and Nisreen Abdel-Majid.
Reflections airs Tuesday through Friday at 1 p.m. Eastern on AMI-audio and is also available as an audio podcast.
About Accessible Media Inc.
Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) is a Canadian media company that entertains, informs and empowers Canadians with disabilities through accessible programming and authentic storytelling.
