Faculty and staff

Dr. Candy Ho is an international award-winning career development educator and scholar whose expertise is recognized globally through keynotes, consulting, and other engagements. She has been featured in BNN Blomberg, The Globe and Mail, Financial Post, Canadian Business, and CTV News.  She is the inaugural Assistant Professor, Integrative Career and Capstone Learning at the University of the Fraser Valley. In this unique capacity, she teaches courses that help students consider their educational and life experiences and how these experiences can enable them to achieve their aspirations, ultimately helping them design the life they want to live. She also holds teaching positions in Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Educational Studies Department and in Douglas College's Career Development Practitioner Program.

Prior to becoming a faculty member, Candy has also worked extensively in university student affairs in areas such as first-year experience and student transition, campus and residence life, career and volunteer services, co-operative education, academic advising, and university advancement. Her collective professional experiences to date have culminated in her doctoral dissertation investigating the conceptions of post-secondary career influencers in student career success, and she readily shares her expertise around the world. Finally, she currently serves as Chair of CERIC, a Canadian charitable organization that advances education and research in career counselling and career development, in order to increase the economic and social well-being of Canadians.

• EdD, Educational Leadership in Post-Secondary Contexts, Simon Fraser University (SFU) 
• MEd, Educational Leadership, Student Affairs and Services, Simon Fraser University (SFU)               
• Associate Certificate (Honours), Leadership Studies, British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
• Bachelor, Arts and Social Sciences (Co-operative Education), Simon Fraser University (SFU) 

• Board Chair, CERIC (Canadian National Career Development Association), Present
• Member, Canadian Career Development Institute Advisory Committee, 2022-Present
• Member, United Nations International Day of Careers and Livelihood Advocacy Committee, 2021-Present
• Member, National Career Guidance Stakeholder Committee, Labour Market Information Council, 2021-Present
• Member, Global Connections Committee, National Career Development Association, 2021-Present
• Member, Asia-Pacific Career Development Association Western N. American Region Committee, 2020-Present

• Career Development, Career Education, and Work-Integrated Learning
• Teaching and Learning, Instructional and Facilitation Skills, and Adult Education
• Student Success, and Student Transition to and from Post-Secondary Education
• Student Services and Student Affairs, Post-Secondary Educational Professionals, and Career Influencers
• United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as an Educational and Career Development Framework

Courses Taught

• ARTS 299
• PORT 398
• PORT 399

Keynote presentations:

Ho, C. (2022, October 20). Relationship-focused networking, one conversation at a time [Keynote presentation]. Virtual Pacific Career Fair, Online.

Ho, C. (2022, September 22). Anything but ‘soft’: The value of transferable skills in action [Keynote presentation]. Alexander College Faculty Professional Development Day, Burnaby, BC.

Ho, C. (2022, May 13). How career development will save the world [Keynote presentation]. Career Development Association of Australia Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Ho, C. (2022, May 4). Making the personal global: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in work integrated learning and career curricula [Keynote presentation]. Association of Co-operative Education and Work Integrated Learning BC-Yukon Professional Development Day, Online.

Invited presentations:

Grey, A., Ho, C., Rojas-Primus, C., & Ip, P. (2023, March 7). Engaging students in UN SDGs through open pedagogy [Expert panel]. SDG Week @ KPU, Online.

Hunter, K., Edgar, A., Garg, A., Warner, R., & Ho, C. (2023, March 7). Teaching the SDGs [Expert panel]. SDG Week Canada, Online.

Hopkins, S., Ho, C., & Maher, T. (2023, January 25). Empowering career practitioners to guide a new future [Expert panel]. Future Skills @ Cannexus, Ottawa, ON.

Ho, C. (2023, January 11). Career work in action: Guiding Principles of Career Development for post-secondary students [Invited workshop]. International Network of Employers and University Careers Services, Online.

Ho, C. (2022, November 23 & 24). Connecting career and academic goals with your life constellation [Invited workshop]. SFU Faculty of Applied Sciences TechConnect Program, Burnaby, BC.

Ho, C. (2022, November 9). Sustaining career development with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals [Invited masterclass]. Careers and Transition Education Association New Zealand, Online.

Ávalos, V., Ho, C., Loeser, J. I., & González, N. (2022, November 9). Sustainable Development Goals in the curriculum. International Symposium 2030 SDG Agenda: Technical and Vocational Education and Training and Its Contribution to Sustainable Development, Online.

Ho, C. (2022, November 5). Ignite your future: Leveraging the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals [Invited presentation]. Fanshawe College Student Leadership Conference, London, ON.

Ho, C. (2022, June 1). Sustaining career development with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals [Invited webinar presentation]. Asia Pacific Career Development Association Professional Development Series, Online.

Ibrahim, R., & Ho, C. (2022, May 24). Guiding Principles in changing times: A focus on the dynamic nature of career development [Invited masterclass]. Asia Pacific Career Development Association and International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance Joint Conference, Singapore.

Ho, C. (2022, May 14). Maximizing career intervention through career influencer [Invited masterclass]. Career Development Association of Australia Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Ho, C., Hirsch-Allen, J., Lang, T., Pickerell, D., & Surranna, S. (2022, May 12). Building the bridge to meet common needs: WHAT NEXT? [Invited presenter and moderator]. CERIC’s Webinar Series: Building a bridge: How employers and career development professionals can collaborate to address workforce needs in 2022, Online.

Ho, C., Bieler, A., Convery, B., Nord, L., & Stanford, J. (2022, May 10). Reality check and an emergent opportunity: WHAT NOW? [Invited presenter and moderator]. CERIC’s Webinar Series: Building a bridge: How employers and career development professionals can collaborate to address workforce needs in 2022, Online.

Ho, C. (2022, April 22). Teaching with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Earth Day edition [Invited presentation]. BCcampus Facilitating Learning Online Series, Online.

Ho, C. (2022, April 20). Sustaining career development with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals [Invited presentation]. Douglas College Career Development Practitioner Program’s Learning Series, Online.

Amery, B., Mullock, K., Baldwin, N., Ho, C., & Sandy, S. (2022, February 28). Inclusive career guidance for a changing labour market: Launching OECD’s findings on the state of career guidance in Canada [Expert panel]. Labour Market Information Series presented by CERIC and Labour Market Information Council, Online. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/Rr8dmqF3-g4

Ho, C. (2022, February 4). Applying an Sustainable Development Goals lens to your career goals and concerns [Invited presentation and expert panel]. United Nations Association of the National Capital Area – Graduate Fellows Program, Online.

Ho, C., Amundson, N., & Niles, S. (2022, January 21). Expert panel on career development [Invited panel moderator]. CERIC Graduate Student Engagement Program, Online.

Conference presentations:

Ho, C., Hopkins, S., & Bell, D. (2023, January 24). For us, with us: Evidence-based career development practices. Cannexus, Ottawa, ON.

Warner, R., Hunter, K., Pizzirani, S., & Ho, C. (2022, October 18). Achieving deep sustainability through hands-on learning [Conference presentation]. Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Online.

Michel, J. P., & Ho, C. (2022, June 28). Purpose-driven career development: How to engage the ‘hard-to-engage’ [Conference presentation]. National Career Development Association, Anaheim, CA.

Ho, C., & Grant, J. (2022, May 20). Evidence-based practice: Developing a career accelerator program for post-secondary graduate [Conference presentation]. Asia Pacific Career Development Association and International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance Joint Conference, Singapore.

Luke, J., Ho, C. (2022, May 13). Enhancing local career services with a global perspective [Conference presentation]. Career Development Association of Australia Conference, Sydney, Australia.

Ho, C., & Grant, J. (2022, April 21). Supporting new grads through a post-pandemic career transition [Conference presentation]. British Columbia Career Development Association Conference, Online.

Ho, C., Khinda, P., & Warick, R. (2022, January 26). Faculty members as work-integrated learning practitioners: Vancouver Community College case study [Conference presentation]. Cannexus, Online.

Ho, C. (in press). Making career development sustainable: A senior capstone course case study. Educating the Sustainability Leaders of the Future, Springer’s World Sustainability Series.

Ho, C. (2023). Fink’s taxonomy applied to work-integrated learning: An ‘audit’ of success strategies accounting students employ during recruitment. International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning.