CDAS Learns: Ageism and Career Management
Event Information
About this event
The sharing aims to increase the participants’ level of awareness pertaining to ageism and career management in the Asia Pacific region with a global perspective. Furthermore, participants will be exposed to some career theories/framework and their application to retirement decisions.
Participants shall have,
- Gained knowledge in ageism and career management of older adults.
- Appreciated their role in assisting retirees with career management.
- Insights into concerns that older clients face in their working lives and during retirement planning.
About the Panelists:
CARLA SISON SIOJO, MA
Carla is Ex-Officio President of the Asia Pacific Career Development Association, an international organization that gathers career development professionals who work in or are interested in the Asia Pacific region. She is the Vice President of the Association of Placement Practitioners of Colleges and Universities, an organization in the Philippines that promotes good job placement practices. She worked as Director of the Office of Placement and Career Services in the Ateneo de Manila University for 8 years.
Carla is also a parenting and relationship consultant, a coach and a counselor. She is happily married to Manolet for 38 years, has 4 grown up children, and 5 grandchildren. Given her numerous involvements, her family has top priority in her life.
ANTHONY MOK
Anthony developed his HR & Talent Management experience through numerous overseas stints and exposure to diverse industries, in both MNC and SME set-ups. With a background in Life Sciences, Project Management and Training, he also holds local ACTA and IHRP-CP professional certifications.
His recent transition to the education sector was fuelled by his interest in coaching, leadership development, facilitation and working with young adults.
A father to two active teenage boys, any free time he has is spent outdoors for walks or indoors for sessions over a board game or two.
Session Timeline:
- 9.00am - 9.30am: Registration & Networking
- 9.30am - 11.00am: Sharing by Carla Sison Siojo
- 11.00am - 11.30am: Panel Discussion with Carla Sison, Timothy Hsi & Anthony Mok
- 11.30am - 12.00pm: Networking and Closing
Organiser Career Development Association of Singapore (CDAS)
Organiser of CDAS Learns: Ageism and Career Management
The Career Development Association of Singapore (CDAS) aims to:
- To promote the professional development and status of career development practitioners in Singapore.
- To serve as a common platform for all career development practitioners to foster professionalism and professional education and increase professional identity of practitioners.
- To be the voice of career practitioners in Singapore and to represent the interests of practitioners from any setting.
- To provide a body of research knowledge with regards to career development.
- To become the representative association for career practitioners in Singapore.
- To be affiliated to international organisations in career development.
It does so by organising events and creating opportunities for career practitioners to come together and learn from each other, growing the field as well as creating a drive for career development for the future.
