Invitation for Concurrent Presentation and Workshop Abstracts

Nau Mai, Haere Mai! CDANZ extends a warm welcome to our extended career development whānau / family from throughout Aotearoa, Australia and beyond.
 
The Career Development Association of New Zealand (CDANZ) is excited to hold the 2023 International CDANZ Conference from Wednesday 11 October to Friday 13 October 2023 at the magnificent Viaduct Events Centre, overlooking the beautiful Waitematā Harbour in Tāmaki Makaurau / Auckland, New Zealand. This is our first bi-annual conference working together with our Australian partners, the Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA).  
 
We are proud to be hosting the first kanohi ki te kanohi / face to face international conference in New Zealand, a conference that is for practitioners, and by practitioners, with valuable input from other professionals, experts and researchers.
 
After years of navigating the uncertainty, isolation, and unprecedented challenges of a pandemic that has tipped our whānau/family, communities and the world on its axis, the 2023 conference is focused on bringing us back together through: 
 
Tūhononga | Connection  
Connecting career development professionals and our sector, sharing our stories and creating strong relationships. 

Mahi Tahi | Collaboration  
Collaborating with other practitioners and industry peers to share ideas, tools to take away, learning about current research, industry knowledge and collaborating as an industry body to support the future of the career development industry. 

Hapori | Community 
Strengthen and support each other to provide improved services and practice for those we help on their career development journey. 
 
This Call for Abstracts is for both Concurrent Presentations (45 mins) and Workshops (90 mins) 

Presentation Categories and Criteria 

All presentations must clearly relate to at least one of the CDANZ Four Pou / Pillars in our mission.  

All presentations must also relate to one or more of our five conference strands:

All presentation submissions must clearly identify how the presentation relates to specific categories of practitioners. All submissions should identify how presentations will benefit the widest possible audience and how work can be applied outside any immediate field.  
 

Please see further information below, and start the application process if you are ready. Some notes:

1. Feel free to review this information and come back to the application when you are ready

2. If you are part way through the application and need to take a break, the form will save your progress for you to come back to it

3. Questions? Please contact deb@hpce.co.nz or daniela@hpce.co.nz or contact +64 27 606 1810

To assist with submission, our CDAA partners have created three excellent guidlines for writing abstracts. These are working links, please click the link you would like to open:

How to write an abstract for a conference presentation
Writing a structured abstract
Is your presentation going to educate and engage? 
 
All Abstracts will be blind reviewed and evaluated by the CDANZ Executive to determine suitability for the Conference. Presenters may be asked to make amendments to their abstracts and proposed presentations as suggested by the reviewers.

Thank you for your submission, we will be in touch with questions or comments. A final decision will be made by the 17th July 2023.

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