Bryan Hiebert is a Professor Emeritus of Education, University of Calgary, and Adjunct Professor in Educational Psychology and Leadership Studies at the University of Victoria. He is a member of the Canadian Working Group on Evidence-Based Practice in Career Development and part of the co-ordinating team for Prove It Works, an international initiative aimed at demonstrating the value of career development programs and services.   Kris Magnusson is a Professor of Counselling Psychology and Dean of the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. He is also a founding member of the Canadian Research Working Group on Evidence-Based Practice in Career Development, dedicated to improving the evidence base for the impact that career services have at individual, community, social and economic levels.     Their chapter in the Career Development Practice in Canada textbook looks at how practitioners and the career development field as a whole can show that what they do makes a difference. Topics covered in the podcast include: Is vulnerability to funding cuts the biggest motivator for departments and agencies to adopt an evidence-based approach? Why 90% of managers and practitioners in career development say that evaluation is important but only 35% actually evaluate the impact of their work How it is “neither professional nor ethical to do things with a client with no evidence to support it” Moving beyond asking if a client found a session useful or tracking changes in employment status, to an approach where evaluation is infused into day-to-day practice How the best way to evaluate the effectiveness of career development interventions is to focus on client change What makes a “professional practitioner” Easy-to-use evaluation tools for practitioners such as the “Post-Pre Assessment” 7 stages of integrating evaluation into practice Overcoming the common barriers of integrating evaluation into practice (hint: don’t try to do too much) How practitioners can best harness the power of evidence to make the case to funders and policymakers that career development