Photo Contest

PICTURE THIS:
Your photos in the glossy pages of Career Options, Canada’s premier publication on youth and careers!

Students in college or university: we want YOU in our magazine! Or more specifically, photographs taken by YOU, to run in Career Options. Your high-quality images will accompany articles about job search skills, career paths, graduate school applications, nailing that interview and much more!

Your photos might be of anything: a person in a job or career that interests you, an object that represents a field of work, campus life at your institution… the only limit is your creativity. You don’t have to be a professional photographer—all we ask is that you do your best to create eye-catching, original images that are suitable to print in the magazine. Check out back issues of Career Options for examples of images we’ve used in the past.

If one or more of your photos are selected for publication, your byline will appear alongside each one, and you’ll also receive credit as a Contributing Photographer in the Career Options masthead. Just imagine: it’s your work in national circulation!

DEADLINE: AUGUST 4, 2025

If you would like more information, send an e-mail to: [email protected]

Terms and Conditions

Your photos cannot be accepted into the competition without your agreement to all terms.

Career Options Photo Competition Release Agreement

I hereby irrevocably grant to the Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers, and all of its officers, employees, successors and assigns (hereinafter “CACEE”), all legal rights to any and all photographic images I submit to CACEE for any reason. Any and all images submitted shall be considered the property of CACEE.

These rights include, but are not limited to, licensing these images to organizations of any kind or individuals, for any use whatsoever. CACEE’s unrestricted right of use also includes, but is not limited to, allowing these images to be used in any type of print publication and/or in any type of electronic format, or in any other manner or media at any time throughout the world in perpetuity.

By submitting my images, I give CACEE permission to edit, reproduce, use, distribute and otherwise exhibit the images submitted (or any portion thereof) without payment to me or to any third party. I hereby release CACEE from any and all claims, demands, liabilities, costs and expenses which I now have or may hereafter have by reason of any use thereof.

Eligibility: Must be a student or recent graduate (within 2 years) from a Canadian post-secondary institution. The following information is required with photo submission:

  • Student/Graduate name
  • E-mail address
  • Name of institution
  • Program
  • Year
  • Name of one of your professors/instructors
  • Number of images (maximum of 3 per submission)

Guidelines

  • Images taken with either a digital or a film camera will be accepted. Submissions must be RGB or Grayscale JPGs no larger than
  • 800 pixels along the longest edge and a maximum file size of 1Mb each.
  • Entrants may set their own DPI and image size but should bear in mind that the judges will view all images on a computer screen.
  • If your image is selected you will be notified and asked to upload a high-resolution 300 dpi file.

Evaluation criteria: A judging panel made up of staff from gordongroup marketing + communications and the Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers will review all entries and select photos to run in Career Options based on the following criteria:

  • Relevance to the theme of careers
  • Technical execution
  • Originality of the image

Refrain from submitting any photos that could be seen as offensive. Vulgar, racially insensitive or other objectionable content will not be considered for the magazine.

I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.

Career Options is published by the Canadian Association of Career Educators and Employers (CACEE) www.cacee.com.

CACEE is a national, not-for-profit organization that has worked to provide information, advice, professional development opportunities, and services to employers, career services professionals, & students for over 55 years.