By Sharon Graham. 2012 was a tough year for many employment consultants and career practitioners. We heard about government contract cutbacks and restructuring of services. Combine this with a stagnant economy and you’ve got a reason for rethinking your career prospects. If you are a career practitioner who is ready for a change, you can enhance your own career either by engaging within your organization or by exploring outside of it. Whether you are planning to stay or thinking about going, it is crucial that you build relationships within your organization. By […]

By Daisy Wright. I would like to share with you a part of an email from motivational speaker Jonathan Sprinkles in which he asks whether the people we associate with SUPPORT or STRETCH us.  Do they support us because they care how we feel or do they stretch us so we can question the self-imposed limitations that we have?  Great points to ponder! According to Jonathan: People who SUPPORT you care how you feel. People who STRETCH you care how you finish. People who SUPPORT you don’t want you to […]

If you are active on LinkedIn you may have started receiving endorsements from some of your connections. I have, and must say that when they started arriving in my Inbox I thought spam hackers had infiltrated the accounts of some of the people in my network and were sporadically sending out these messages. I became a bit more curious when I noticed endorsements were coming from some individuals with whom I had very little, if any, interactions.

By Sharon Graham. Sporting a moniker of Canada’s Career Strategist, you have to know that I take my responsibility seriously. So, I thrive on developing meaningful relationships with like-minded professionals — the kind of professionals who understand the value of sharing their expertise. These are the people I follow. Lately, I have been following my tweeps and monitoring them more closely. I have made a personal revelation, which I would like to share. It is clear that many followers, including myself, don’t appreciate threads that go on about someone’s daily activity. Around the […]

By Stephanie Clark. Actors have their favourite directors and vice versa. They recognize a compatibility between their styles, or personalities, which translates into an energetic synergy that seems to bridge the gap between screen and viewer. We viewers are then drawn into the story with such force that we watch the movie over and over to relive that “other world” experience. Amazing when that happens! In our subdued world of career management, finding colleagues of similar working style and commitment to quality is also important. We may not get the […]

Maclean’s Canadian university rankings have been the benchmark for Canadian university listings for 19 years. The top ranked universities in 2009 were: Simon Fraser University (BC) University of Victoria (BC) University of Waterloo (Ontario) University of Guelph (Ontario) Memorial University of Newfoundland University of New Brunswick Carleton University (Ontario) University of Windsor (Ontario) University of Regina (Saskatchewan) / York University (Ontario) – tie Concordia University (Quebec) There was very little difference from the previous year’s ranking, when Simon Fraser University and University of Victoria tied for first place, Memorial University […]