E34: Using your campus career center in your final year of study can reduce stress, overwhelm, and increase your confidence. Here are 10 ways. (8:30 min listen, 4 min read) The more you know The biggest advantage you can give yourself when job seeking is the Knowledge Advantage. Understanding expectations. With that...

E33: Visit your career centre! 2:24 listen, 1:00 read Your career centre has a host of services to help you land your first job. I was surprised to hear that only half the final year class (54%) use their careers centre on campus That number is 54% for Canadian Universities and 41% for...

E32: Think outside the box. 2:34 min listen, 3 min read. First figure out the box In the previous episode, we talked about the value of critical thinking as an EQ skill, and the fact that there is a 4-step method that assists in nurturing it. In his HBR article ‘A Short Guide...

E31:  4:17 min listen, 3 min read Why employers are searching for Critical Thinking This is a conversation about critical thinking, one of the special EQ (emotional quotient) skills. Boost your employability 'This soft skill will boost your employability' was the clickbait title of a WEF article. So, naturally, I clicked. And that skill? Critical...

E30:  6:11 min listen, 3 min read Sully Do you remember when Captain Sully landed US1549 in the Hudson? I recall watching footage of the passengers, each with their bright yellow lifejackets, gingerly walking out on the wings of the plane as it hovered on the surface of a cold river in...

The podcast episode 'New beginnings' here: A stream of 'New's I woke up this morning to a stream of ‘new’s: Canada had announced its new government – a minority government for the Liberals which means they are going to have to learn to negotiate with the other parties in order to deliver...

The podcast episode here: In this final episode on Malcolm Gladwell’s book Talking to Strangers, I circle back to the first episode where we discussed his podcast Revisionist History. Once I got home and started reading the paper version of the book ‘Talking to Strangers – What we should know about the...