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...

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...

He had me at ‘spy stories’. The podcast episode here: When Heather Reisman asked Malcolm Gladwell what compelled him to write the book 'Talking to Strangers – What we should know about the people we don’t know', he said he loves a good spy story. So he started asking himself the question...

Teen brain All the confusion I was facing as my seemingly logical 12-year old dissolved into an absolutely incoherent teen became clearer once I heard Dr. Jean Clinton explain how the teen brain develops. Her explanations were even more meaningful because as she was researching, she was also parenting her own family. As...

What are career counsellors concerned about when working with their clients, and the Future of Work? List of some Future-ready concerns: That the future is already our presentThat there is a skill mis-matchThat there is a current and growing skill shortageThat our expectations clearly do not match the reality availableThat business would...