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It depends The answer to this question depends on where you are in your career journey, and what experiences you have had to date. If you are a career professional with successive experience in your professional field, the answer is clearly no. On the other hand if you have worked in an organization or in a role that has some relevance to the prospective employer, you can reference that in yo...
This short book is a must read. The author has skillfully packaged the work experiences of sitcom characters, primarily Ugly Betty, but also those of other characters on Grey’s Anatomy, The Office and others, into 25 entertaining career lesso
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As we are nearing the end of the school year, we are also nearing the start of the work season for most! An exciting time no doubt for students returning to companies and students new to the workforce about to start on a wonderful adventure. If you ...read it
First and foremost, it is important to know what your work-life balance values are as you seek employment, as this will help you choose employers/companies/associations/organizations that are in alignment with your own work-life balance preferenc ...read it
This book is probably one of the thinnest books in the Career Resource Centre, but don’t underestimate its value by the page number. If you want to find answers to any of the following question, I suggest you to take a look at the book and you wo ...read it
I’ve really enjoyed blogging about career-related events for the Faculty of Communication and Design (FCAD). Instead of doing a very formal “what I liked and disliked” ending piece, I’d like to share what I have learned as a first time bl ...read it
We have all experienced those dreaded feelings of rejection, confusion and disappointment when a relationship doesn’t work out. What about when your friends are going through a break up? How do you support them? When it comes to ap ...read it
So you applied everywhere for the summer, and you find yourself competing with high school students at this point for jobs you won't even like (it's actually still not too late by the way). Now what do you do? Well you can either take it easy and do ...read it
