by marie | Dec 14, 2015 | Blog, Build your career, Canadian Workplace Culture, Reaching Your Career Goals
People with experience on their resumes tend to receive more interview requests, and experience is certainly good for personal brand and increasing perceptions of competence. Surprisingly, however, a meta-analysis [1] about the effects of work experience on job...
by marie | Jun 22, 2015 | Blog, Canadian Workplace Culture, Intercultural Communication, Reaching Your Career Goals, Build your career
Yes, you do need to network! In some countries people are introduced or placed by friends and family into jobs or brought into a business. In other countries, graduates find their first jobs because they are automatically placed by an educational institution,...
by marie | Jun 13, 2015 | Blog, Build your career, Hot Off The Press, Canadian Workplace Culture, Intercultural Communication, Reaching Your Career Goals
You’ve researched the company, met up with employees who work there, prepped your answers so you can answer the key questions you know the interviewers are going to ask, put on your “power suit,” and done everything you can to be ready to deliver the...
by marie | Jan 26, 2015 | Blog, Leadership and Management, Supervisory Smarts, Canadian Workplace Culture, Intercultural Communication, Employer Best Practices, Build your career
It is pretty easy to tell other people what they should do, how they should fix a work issue and how to fix their personality foibles. We can quickly see when someone else is so much in favour of a person or a project they can’t see the forest for the trees. We can...