How To Market Yourself To A New Industry
With intimate knowledge of the new industry, you can translate your skills, expertise and experience to what the prospective employer from that industry is looking for...
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Three signs that you should be considering a career change
Self-Determination Theory (SDT) represents a broad framework for a person’s experience of autonomy, competence and relatedness. Autonomy, in the context of SDT, refers to the control one has over one’s...
Are you having second thoughts about your career choice?
Canadians are having second thoughts about their career choices, CERIC's recent Survey of Career Professionals indicates. CERIC Board Chair John Horn explains how basing career decisions soley on financial considerations...
Helping People Over 40 to Rethink their Careers
This exercise can help clients imagine three possible different futures and really play out how their life might look after several years of living each of them....
Back to Work: The Resumé Advice You Need to Know
You might be concerned about what recruiters will think of the gaps in your resumé or feel stressed about how you should explain the gap in your career history. But...
Follow these 5 tips if you want to make a career pivot
Whether through an email, phone call, or handwritten letter (you don’t hear about those much anymore), find out who the hiring manager is and then reach out. They’re not being...
Navigating a New Job with a Very Different Culture
Before making big changes, it’s important to meet both individually and as a group with your new colleagues and employees to suss out potential pitfalls, uncover new options, or identify...
Want to work at a startup? 4 tips for shifting jobs mid-career
Startups care less about what you did and more about what you can do. So, go out there and do it....
How Many Canadians Are Planning to Switch Jobs – and Why?
Research from Indeed explores why Canadian workers are looking for new jobs, what their career plans are and what it would take to make them stay....
Where Do I Start: Career Decision Making
A career that suits you will ideally play on your strengths, be something you are passionate about, and pay you well enough to take care of yourself....