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“Students these days…” This is a common lament of post-secondary career development practitioners as we try to figure out, how do we engage this generation of students? How do we...

Parents have surfaced as the most powerful and influential voice in the career journey for Generation Z, nudging peers and professors off the podium. This was evident in the findings...

We are all leaders in some capacity. Some people have very clearly defined leadership titles in their work (i.e. manager, director, VP, C-suite roles, etc.), while others’ titles don’t reflect...

My Cannexus20 experience was a pretty amazing series of firsts: It was my first Cannexus conference (even having spent 25+ years in the supported employment world) It was my first...

Sometime in my college recruiting days, I started dreaming about a side hustle where I could provide quality, objective information on post-secondary education and careers to students and their parents....

In my early 20s, I decided to pursue a career working in the church as a pastor. I enrolled in a Master of Theological Studies program, unaware of the ways...

It should have been a day like any other. But when George McKenzie, then 21, woke up, something didn’t feel right. “My tongue was all cottony and I actually wondered...

“I think I have been scammed!” Those are words no career centre wishes to hear from a student. A feeling of dread looms as you hear the details of how...

“And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” -attributed to Anaïs Nin "The only people who...

I worked with university students for over 20 years. Given that students spend thousands of dollars and many years on their education, it is shocking that many of them do...