All those Career Day talks you’ve heard have been fun and all, but everyone gets it—study hard and get good grades. But in order to someday have a cool occupation like one of those speakers, and maybe speak at a future Career Day, you need to do more than what they’re telling you. Employment experts…
A good MBA grad school in Canada is hard to find, and this is why you should know what to look for in a university. This article will explain what you should seek in a university that you might want to attend, as well as what the best university in Canada may be. What To…
Preparing for a career requires setting goals and working toward them with everything you do. The old adage “find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” can be misleading in the modern world of work. Today, career planning is complicated by a mercurial economy and the high cost of…
A master’s degree course enables you to further your academic studies in your chosen field but it can involve a significant commitment in time and money. It is understandable that any prospective postgraduate would want to be sure that this path will benefit them in the long term before choosing this option. Here are just…
The rules of the job-hunt change from year to year. That’s why to stand out in today’s competitive hiring climate, you have to network, talk to job placement agents and improve your skills by taking classes. No matter your age or your industry, you need to know the right tricks and tips to make a…
What do Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Jefferson have in common? They all used height adjustable desks that allowed them to work while standing. You may not be the leader of a powerful country or the author of fifteen novels, but you can increase your own productivity and comfort by using this old trick…
There are more of us looking for work now than there ever has been but the sad fact of the matter is that there are fewer jobs to go around. As such, interview opportunities will be nowhere near as plentiful as they were 10 or even 5 years ago so instead of simply writing off…
More than 74 thousand new jobs were filled in December 2013, reports the Bureau of Labor Statistics. For each one of those people, their first day on the job has to be a good one. First impressions are hard to reverse so you need to prepare yourself to impress your boss and co-workers. These suggestions…
Many people find themselves working at a job for reasons that they can’t really explain. Often, an opportunity presents itself and before they realize it, they are headed in a direction they had never planned on. I consider myself very lucky to have known from an early age what I wanted to do. Plants and…
Detectives are undeniably intriguing, and many of us secretly wish that we could be on the front lines of a criminal investigation. Questioning suspects. Putting the pieces together. Catching criminals in their lies. These are all aspects of detective work that draw us in and leave us wanting more. Why do you think crime shows…
With the Internet and cloud technology advancing at an alarmingly fast rate, the number of companies taking their business online has never been so high, and this new way of working has become something of a phenomenon. In fact, a large percentage of upstarts don’t even consider the traditional business model, opting for the freelance,…
Most of us will have some sort of idea in terms of our career and the job that we want to do to see us through until retirement. Yet, often this job won’t be found on our doorsteps. It would be ideal to stay in the area where you have grown up and be close…