On this episode we listen to Hoda’s career info. Winner of provincial and national awards in career development, Dr Dave Redekopp is the president of Life-Role Development Group Limited. He has devoted over thirty years to the development of better career development and workplace concepts and practices. His work has addressed a wide arrange of issues in both [...]
Lots of people wonder if starting a business is a good fit for them; should you get a job – or should you do you own thing, be your own boss, and succeed - or fail - on your own terms. Successful entrepreneurs seem to have that special mix of 3 things: 1) viable business [...]
On this episode we listen to Hoda’s career info. Dr. Jim Bright is an Organizational Psychologist, Professorial Fellow in Career Education and Development at Australian Catholic University and Visiting Professor of Career Development at the University of Derby, UK. He skillfully combines authority, intellect, humour and entertainment to convey important messages about change and creativity [...]
This show is a little different. We focus on career literacy on Hoda’s career info channel. Dr Hoda Kilani’s project is Raising Career Literacy Awareness One Interview At A Time. Hoda’s a Certified Professional Career Coach and President and Founder of Right Career Fit. Hoda’s Career Info focuses on interviewing experts in the Career Development field [...]
After a few years working in technical sales, Steve Petryschuk needed help reevaluating his career and deciding on next steps. So he hired a career counsellor and found it was practical, helpful and an investment in his future. He decided to leave his job and join a fast growing startup called Auvik where he’s progressed through roles as a [...]
Do you love being outside and being among the trees? Working with your hands? Seeing tangible results? Then consider working as an arborist. In the second part of today’s show we chat with arborist Cindy Myall while she’s on a job taking down a black mulberry tree. But first... Roads, highways, bridges, parking lots. What does [...]
Why are career stories valuable to hear? Career Buzz listener & U of Toronto grad student, Govind Nanda, says the stories inspire him and help make well-informed career choices. Tune into Career Buzz on Nov. 17, 11-noon ET to hear 3 powerful moments from recent shows and Govind Nanda's reactions. Host Stephen Armstrong shares insights from Canadian Mining Hall of [...]
4 years ago Andrew Wang left an engineering and business career to care for his school age children and pursue his lifelong dream of becoming an artist. He’s influenced by the Renaissance period where artists were engineers - and engineers were artists. Andrew studied mechanical engineering first at the University of Waterloo then as a graduate student at MIT. As a [...]
How can students -- and employers -- benefit from "virtual internships"? Tom Brunskill is co-founder and CEO at Forage. They partner with leading companies to create virtual experience programs for students to build skills, gain experience and better understand different career paths. Also, after 16 years in the tech industry including a CTO role, Michal Juhas developed [...]
While Mikhail Burke was working on his undergrad, then PhD in biomedical engineering he got involved. He led the U of T chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers, and he established ENGage; a STEM/Leadership camp targeting African-Canadian youth. So when he graduated, in addition to teaching engineering courses at U of T, he got more involved [...]
