How do you manage a forest fire? And how do you a get a job becoming a forest fire fighter? Later in today’s show we speak to an Ontario Wildland FireRanger Dean Rosen about his career story. But first, how do you get around the stereotypes of an engineer job? You know, the designer in front of [...]
When Tim Dunn completed his undergraduate in music, a friend suggested he apply for a job in IT. That first job led to a string of increasingly responsible positions from digital marketing to mobile marketing to customer experience to strategy, and from the UK to the US to Canada. Now as Scotiabank’s director of Digital [...]
In a Career Buzz episode from 2012, I interviewed the team of Reinekke Lengelle and Frans Meijers. They shared their model of writing as a transformative tool for career management. Reinekke and Frans were a professional team, and personally they were married. Sadly in 2018, Frans died. Working through her grief, Reinekke wrote. The result is her forthcoming book, Writing [...]
During the pandemic, health officials and politicians can help us stay alive, but we need writers and philosophers to help us live. Ray Robertson’s newest book, How to Die: A Book About Being Alive makes the argument that we can't be truly fulfilled until we think about and reckon with death. When his first novel, [...]
There’s a lot of talk about Experiential Learning, especially in colleges and universities where internships, co-ops, practicum placements, project-based learning, and other real life experiences clearly give an employability edge to students. On Career Buzz this week my interview with these three insightful panelists:Amanda Brown (top left) is the Manager, of Experiential Learning at Durham College in [...]
Luc Bihan is an internationally known French sculptor, trained in the San Francisco Art Institute. He has directed animation in both France and Canada and has supervised animation in China, North Korea, Poland, and Romania. As an artist, Luc feels art creation is a therapeutic meditative process, reflecting the subconscious and releasing inner thoughts and [...]
How are careers - and career management - changing, especially now, during and after the pandemic? How can organizations support employees to be their best, and grow and develop even as they work from home? How can education adapt, and support students to connect the dots from education to the world of work? Rich Feller is [...]
When Michael Newman went for a walk in Berlin in 2012, it was the start of a journey that led to his writing a novel, Between These Walls. When Michael went looking for a publisher, he entered the world of alternative publishing where he spoke to self-publishing companies like Friesen Press and Iguana Books. What does publishing a book do for your life or career? What options exist to [...]
In The Thoughtful Technosapien mini-series within Career Buzz, we explore our evolving relationship with technology. And today in particular, we’ll focus on how this plays out within the global coronavirus pandemic, looking at Engineering in Times of Crisis. In this episode, host Mark Franklin, is joined by Jerry Buckwalter, Chief Operating and Strategy Officer at [...]
Listen in this week as Mark Franklin connects with Mike and Michael. Mike Kirsh works in the advertising world as a producer & production manager making commercial video content for TV and web. As a producer he gets to work closely with directors and marketing agencies, building budgets to help bring creative ideas to life. Mike loves producing music, [...]
