What’s a job that uses your Effective communication and Conversational acumen; features Problem solving, Storytelling and Active listening. Technical sales is the answer. This isn’t selling laptops in stores, rather it’s Business To Business sales and business development, and it’s what today’s guest, Joseph Fung, knows all about. He’s built a technical sales software platform and [...]
Performing artist and dancer, Divya Sarma, and three Career Buzz co-hosts - Nicole Hamilton, Stephen Armstrong and Mark Franklin - share insights on how the pandemic has affected everyone's careers. Plus, we ask you to support Career Buzz and CIUT - a registered charity - on this Sound of Your City fundraising show. Please donate! Give $25 and get a [...]
Imaging building a whole set for a major ballet performance, then, due to the pandemic, having to pull it all down again, before any performances. That’s what happened to Tim Moore, in Calgary, in March 2020. What’s Tim doing now while we wait out the pandemic? What are others in arts and entertainment doing? And [...]
What to do if you have a career in airlines hotels conference centres, food service, all of which have been deeply affected by the pandemic? What’s a flight attendant to do, during a pandemic? What are hotel and food services workers to do? Adam Pisarek works as an in-flight manager for Air Canada Rouge. Or I should [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
