Jay Mandarino, CEO of CJ Group of Companies, tells us about overcoming his barriers to a thriving career and life and giving back to his community. He talks about how skateboarding is linked to transferable skills and how it helped him gain confidence to become the amazing person he is today. At 20:25, Denis Luchyshyn [...]
Because your résumé can't do all the talking for you, Anand Patel, the co-founded InterviewDrill, explains Their app that aims to make interview preparation easier. He is a product manager that draws upon understanding his consumers to gain success in his career. Tune in Wednesday and ace the interview! Starting at 26:56: What can writing about [...]
Benjamin Guth loves making a difference so when the rules for Canada's temporary foreign worker program changed, Benjamin started MobilizeJobs.ca to put unemployed Canadian youth to work. He told Career Buzz listeners (May 27, 2015), "I get to send them on adventures. It's probably the most fun I've ever had in my life." How the [...]
How can Canadian companies respond to recent changes to the temporary foreign worker program with creative ways to connect unemployed Canadians to available jobs? Benjamin Guth, an entrepreneur and founder of Mobilize Jobs, is an advocate for Canadian youth from coast to coast. In the ever-changing labour landscape, Benjamin has found new, creative ways [...]
When Dr. Marcia Sirota was "too nice" she lost sight of her own wants and needs, and her personal life fell apart. That led her to shift her psychiatry practice, and found the Ruthless Compassion Institute to focus on the "nice versus kind" conundrum. "People go to extremes in how they deal with themselves and each [...]
When Dr. Marcia Sirota noticed how many people suffer from a deficiency mindset and too much self-criticism, she responded with the Ruthless Compassion Institute. Marcia is a board-certified psychiatrist, Huffington Post blogger, and author of the Short and Sweet Guides to Life series. Tune in for Marcia’s fresh perspectives on career and culture. What [...]
Career Buzz Podcast: Are you a mountain or a leaf? "We often get lost in our head when we're trying to change things in our lives and communities," Lodro Rinzler told Career Buzz listeners (April 26, 2015). Author of The Buddha Walks into the Office, Lodro spoke about the importance of meditation to help you "come [...]
You can gain so much by hearing other people's career stories, but you have to listen carefully and in special ways. After interviewing over 300 guests on Career Buzz, and hearing thousands more stories in our CareerCycles practice, I'd like to share these five ways to listen and learn, next time you hear a career [...]
Ashley Good on learning from failure Starting from a side project taking over the leadership of the Engineers without Borders failure report, Ashley Good (Career Buzz, March 11, 2015) founded the world's first failure consultancy, Fail Forward. How did it start? She came back from a troubled overseas project and when she got back "the only [...]
Starting from a side project, Ashley Good founded the world's first failure consultancy, Fail Forward. Hear how she encourages us to embrace, create and evolve from failure. After a first career at TVOntario, Don Presant became involved in educational technology for career development. Tune in to hear founder of Learning Agents share insights about [...]
