In my experience working with many career clients, I've notice how good it feels to people when we land on just the right word for a strength of theirs. And conversely, I've notice how vulnerable and 'naked' people feel when they cannot name and describe their strengths, especially when it comes to communicating to prospective [...]
May 28, 2010 How do you change careers without changing careers? What if you’ve developed a career within one area and but you’re bored? When it comes to career choices, how do you avoid throwing the baby out with the bathwater? Friday’s Career Buzz guests build on their initial training and career experience and orchestrate [...]
May 7, 2010 https://www.careercycles.com/NEW/MP3/CB-2010-05-07.mp3 Download episode At 39, married and with kids aged 9 and 12, Stephen Laufer went to law school eventually becoming a crown attorney, and left behind his first career as a successful chiropractor. How did he manage this significant change? In addition to family support especially from his wife, he decided and [...]
April 23, 2010 https://www.careercycles.com/NEW/MP3/CB-2010-04-23.mp3 Download episode When Jonah Brotman was younger he thought he'd go into sports journalism, and used to think "profit was an evil thing." Then he discovered the connection between business and social mission, and founded, Operation Groundswell, which Jonah says does "Africa for beginners." Now he and Nogah Kornberg of Young Social [...]
April 9th 2010 https://www.careercycles.com/NEW/MP3/CB-2010-04-09.mp3 Download episode "We have this hunger or void, and at one point you say enough is enough. And when all the signs are there, you cannot NOT do it. And then once [you take] action, more signs pop up," said filmmaker, Ian Agard, who shared his story of having faith in the emergence [...]
March 26th https://www.careercycles.com/NEW/MP3/CB-2010-03-26.mp3 Download episode Why did Craig Baxter join the family business after university? It just happened, “as the day follows the night,” he said. Craig acknowledged, “I didn’t manage what I do,” but that has opened him up to happenstance: “My career has been serendipitous.” That’s how, after leaving the family biz, and [...]
March 12, 2010 https://www.careercycles.com/NEW/MP3/CB-2010-03-12.mp3 Download episode We talked to Dawna Wightman on the day of her theatrical opening, A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking. She told me afterward the show was sold out, and she and her cast received a standing ovation. Dawna was delighted! On the show, Dawna told us about transforming her beginnings of childhood neglect [...]
February 12th, 2010 https://www.careercycles.com/NEW/MP3/CB-2010-02-12.mp3 Download episode “The amount of career support received by employees was positively correlated to their stated intention to remain with their current employer. Employees were found to leave organizations where career discussions with managers were not occurring.” So wrote Career Buzz guests, Professors Lee Butterfield, Bill Borgen and Vivian Lalande of the Canadian Research Working [...]
February 5th 2010 https://www.careercycles.com/NEW/MP3/CB-2010-02-05.mp3 Download episode Bestelling author, award winning anthropologist, filmmaker, photographer, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, Wade Davis inspired us on Career Buzz. It’s worth a listen if you missed it. He said, “The greatest creative challenge is the struggle to be the architect of your own life… be patient. Do not compromise. Give your destiny time to [...]
January 22, 2010 https://www.careercycles.com/NEW/MP3/CB-2010-01-22.mp3 Download episode Chris Jarvis, an ordained pastor, had his faith shaken to the core one day, when he was working with at-risk youth on the streets of Toronto. A young mother was living on the street, earning an income through prostitution. He wanted to help. But no-one in his network or church [...]
