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Why a gap year is good and how skateboarding can save your life

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 [...]

Excavate your story. Ace your interview.

  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 [...]

Building Cool Things and Disrupting Entrenched Systems

  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 [...]

Learn from your failures with founder of Fail Forward. Plus, how to use Open Badges.

  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 [...]

lawyer-turned-novelist and social-worker-turned-tour-leader

Hear the career stories of lawyer-turned-novelist Kate Hilton, and social-worker-turned-tour-leader Michael Kerman. Law wasn't 'it' for Kate Hilton. But novel writing didn't look like it would pan out either -- until her first book 'The Hole in the Middle,' was picked up as Walmart's read-of-the-month. Michael Kerman loves leading his trips to Cuba, a third [...]

RoadToEmployment & Innovation Nation

Meet Denis and Clinton from RoadToEmployment.ca After Denis Luchyshyn and Clinton Nellist graduated university and hit a brick wall trying to find jobs, they hit the road. Along the way from Victoria to Halifax they interviewed hundreds of people, from CEOs to Career Professionals to other Students and Recent Grads. Their project and site, RoadToEmployment.ca [...]

Cubed author Nikil Saval, and Physician career change

Nikil Saval is author of a new book called Cubed: A secret history of the workplace. Tune in for an entertaining look at the history of the modern worker, that the modern worker can actually learn from.   Plus, hear how Dr. Aubie Diamond wound down his family practice so he could focus on delivering the very best services in ritual [...]

Boomer Business Coach, on Spring Membership Edition

CIUT's transmitter died last week and needs to be replaced. It sits atop First Canadian Place in downtown Toronto, and is on 'life support' now. You can help by pledging $25 or more (it's a charity - you get tax receipt) in the Sounds of Your City, Spring membership campaign. Donate Now and add Career Buzz as your favourite CIUT [...]

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