The Canadian Artists Network is the voice of Canada’s elder professional artists – across all disciplines. It offers programs that enable artists to remain relevant, connected, informed, and motivated. Artists don’t retire. Their creativity and skills do not diminish with age. Creativity lives forever. The Canadian Artists Network raises awareness of the value of these artists [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Naguib Gouda is President of Career Edge and a staunch advocate for paid internships. Naguib and Career Edge are dedicated to helping new graduates and internationally qualified professionals successfully launch and advance their career through paid internships. Sydney Helland is the Marketing & Communications Coordinator at Career Edge. Leveraging her education and transferable skills [...]
When Mike Klassen graduated from engineering school, he wanted to make a difference so he volunteered with Engineers Without Borders. That gig led to paid jobs with EWB where he spent three years first in Ghana, then Uganda and the UK, as a consultant, team leader and portfolio manager. He now works within Institute for [...]
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 [...]
