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5 Tips for Smart Career Change or Job Search During COVID-19
We are being required to continually change to adapt to the reality that COVID-19 has created. Creating a fulfilling work life takes time and energy, both resources we all are short of. So what can we do to rebuild our lives and careers? The answer is to bring energy back in. Learn 5 smart tips for career changers & job searchers to do just that and more.
Job Search During COVID-19 – Find Out Which Companies & Industries Are Hiring
Despite all the uncertainty, some industries in Canada are finding that it’s pretty much business as usual - or even better than usual - as the world adjusts to meet the challenges of COVID-19. Here's an overview of the bright spots in the Canadian job market right now. If you’ve ever dreamed about transitioning your career to one of these stable or booming industries, now might be a good time to make it a reality.
Resiliency For The Win in 2020 – How to Cultivate the #1 Quality You Need For Career Success
True resilience helps you move forward, when it feels much easier to give up on your goals and dreams for a better future. Learn more about how to build your resilience!
Want To Find Work That Fires You Up? Follow These 3 Steps and Get Started Now.
Do you know what gets you going in the morning, what makes you spring out of bed or sing in the shower? Follow these 3 steps and get started now.
How To Quickly Lower Stress & Boost Your Career Success [Video]
Feeling worried, confused or stress about your career or job? In this month's video blog, I walk you through a technique that our coaches frequently use to help minimize stress. It’s a simple technique that can create real, physical changes in your body – and over time – can improve your resiliency and minimize stress no matter what stress triggers crop up for you. Take a few minutes, settle in and get back control over your life.
3 Steps To Get Over Any Career Setback
Struggling with a career setback? Learn to transform this into powerful, positive change. Follow these 3 steps and you'll be on the road to career success again.
3 Post-Interview Strategies To Land the Job & the Top Salary [Video]
In this month’s video blog, I’m going to explain how, after the interview, you have a couple of key opportunities to establish yourself as a high-value candidate that will not only improve your chances of getting a job offer, but also position you to command top dollar in the salary negotiation stage. These strategies are subtle, but powerful. It’s all about making your interviewer feel valued and having those positive feelings attributed to you, the candidate. Watch the video and learn more!
5 Tricks to Make Job Interview Butterflies Go Away
Job interviews make everyone anxious and that can knock you off our game. Here are 5 top tricks for boosting confidence & reducing anxiety before your next interviewl
From Passion to Career – How To Turn Your Ideas Into An Actual Job
It seems everyone wants to know how to turn their passion into a career, but very few people know how to do it. Why do we get so lost connecting the dots between “passion” and “employment”? Read our blog to find out exactly why and how you can move forward, faster, in your career.
FIND YOUR CAREER FIT
5 Tips for Smart Career Change or Job Search During COVID-19
We are being required to continually change to adapt to the reality that COVID-19 has created. Creating a fulfilling work life takes time and energy, both resources we all are short of. So what can we do to rebuild our lives and careers? The answer is to bring energy back in. Learn 5 smart tips for career changers & job searchers to do just that and more.
Resiliency For The Win in 2020 – How to Cultivate the #1 Quality You Need For Career Success
True resilience helps you move forward, when it feels much easier to give up on your goals and dreams for a better future. Learn more about how to build your resilience!
3 Steps To Get Over Any Career Setback
Struggling with a career setback? Learn to transform this into powerful, positive change. Follow these 3 steps and you'll be on the road to career success again.
From Passion to Career – How To Turn Your Ideas Into An Actual Job
It seems everyone wants to know how to turn their passion into a career, but very few people know how to do it. Why do we get so lost connecting the dots between “passion” and “employment”? Read our blog to find out exactly why and how you can move forward, faster, in your career.
3 Ways to Get Moving When You Feel Stuck in Your Career
It happens to the best of us. Even the most goal-oriented, ambitious, and driven people can, from time to time, find themselves stuck in a rut. If you’ve been in a job, field, or industry for any significant period of time, it’s common to feel a bit stagnated and stifled – especially if you’re no longer feeling challenged or if your professional growth has plateaued. Here are 3 steps to take to be the positive force your career needs to get moving again.
Do I Have To Take A Step Backwards To Find Happiness In My Career?
One of the biggest fears we see in clients who are looking to make a change is that they will have to step backwards. They feel stuck because they are afraid they will have to take a pay cut but making a shift in your career doesn’t always mean you have to take a step backward.
Are You Smart But Stuck? How to Listen To Your Heart & Move Forward.
Don't overlook the one person that has the most power to help you overcome your problem – yourself. Learn how listening to your heart can get you out of your career rut.
Five Ways to Find Your Passion in 2018
If you’re ready to truly explore what motivates you and are ready to take the next step, here are five things you can do to help you find your passion.
How To Build Courage For Your Next Career Move
If your heart is telling you that you need a change but you feel stuck, then you need to build the courage for your next career move. Learn how here.
BEAT WORK RELATED STRESS
How To Quickly Lower Stress & Boost Your Career Success [Video]
Feeling worried, confused or stress about your career or job? In this month's video blog, I walk you through a technique that our coaches frequently use to help minimize stress. It’s a simple technique that can create real, physical changes in your body – and over time – can improve your resiliency and minimize stress no matter what stress triggers crop up for you. Take a few minutes, settle in and get back control over your life.
4 Secrets To Getting Along With Your Boss
Ever feel like you and your boss are out of sync? Wondering what to do? Learn the 4 secrets to getting along with your boss!
Are You Sabotaging Your Career?
Are you sabotaging your own career but don't know it?
Giving in to stress is like sabotaging yourself. Learn how to spot the signs and turn your situation around.
Strengths Are Like Perfume
Facing a challenge? Create an upward spiral of positivity and build your strengths. When we are struggling or when climbing to new heights, it is easy to forget where we are strong.
Focusing on strengths can create an upward spiral of positive feelings that equips us to face challenges with more ease.
The Best Career Advice Ever – Unleashing The Hidden Power Of Your Heart
Let’s face it. It’s easy to discount the power of the heart. In fact, many “heart myths” abound and people who follow their hearts are often thought of as impractical and whimsical. Nothing could be further from the truth!
How To Beat Stress: 2 Powerful Strategies To Take Back Control Of Your Time
If you think you don’t have enough time to do it all, you are absolutely right. Here are two life changing strategies that will make a big difference in how you feel about time.
Are Your New Year’s Career Resolutions The Same As Last Year?
Learn one powerful way to get the confidence you need to succeed in your career, this time. If you’re like me, you've noticed that setting new year’s resolutions is filled with emotion.
Hope is a Choice
When you feel so discouraged that you believe all doors are closed to you, hope is like a far-away planet that you can barely glimpse. So how can hope be a choice?
Hope – A Short Poem for You
An inspirational poem on hope for anyone who faces career & life challenges.
LAND THE RIGHT JOB
Job Search During COVID-19 – Find Out Which Companies & Industries Are Hiring
Despite all the uncertainty, some industries in Canada are finding that it’s pretty much business as usual - or even better than usual - as the world adjusts to meet the challenges of COVID-19. Here's an overview of the bright spots in the Canadian job market right now. If you’ve ever dreamed about transitioning your career to one of these stable or booming industries, now might be a good time to make it a reality.
3 Post-Interview Strategies To Land the Job & the Top Salary [Video]
In this month’s video blog, I’m going to explain how, after the interview, you have a couple of key opportunities to establish yourself as a high-value candidate that will not only improve your chances of getting a job offer, but also position you to command top dollar in the salary negotiation stage. These strategies are subtle, but powerful. It’s all about making your interviewer feel valued and having those positive feelings attributed to you, the candidate. Watch the video and learn more!
5 Tricks to Make Job Interview Butterflies Go Away
Job interviews make everyone anxious and that can knock you off our game. Here are 5 top tricks for boosting confidence & reducing anxiety before your next interviewl
How to Boost Your Security in the Gig Economy
Jumping from contract to contract? Want to thrive and not just survive? Here are a few ways to get some career security in the new gig economy.
Bring Your Personal Brand Into Your Resume
Does your resume look generic? Are you not having any success getting interviews? Maybe its time for you to infuse your resume with your personal brand!
Is Your Social Media Presence Helping or Hurting Your Career?
Social media has given us more connection between our personal and professional lives. Is your social media presence helping or hurting your career?
STUDENTS & NEW GRADS
Volunteering – Networking 2.0
Want to know a time-proven, effective way to network? Looking to land the right job? Our very own Client Happiness Manager, Rachel, writes about how volunteering opened up a world of opportunity for her job search. Get a boat-load of tips and strategies inside...
[Q&A Interview] Early Career? How a Coach Can Get You What You Want!
Early in your career & wondering how a coach can help you? Listen to this informative audio Q & A session between author, Laura Opoku, and Careers by Design Founder, Shirin Khamisa.
In School & Want To Get Involved? 9 Quick & Easy Ways
Getting involved is beneficial for the individual and the community as a whole for a range of reasons. Here are 9 quick and easy ways.
Still In School? Give Your Career A Boost: 5 Reasons To Get Involved!
Getting involved in school can advance your career. Here are 5 reasons why...
Job Fair Toronto – 5 Tips to Find the Job You Really, Really Want!
It’s unlikely that this untargeted approach will help you find a fulfilling job. Here’s how to enjoy and get results at the next Toronto job fair you visit…
The 5 Best Tips for Employment After Graduation
As youth unemployment hikes to nearly twice of the national average rate, it is no wonder that more and more[...]
CAREER CHANGE
4 Powerful Steps to Make Any Change Easier
I’m one of those people who despises change, yet, seems to constantly hurl themselves into it. Over the years I've discovered 4 powerful steps to make any change easier. Let me tell you about them and you can start making great strides in your career too.
Look Back to Plan Ahead in Your Career
Our new Leadership coach, Eileen Chadnick, shares a powerful set of 12 questions to trigger self-reflection and allow you to better prepare for the year to come.
3 Steps to Leap Ahead In Your Career
Working towards an important goal like advancing your career or doing work that makes you smile comes with wins and setbacks. Whether you are leaping ahead or feeling a little stuck, here's a practical strategy to support and inspire you.
Cultivating Hope For Your Career: 6 Tips to Stay Strong Through The Season
So what do you need to create a long term plan that can keep you inspired and motivated? Here are 6 tips to help you stay strong in your career plans:
How to Build Courage On Your Career Journey
Do you have a gremlin in your head telling you what you could have done or should have done to move your career forward - if only you were more productive, a better person, smarter, more creative, with more courage or [any other quality]?
Doing What Matters In The Second Half Of Life
You’ve had a career. You’ve had a family. You have some significant accomplishments under your belt. Maybe you’ve even earned some public recognition in Life. Now what? If you’re feeling unsure about what to do in the next phase of your life, you’re not alone.
BE HAPPY AT WORK
Six Smart Strategies for Making the Best First Impression at Work
Being the new kid on the block at work can be an exciting time. But, how do you make a good first impression and set yourself up for success during these all important first few weeks on the job? Here are six smart strategies to help get you started!
Happy Dance
We’ve been led to believe that if we’re serious about success, we will be rewarded. But there is another way...
Hope – A Short Poem for You
An inspirational poem on hope for anyone who faces career & life challenges.
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