Several years ago, I worked with a more senior gentlemen who had been let go by his employer after over 25 years of service. Jack was a Mechanical Engineer by education and had worked for a large, multi-national manufacturing company located just outside of Toronto. His last...
When I first spoke with Rosa, she was quiet and fairly despondent having just been told of her termination the day before. She had worked as a customer service manager for a retail group for the past 15 years. I learned from the HR Manager that she had a...
The moment an employee is told their services are no longer required, their mind immediately turns to the problem of replacing their income. For most people, having to navigate today’s fast moving job market by themselves is a lonely and frustrating prospect.
To that end, the goal of...
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Once you are happy and have finalized your résumé, the next step is to make sure their online presence is friendly, professional and up to date.
Generally, employers will use online resources first to search for candidates that fit their...
When working to market your résumé, you must develop the largest pool of job opportunities possible by addressing as many potential résumé marketing avenues as possible. One way of doing so is through the use of Recruiters and Employment Agencies -...
When job seekers are ready, we encourage them to access the 'Hidden Job Market' to increase their potential opportunities. The reason is that the 'hidden job market' gives us access to job opportunities that have not yet been advertised and, it is a rarely utilized résumé...
Teaching job seekers about networking may seem like a very basic concept - and it is for those that are already used to maintaining one. However, for those who haven’t had the need to utilize a network for career transition purposes, it can seem like a foreign concept and...
In the WorkHorseU Program, we introduce job seekers like you to the ways in which we suggest candidates to market their skills and career histories - whether that be through networking, the hidden job market, via recruiters, etc.
Once your marketing efforts start coming to fruition, it's...
We don’t need to be seasoned psychologists to be successful in the interview process but having a good understanding of how human emotion plays a role, is essential to one’s success.
Emotional...
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