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IMBA Grad Starts His Online Marketing Career With Canadian Tech Company Kobo
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HR Grad Went From Intern To Employee Experience Co-ordinator At Kobo
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Daniel Rubinger, recent grad from the University of Torontos Master of Biotechnology program, was one of the 50,000 undergraduate...
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Next year, third-year Ryerson University student Pamela Livingstone will graduate from the Ted Rogers School of Management with a...
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Turn your hobby into your career by becoming a Software Developer. Software Developers are the creative minds behind computer...
How To Get Software Experience Without Buying Costly Programs
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Last summer, I saw a job ad with a list of responsibilities that almost made me refresh the job board menu without a second thought....
The Inside Scoop On Independent Contract Work In The IT Industry
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Considering working as a consultant or an independent contractor? No surprise there! More people are choosing this route and there has...
Suit Up! Formal Job Interview Attire Preferred By One-Third Of CIOs
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When it comes to job interviews, sometimes you can never be too formal. Students and recent grads looking to become IT professionals...
4 Paths To A Career In Technical Writing
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If 404 error messages with no info or ambiguously-worded assembly manuals give you restless sleep, you may have the genes of a technical...
Women In Tech: Cultivating The
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Listen up, ladies. We're dominating the professional workforce right now, but the ol' boys club is still taking over the technology...
Women Cracking The Code: Programming As A New Literacy
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As computers become ever more ubiquitous in our everyday lives, the ability to bend technology in accordance to our needs will become...
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Over the last few months, Hamed Al-Khabaz has become famous for that rare breed of initiative that can land you dozens of job offers...
From Co-op Student To CEO: Amiee Chan's Impressive Career In Tech
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A true Canadian at heart, Amiee Chan likes to lace up her skates and play ice hockey with a womens league from her university days, run...
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You got an interview. Congratulations! Its likely you searched for jobs on websites like TalentEgg , leveraged your network , and...
Advice From A University Of Toronto Engineering Grad Working In Silicon Valley
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For those aspiring to work in the technology industry, working in Silicon Valley is a dream. Brad Menezes, who graduated from the...
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We currently live in a world where the word blackberry no longer makes you think of the fruit and the idea of leaving your house sans...
Average Starting Salaries For New Grad Management And Technology Consultants In Canada
Cassandra Jowett
Consulting can seem like a pretty glamourous job: Nice suits. Downtown offices. Fancy client dinners. Criss-crossing the globe. Are...
Office Hours: Learn About Management Consulting And Technology Consulting Careers At Accenture
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On Thursday, September 13, 2012, Lisa Kramer and Sean Keown from Accenture joined us for live, online Office Hours. Office Hours is an...
6 Surprising Jobs That Can Earn You A 6 Figure Salary
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If your big dreams involve making the big bucks, it may be time to consider jobs in the design and technology sectors. According to...
The New Age of Volunteering: Contributing Your Skills Online
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Volunteering does the soul and community good. But let's be real. We're busy people who are often juggling work, school and, for some,...
Industrial Technology Grad Hatches Sales Career With Home Improvement Leader TTi
Cassandra Jowett
ForIndustrialTechnology grad Patrick Shum, the perfect entry level job involves working with both technology and people - a unique mix he...
Social Media Never Sleeps, But I Do
Christina Pellegrini
Why my part-time employment status poses a threat to my success in social media marketing Few things matter more in social media...
How To Safely Use Social Media At Work
Alanna Glass
Don't worry about minimizing that Facebook or Twitter page that's been open on your computer every time your boss walks by. It turns...
TalentEgg On Twitter: What Are The Must-Have Internet And Social Media Skills For New Grads?
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We've been publishing a lot of very interesting articles lately related to the Internet and social media, as well as the types of...
How To Brush Up On Your (Internet Markup) Language Skills
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Earlier this year, I learned that I was shortlisted for a job alongside one other candidate. Id submitted a portfolio , interviewed...
Who To Follow On Twitter: Technology Employers Edition
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Following an employer on Twitter can be one of the best ways to learn about the company, its culture and its career opportunities. Not...
Cool Graduate Degrees And Certificate Programs For Technology Grads
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Have you ever thought of going further into your technology career? Or perhaps youve worked for a while and you're looking for growth...
Need Help Preparing For A Job Interview? There's An App For That
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Job interviews are the best opportunity to show potential employers who you are and what you can do. So how can you make sure that...
20-Year-Old Web Developer Hatches His Tech Career With A Fun Side Project
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Mike Rice is a juggler. Not in the literal, swords-swinging-in-the-air-while-he-breathes-fire sort of way, but in the side-project way....
The Tech Industry's Most In-Demand Skills And Jobs
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2012 has only recently arrived and with it came a slew of job opportunities in the technology field. While the Canadian national...
Average Starting Salaries For New Grad Technology Jobs
Lauren Stein
Youve worked hard for that Computer Science degree, becoming multilingual in code, building databases and maybe even applying all those...
Behind The Scenes With A Content Intern At Kobo
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Anthony Wong is a recent Simon Fraser University communications grad who is currently working as a Content Intern at online eBook...
Behind The Scenes At LightSpeed, The Fastest-Growing Company In Quebec
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This year, Montreal-based start-up LightSpeed was ranked as the fastest-growing company in Quebec and the 24th fastest in all of Canada...
Improve Your Employability By Working On Your
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Lets face it. Its a tough time to be a recent university graduate. For years we have worked extremely hard to pass every class, and...
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The majority of people working in Canadas digital media industry are young, well-educated and very satisfied with their work. These...
Digital Innovator Mark Reale On Networking And, More Importantly, Being Useful To Others
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Mark Reale is a self-proclaimed "late bloomer" to Toronto's growing tech biz. Studying economics and commerce at university wasn't for...
Students Experience A Day In The Life At An IBM Lab
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IBM recently hosted its second annual "Experience IBM Day" on at its Markham, Ont., lab just north of Toronto. About 50 students from...
Co-op Spotlight: 2 UW Students Create Their Own Company Instead Of Working For Someone Else's
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Most students tend to associate co-op with working for large corporations. But two University of Waterloo students, Prem Kalevar and...
Employers Say IT Grads Need Business Skills Too
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A recent employer survey shows that one out of four companies are concerned about the technical aptitude of job candidates, but there is...
What Can I Do With My Computer Science Degree?
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Whenever you look at job listings , most office jobs require you to not only be "computer literate" but to also have knowledge and...

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