By Cathy Keates
While you are in school, grades have a lot of significance. Often students assume that grades are required on resumés. But outside of school, grades are usually a whole lot less significant than they have been while you were a student.
Don’t be afraid to take that job in your family’s business and put on your resumé with pride. You may even find that job could offer a host of new opportunities on its own.
Jennifer Mansell, a fourth-year honours co-op environment and business student at the University of Waterloo, recently completed a work term in Costa Rica at the Centre for Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Learning, where she learned to slow down and live the "pure life."
By Mira Saraf
Vanessa Seneriches is a young entrepreneur who made the leap from 9-5 to full-time entrepreneur. Vanessa is currently working on her spa, body and bath line, The Sages Ayurveda, writing her blog, The Love Collage, and running a jewelery business, Rosetta Stone.
Most of us have either left a company or have been let go before, and we often don't know if we should ever talk to our former managers again. I say we should. We should stay in touch, maintain a relationship and always follow up.
Whatever you've learned in school and in life, you'll have the chance to use it in the insurance industry. It’s an industry that reflects the face and the values of Canadian society and has a constant need for talented, creative, motivated people.
The educational journey for some students ends once they finish their undergrad. Others may consider completing a second degree or doing a post-graduate certificate. Others, though, decide that they haven’t had enough of the trials and tribulations of university life, and apply to graduate school. Should you?
Timothy Mark won Schulich’s 2010 The Apprentice competition by creating marketing strategies for General Mills, Maple Leaf and Kraft, and was a finalist in the Canada's Next Top Ad Exec competition.
By Mira Saraf
Starting a business with a partner is almost comparable to moving in with your best friend, except in this case the dividing factor is not toilet paper, but salaries, shares or intellectual property. Many young entrepreneurs tend to jump into things and work on a handshake. Even if you can't afford legal counsel, taking the time to formalize the partnership with this advice will save you costly battles down the road.
As corporate dress codes become more flexible and less formalized, that which is deemed acceptable by the fashion police is becoming more ambiguous. Although we have been taught not to judge a book by its cover, don't be deceived--the clothes you choose to wear create an image that can either seal the deal or become your worst nightmare.
