The one tool you need for career success
You have questions about your career, right? I mean, I’m guessing that’s how you landed on a blog written by a career advisor. This is always hard to articulate to people, but let me try. You are unique and special and wonderful and there is no one in this world exactly like you. Despite that, […]
Careers and the housing crisis
Politicians shouldn’t get all the blame There’s a housing crisis here on PEI. No shock there, there’s a housing crisis pretty much everywhere in Canada. Lots of people are looking for places to live, but the costs are exorbitant, demand is much higher than supply and plenty of communities are seeing homelessness rise. While everybody […]
Does money really not matter?
Have you ever noticed that the people who say, “money isn’t the most important thing in life” tend to be billionaires? I mean, on one hand, the person who has more money than several small countries do probably has a good chance to prioritize other areas of their lives because finances don’t really top the […]
Hollywood is on strike
When actors are striking, what does that mean for meaning at work? Have you ever had someone tell you that to find the perfect career you should think about what you would do for free, and then pursue that? It’s a great idea, isn’t it? If you could spend every day doing something that […]
Does the name on your resume count you out?
The name on your resume can carry a lot of weight I’ve seen a lot of first resumes in my day. I’ve advised on a lot of first resumes in my day too. Living in a diverse environment means that one of the more common questions I get about resumes is ‘what name should I […]
Are career assessments really useful?
Raindrops on roses, and whiskers on kittens. Research careers using career assessments. (OK, it doesn’t rhyme. I never claimed to be a poet.) Career assessment tools are abundant online. They can be super helpful in directing you toward careers of interest. However, given that the internet is literally a place where anybody can publish anything, […]
Work-life balance in three buckets
Work-life balance is a concept that came out of the women’s movement in the early 1980s. At the time, it was a term associated with advocating for flex hours and maternity leave for women. By that time, of course, women were in the workforce in droves, but were still expected to be the primary managers […]
Setting goals in a really weird year
When it comes to our kids, we often forget how much responsibility they really can take on. I mean…we’re their parents, so that’s not surprising. I can remember, quite clearly, when my daughter couldn’t even roll onto her side from her back. She started out needing so much of my help, and it just became […]
How to not suck at writing a first resume
What if you are on the hunt for a part-time job and you’ve never worked before? Plenty of places have already started putting up “seasonal hiring” signs, so the jobs are out there if you want one. The challenge, of course, is that you may feel like you don’t have much, if any, experience to […]
Job searching: not for the faint of heart
Job searching is not fun. I mean, I work in career development. It’s my job to help other people find jobs, and I don’t think it’s fun. It’s tough to put yourself out there day after day, to keep trying as you send applications out into the void and hear nothing back. And then to […]