Strategies To Land Your First Job The following was originally published as a 2-part article for the Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) Student Newsletter in December, 2014: Here is a scenario: You are 20-something and you have recently graduated after having been in school since… before you can remember. After graduation, you and some friends decide […]
Read MoreWhat Do Employers Really Want? After spending more than 15 years as part of the dynamic world of recruiting, I have had the pleasure to meet many job-seekers. A large percentage of them were gainfully employed when I initially met them, some of them were between roles, and others were new to the workforce. Regardless […]
Read MoreRecruiting in Motion on CTV! Although winter is in full-swing and throughout most of Canada we are battling the worst weather we have seen in many years, there does appear to be a “break in the storm”. We are starting to see the days get longer, and we are experiencing temperatures that may not be […]
Read MoreCHANGE IN THE NATIONS CAPITAL We always talk about change being at the heart of every decision (and cliché). It’s tough for most of us to recognize we need it until it smacks us in the face! Well, given the changes underway for me and my career, I thought I would try something new – […]
Read MoreYou’re a Winner Baby… If you want to be successful at something, you have to make it a habit. Vince Lombardi said “Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the […]
Read MoreRecruiting Like it’s 1999! Candidates are an incredibly interesting, complex, and diverse group of people. They each bring a unique combination of soft and hard skills to the table, and can never be merged into a simple group or category. Shortly after I met my first candidate in 1998 I realized this simple fact; candidates […]
Read MoreOur newest location – the center of the universe! I have been living in Toronto for over 20 years and, as many Torontonians have experienced when traveling throughout Canada, I will sometimes get the “raised eyebrows” when people hear that I am from Toronto. This is because there are many Canadians that dislike those of […]
Read MoreTis The Season To Not Forget Your Job Search One can always hope that on the first day of Christmas your true love gives you, “A job with a Big Salary”; however it is far more likely they are going to give you a firm kick and tell you to step up that job search […]
Read MoreWelcome to our first blog! We knew that a Recruiting in Motion blog was long overdue, but when we finally sat down to decide what to write about, we were stumped. What did we want to say? After a recent team-brainstorming session, many (supposedly great) ideas were tossed around, but were then neatly placed in […]
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