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Are you looking to the next step in your career? If so, you should be tapping into a secret advantage that most job seekers ignore. It’s called the informational interview. Part networking, part information-gathering, and part low-key self-promotion, an informational
You’ve heard it before: to further your career, finding a mentor to guide you is important. Mentors are people who have experience and knowledge in your desired vocation, and who are willing and able to share what they know. But
We’ve all seen and heard it: when we win on an issue in the workplace, we call it good leadership. When we lose, we call it organizational politics. But in reality, it’s likely neither. Whether or not our position prevails
Extroversion versus introversion. Despite numerous studies and anecdotal situations that show otherwise, people still continue to assume that somehow extroverts are more successful in the workplace than introverts. As I have blogged about in the past, that is simply not
Last month, I told you all how excited I was to be one of the featured speakers at the Elevate Your Mind conference presented by the Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) of Alberta in Edmonton at the Shaw Conference Centre on
Earlier this year, my regular column for Canadian Accountant covered specific ways to get recognized as a high-potential employee. In it, I laid out seven ways to become worthy of high-potential employee status. Well, the topic of the high-potential employee