Career Professionals of Canada News Feed

By Audrey Field, PR & Marketing Advisor While this article focuses on strategies for a powerful presence and resume assessments at Career Fairs, many of these recommendations are worthwhile in any situation where you are manning a booth to promote your product or service. Career fairs are a purely marketing initiative. We all need to market our businesses occasionally. Take the day off and enjoy what you’re doing. Don’t worry about the mound of work on your desk. Enjoy hanging out in a new place with new people. As with…

Don Orlando, MBA, CPRW, JCTC, CCM, CCMC If you are a regular subscriber to professional organizations’ e-lists, you may have read comments that describe job fairs as “…a waste of time and money….” It doesn’t have to be that way. I’ll suggest why you might want to support job fairs (you’ve already seen a powerful hint in the title) and how you prepare for, conduct, and leverage these events to put clients on your calendar, money in your pocket, and something back to your community. Everything you read here is…

We have all seen those ads for certified résumé writers placed by ResumeEdge.com, CareerPerfect.com, and other online résumé writing firms. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work for one of these firms? There are many such résumé writing firms proliferating on the internet, but I limited my comparison to a selection of firms that are affiliated with industry résumé writing associations. These companies include: CareerPerfect.com, ResumeWriters.com, ResumeEdge.com, RealGoodResume.com, and e-resume.net. Not only do we have fellow members from these firms, but possibly those among us work…

By Margaret Page The facts are undeniable; more and more Canadian women are leaving corporate careers, escaping a field of institutionalized limitations and reaching for the freedom and flexibility of self employment. Canada is a global leader when it comes to women entrepreneurship. In fact, with more than 821,000 women entrepreneurs in Canada, this is one of the fastest growing segments of the Canadian economy – that is, 10 percent of all Canadian women are self employed. According to Stats Canada, women are leaving the workforce at twice the rate…