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Thank you to CPC Board Advisor Tara Orchard who has volunteered to run and facilitate our CPC Mastermind Mentoring Group Program in 2013. If you want to mentor professionals and receive mentoring in return, CPC’s mastermind groups are for you. Participation is FREE for CPC members. Learn More about Mastermind Mentoring Groups.
A LinkedIn recommendation is a more thorough representation of a business relationship. It can be time-consuming to write so if you are requesting one, proactively write it up yourself then send to the person to whom you are making the request. If someone is asking you for one, have the requester write up something themselves and you can tweak and edit accordingly.
In working with you, I found that the process of resume development should be pursued with thoughtfulness and consideration. Taking the time to focus in on the accomplishments of my past and quantifying my value in each role has been one of the greatest practical skills I have learned from you. One of the first things I did at work was to quantify the mediation work I performed into legal/arbitrations savings for my Director. She was wowed by that information and immediately wanted to show it to her boss.
By Sharon Graham. As the holiday season approaches, we have seen an escalation in job search scams targeting Canadians. Job seekers need to be extra diligent these days. As Career Professionals, we are all advocates for ethics and integrity in our market. Advise your clients to be on the watch for these RED FLAGS: FAKE JOB POSTINGS – If your client types in a job title on a job board, looking for postings and the result turns out to be a sales pitch to buy career services — tell your client to…
If you are active on LinkedIn you may have started receiving endorsements from some of your connections. I have, and must say that when they started arriving in my Inbox I thought spam hackers had infiltrated the accounts of some of the people in my network and were sporadically sending out these messages. I became a bit more curious when I noticed endorsements were coming from some individuals with whom I had very little, if any, interactions.
By Sharon Graham. Sporting a moniker of Canada’s Career Strategist, you have to know that I take my responsibility seriously. So, I thrive on developing meaningful relationships with like-minded professionals — the kind of professionals who understand the value of sharing their expertise. These are the people I follow. Lately, I have been following my tweeps and monitoring them more closely. I have made a personal revelation, which I would like to share. It is clear that many followers, including myself, don’t appreciate threads that go on about someone’s daily activity. Around the…