Career Professionals of Canada News Feed

By Brenda Collard-Mills. A resume is a marketing tool and the product being marketed is your client! In order to help my clients stand out from their job search competition, one of the homework assignments I ask each client to prepare is “What ONE word best describes you?” I don’t mean words such as reliable, honest, dedicated….almost every job search candidate will consider themselves to have those qualities. No one is going to say they are unreliable, dishonest and indifferet as an employee! In the April 2012 edition of Chatelaine…

By Stephanie Clark. I love to write, and do so daily. Along with my own “Journal,” to which I post as the mood strikes me, I write a monthly newsletter, a monthly blog on interview tips, and this bi-weekly blog for CPC. I also write weekly articles for a local daily paper, and ad-hoc articles for a variety of others. Good thing I love to write as I must also squeeze in some resume writing! Many career practitioners write resumes. Not only the obvious professional resume services such as my…

Ongoing training is essential for the self-employed. Credentials, up-to-date knowledge and processes, improved service all add up to income enhancement.

By Sandra Lim, CPRW, CCM, CECC, Cert. Cybercounseling. Has your interest in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) been piqued with Freddie Cheek’s multi-part article, What ‘Type’ of Resume Writer are You?, appearing in Résumé Writers Digest?  This complementary article addresses how one becomes qualified to administer and interpret the MBTI®. This topic of the MBTI® is also timely since the official professional association for MBTI® users will be holding its international conference in Toronto in July. Look for future synopses of conference sessions. The MBTI® is a very versatile tool,…