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• Jan, 25th 2014
• 5,880

• Job Searching

Proper preparation is the key to completing any task successfully. Preparing for a job interview is no different. In fact, it can be very challenging to some who may become stressful with such important events. Obtaining information about the organiz

• Jan, 22nd 2014
• 5,357

• Interviewing,Job Searching

[:en]  When applying for academic jobs, education jobs, or any other types of jobs you must first go through an interview process. This is a process that is important for both the employer and the prospective employee. A great deal of informa

• Jan, 21st 2014
• 5,499

• Office Behaviour

Listening is something that we all say we do, but do we really? To be a good listener, one must have good listening skills. Yes, there are skills necessary to successfully communicate with others. Somewhere along the way, some of us have lost these s

• Jan, 20th 2014
• 7,796

• Career Management

[:en]It happens everywhere, even in a university environment. When you post a job, you expect to hire the best employee. Yet, there is going to be a few employees who just aren't happy about anything and use their union as their shield. The small num

• Jan, 17th 2014
• 5,729

• Career Management,Job Searching

Congratulations, your hard work has finally paid off; you have graduated from college.  Now it is time to look for a job. Whether you are considering an academic job, since you now have an advanced degree, there are many things that you should be co

• Jan, 13th 2014
• 5,528

• Career Management

If you are an employee in a firm you must be ready for the many changes that can happen while you work. From time to time, employees come and go, as well as managers. In many positions in education jobs or university jobs, adjusting to a new manager

• Jan, 01st 2014
• 5,486

• Job Searching

Today’s job seeker would be wise to take a good hard look at using social media sites as part of their search process. Sites like LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Google + have become major players in all aspects of an effective job search. That’s

• Dec, 30th 2013
• 5,468

• Job Searching

  Whether you are conducting your job search online or not, how well you present yourself in your cover letter and resume is critical to your success. Most people think of these two documents as carved in stone. In other words, once you’ve don

• Dec, 29th 2013
• 8,724

• Career Management

[:en] Why is it that some people seem to make rapid progress in their careers while others don’t? Are you one of the people sitting at the bottom of the ladder looking up and wishing? Whether you work for a Canadian university, in higher educa

• Dec, 26th 2013
• 9,498

• Job Searching

When a university posts a job opening, it must be clear and precise in the request. If the posting is not clear it can be easily misunderstood. On the flip side, if you do not understand certain university job posting terminology, you may not underst

• Dec, 18th 2013
• 10,725

• Interviewing

One of the most stressful processes that many of us do is to prepare and go through the process of a job interview. How can one prepare for an interview? You don't know who the person is you will be meeting with, you don't know what the environme

• Dec, 11th 2013
• 6,707

• Career Management

Have you considered working for a Canadian University? If you love to teach others and value the meaning of a quality education, perhaps an academic job or a job in education is something you should consider. A university is a whole world within itse