Top Career Tips

Thousands of college and university students and recent grads started summer internships this month. Whether your goal is to get meaningful experience, build your network or land a job at the end of the summer (or all three!), these must-read and must-watch TalentEgg resources will help you get the job done and then some.

There are 6 easy things you can do to boost your chances of landing your dream job.

When you graduate and start looking for a job, what matters most to employers? Your degree, your experience, or your interest in the work? Mosaic Sales Solutions’ Director of Talent Acquisition, Chelsea Newton, offers her advice.

You prepared for the interview, didn’t you? So why not take it to the next level. You can never be too prepared. Here are a few tips on how to get a head start.

Nicole Avery, Vice President/Business Leader of Consumer and Digital Marketing at MasterCard, tells us about about the company, the internships and how students like you can impress MasterCard with your applications.

Jillian Walker, a recent University of Lethbridge management graduate from Calgary, beat out more than 450 other entries to win an hour-long meeting with top executives from Starbucks Coffee Canada, Steam Whistle Brewing, GAP Adventures, Rogers Communications and KPMG.

You’re going to be faced with some unique challenges which your program probably didn’t, and couldn’t, prepare you for. Some of them are hurdles that all young employees will face, but others are specific to the PR industry.

UWO Management and Organizational Studies grad Carly Harris is two months into the merchandising rotation of the grad@Loblaw program at Loblaw Companies Limited’s head office in Brampton, Ont., where she’s working with the pork and sausage team in the meat and seafood department.