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Arts funding cuts add to co-op job losses in B.C. You’re about to graduate…what next? URegina offers free classes for unemployed grads. Finding and getting the most out of virtual internships. McMaster University voted most vegetarian-friendly.
Please welcome our 10 new assistant editor interns! To help you get to know each of them a bit better, we asked them one, very serious career-related question: When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
19th annual Maclean’s rankings released today. Newfoundland and Labrador government launches Youth Retention and Attraction Strategy. Tuition rates vary considerably across Canada. Want a job? Hit the books. Pickets, lineups greet Mac students.
In a recent survey of graduating students by Dalhousie University, a majority of graduates (77.4%) indicated they worked while earning their degree. Nearly half (45.7%) said they worked anywhere from 11 to 25 hours per week.
More than half of young people surveyed said they would like to stay with one employer for the duration of their career, and the Government of Canada ranked first on the list of Canada’s Top Campus Employers.
Queen’s and Sherbrooke both scored A– in the medium (number of enrolments) category, while Trinity Western, a Christian university with approximately 4,000 students, also scored A– in the very small category.
Canadian universities advance in global ranking and point to their increasing profile outside North America. Graduates who can’t find jobs didn’t do enough to help themselves find job, study says. Virtual universities are a myth. A very Calgarian Thanksgiving in Ottawa. Video: Lost Generation.
While Saskatchewan may not be where most new grads picture they will launch their career, it currently has the lowest unemployment rate of any province at 5%, and contains the two cities which have the lowest unemployment rates in Canada, Regina and Saskatoon at 4.1% and 4.5% respectively.
A recent survey of MBA alumni found that while over half advanced their careers from Nov. 2007 to June 2009, only 23% working in Canada received promotions, fewer than in Asia, Europe and even the United States.
Examining how much students drink and which province parties the hardest. An Edmonton bar pays students $20 just to show up. University professors try to spice up yawn-worthy course titles to get more students to enrol.
A new survey by the Pew Research Center’s Social and Demographic Trends project, entitled Recession turns a graying office grayer: America’s changing workforce, indicates that while the job market might seem stiff, there are actually fewer young people in the work force today than there were in the 1990s.