Career Buzz

Dr. Hoda Kilani is raising Career Literacy one interview at a time. In this episode, guests Marie Zimenoff and Wayne Pagani talk about the meaning of career agility and the value of keeping your network fresh. We will also learn about the Me First Model. And finally, be sure to listen till the end to find out how to use the one percent rule to lead a successful career and life.

When the pandemic hit, job losses quickly followed. So, if you were in recruiting and staffing, business wasn't good. That’s what happened to Marc Belaiche and his team at TorontoJobs. So they took some of their downtime to plan and pivot. The resulting site, Guhuza.com, may just be the Uber of the recruiting and staffing sector. It’s a system that matches jobs to job seekers and streamlines the lengthy recruiting process from weeks to days. Listen to this episode to hear from president and co-founder of TorontoJobs and Guhuza, Marc Belaiche.

Dr. Hoda Kilani is raising Career Literacy one interview at a time. How do you overcome imposter syndrome? This episode of Hoda’s Career Info will tackle this career question and so much more as guests Noah Arney and Anna Gordon introduce us to “storying” and “mindset coaching” as well as offer tips that lead to career satisfaction and life success.

Dance across time with the unique career story of dancer, entrepreneur, body builder and rehabilitation therapist, Kristin Haight. At a critical turning point Kirstin accessed career counselling to help her identify her key skills and interests, link them to career possibilities and help her make a well informed choice.

She’s made many choices. After a lengthy career as a professional dancer in Winnipeg, mentored by the dance trailblazer Rachel Browne, a foot injury led Kristin to her first career change. Since then she’s made diverse career choices that have led her into Filmmaking, personal training, dance instructing, body building and now, into rehab therapy. She was even named Ms. Figure Manitoba in 2019. Of these many twists and turns and career choices, Kristin says “Any decision I’ve made has come true.” She now works at a rehabilitation therapy assistant which she calls “soul filling work”. There’s much to learn in this interview with Kirstin Haight.

Kirstin Haight on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristin-haight-a69406b3/

Kristin received career counselling through her connection to Dancer Transition Resource Centre https://dtrc.ca/  She accessed career counselling by CareerCycles https://careercycles.com/

Kristin learned personal training here https://manitobafitnesscouncil.ca/

Life and times of dance icon, and Kristin’s mentor, Rachel Browne https://rachelbrowne.org/

Kristin worked on this film about dance icon Rachel Browne https://agoodmadness.com/

Kristin danced this solo choreographed by Rachel Browne https://vimeo.com/128929304

Kristin’s personal training site https://www.fluidmuscle.com/

Kristin studied Rehab Therapy Assistant program at CDI https://www.cdicollege.ca/study-on-campus/manitoba/programs-by-campus/winnipeg/rehabilitation-therapy-assistant/

Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg where Kristin works  https://hsc.mb.ca/

Dr. Hoda Kilani is raising Career Literacy one interview at a time. On a recent episode of Hoda’s Career Info, she interviewed Rubaica Fidvi and Rex Roy.

Our interviewer, Hoda Kilani, is a Certified Professional Career Coach and Founder of Right Career Fit. Find Hoda’s career info on Youtube and Soundcloud and Linkedin.

After being shot at, threatened at gunpoint and rattled by having to catch drug runners, Robert High decided to change careers. He left the US Coast Guard and began a new career chapter as a private yacht boat captain. Hear Robert High’s fascinating career story, and take a tour of the 150 foot Cabernet yacht in the second half of today’s show.

The previous episode with John Hogan led interviewer, Mark Franklin, to think about what the public and listeners might not know about accessing career help. Career professionals often fly below the radar screen of most people. Angie Bjornson, CareerCycles associate, joined to chat about how and why people can benefit from a career professional. Like many career professionals who have previous work experience, Angie has a human resources background, and has been a career professional and senior associate CareerCycles for over 10 years.

What career can take you from Canada to Europe to Africa to the Middle East, and back again? You might think it’s a career in diplomacy or global finance or international aid. But you might not think about a career in… learning and development.

John Hogan is an accomplished Global Training and Development Leader with 20+ years of experience. His peripatetic career has taken him from Canada to the UK, to Kenya, back to Canada then to Saudi Arabia and now back in Toronto. John has experience in government transformational leadership, local government capacity building, institutional effectiveness, advanced leadership training, emerging economies, and sustainable urban planning. When John was going to return to Canada after 3plus years working in Saudi Arabia, he sought help from a career professional to make a well informed choice about next steps. With career management help from a CareerCycles Associate, John landed a role as a Senior Training at CIBC.

On this episode we hear from Julie Lau, who is the Director of Engineering and Business & Operational Excellence at Chemtrade, which is an industrial chemical company based in Toronto with operations all over North America and Brazil.  Julie generously joined the career management class that host Mark Franklin teaches at University of Toronto. You’ll also hear from attentive students in the class who posed some helpful questions toward the end of the segment.

Dr. Hoda Kilani is raising Career Literacy one interview at a time. On a recent episode of Hoda’s Career Info, she interviewed Devon Turcotte owner of Careerified. purpose of changing the career conversation, and JP Michel, founder of SparkPath, creator of Challenge Cards

Our interviewer, Hoda Kilani, is a Certified Professional Career Coach and Founder of Right Career Fit. Find Hoda’s career info on Youtube and Soundcloud and Linkedin.

This episode is brought to you by The OPTIONS Program in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering at the University of Toronto. 

Four U of T engineering alumni working in sustainability sat down for an in-depth conversation with host Mark Franklin, engineer turned career coach, to discuss their work and essential tips for conducting a job search in sustainability. You'll hear how alumni prepared to transition from graduate school to the workplace, and the specific strategies alumni employed to land a job.