Career Buzz

With support of friends and community partners, Ali Canning founded Let’s Get Together! It’s a non-profit for parents, youth and communities to access information and resources for educational assistance and student well-being. The mission is to Empower families; and strengthen communities. And it supports well informed career and life choices.

Today we speak to Lets Get Together, Exec Dir and founder Ali Canning. We ALSO speak to 3 of her ‘student ambassadors’: Shanza Ayub, a PHD student at UofT, Jasnoor Grewal - grade 11 student at Chinguacousy Secondary School. And Abhishek Taneja, Grade 10 in Mississauga, co-founder of The Neighbourhood Post Youth Group – of Let’s Get Together!

What’s a job that uses your Effective communication and Conversational acumen; features Problem solving, Storytelling and Active listening. Technical sales is the answer. This isn’t selling laptops in stores, rather it’s Business To Business sales and business development, and it’s what today’s guest, Joseph Fung, knows all about. He’s built a technical sales software platform and now leads a training company called Uvaro where he serves as co-founder and CEO.  Joseph joins us to bust the myths about technical sales and help you understand how business development may be the hidden gem career you’ve been seeking.

Mark Franklin, Nicole Hamilton and Stephen Armstrong co-host this episode of CareerBuzz. Tune in to hear insights from career buzz hosts, selected powerful moments from recent shows, and today’s guest, Divya Sarma. 

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Imaging building a whole set for a major ballet performance, then, due to the pandemic, having to pull it all down again, before any performances. That’s what happened to Tim Moore, in Calgary, in March 2020. What’s Tim doing now while we wait out the pandemic? What are others in arts and entertainment doing? And what organizations exist to support people in an industry that’s used to feast and famine, but never a famine like This?

Today we speak to that set builder, Tim Moore, and also Cat MacKeigen, Director of External Relations at Strategic Arts Management. We also speak to David Hope Executive Director of the AFC whose mission it is to help Canadian entertainment professionals maintain their health, dignity and ability to work.

What to do if you have a career in airlines hotels conference centres, food service, all of which have been deeply affected by the pandemic?

What’s a flight attendant to do, during a pandemic? What are hotel and food services workers to do? Adam Pisarek works as an in-flight manager for Air Canada Rouge. Or I should say worked as an inflight manager. Due to his strong track record, his employer has kept him employed to wait  it out. What’s the job of an inflight manager? And how are airlines waiting it out? We speak to Adam Pisarek in the second part of today’s show.

But first, the pandemic has affected some sectors harder than others. Hospitality and food service is one of the most affected sectors by the preventive measures to avoid COVID spread. Businesses in Hospitality and food service have closed their doors resulting in massive layoffs. Ruth Rakoff is Director of Programs at Hospitality Workers Training Centre, a non-profit contributing to a strong hospitality industry. Normally, the Centre provided training to hospitality job seekers. During the pandemic, the Centre pivoted to support Toronto hospitality industry workers who are struggling, with practical resources on financial aid, food security, housing, and employment.

How do you manage a forest fire?   And how do you a get a job becoming a forest fire fighter? Later in today’s show we speak to an Ontario Wildland FireRanger Dean Rosen about his career story.

But first, how do you get around the stereotypes of an engineer job? You know, the designer in front of his or her workstation analyzing complex structures? Where are the jobs for those engineers who love working with people? Muneera Chowdhury found one. She’s an implementation consultant working with teams of people at client sites, implementing technical solutions. How did she get her job? What does she like about it?

When Naz Orang and Katie Sampson graduated with a PhD, they faced the dilemma of seeking an academic job, or exploring non-academic careers. Likewise when Darius Raisi and Alyssa Hermann graduated with a masters degree they faced a dilemma of entering a tough job market competing with both PhDs, and those with undergraduate degrees.

How did they navigate a job search in uncertain times? How did they resolve their dilemmas? What worked and didn’t work and what’s the story behind their present day success? Gain practical tips and inspiring stories on Career Buzz, from our panel:

in partnership with Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering at University of Toronto.

Tim Dunn is the director of digital customer experience at Scotiabank. In this episode of Careerbuzz Dunn explains the story behind his career, the growing field of work, what he looks for when he hires, and more.  

On this episode of CareerBuzz, the hosts get together (virtually of course) for the Love Your Radio Fall Fundraising Campaign broadcasted by CIUT.fm. Hosts Stephen Armstrong, Shellie Deloyer, Mark Franklin and Nicole Hamilton have adjusted to the changes COVID-19 has caused with respect to prerecording. Each host takes some time to bring up powerful moments from past shows.

Hamilton shares a moment she had with Tonya Williams on October 7. Williams is the founder and director of the Reel World Film Festival, a groundbreaking initiative in Canada that focuses on the lack of racially diverse and indigenous talent in mainstream media.

Armstrong is the host of Innovation Nation, which is a radio show about what it takes to create a healthy society, whether from the economic, cultural or social domain. He raises a few moments he recently had about media in the twenty first century.

Deloyer’s shows tend to focus on conscious evolution and growth. This week, she discusses the powerful moment with Sara Bibb from MKS HR Consulting and the importance of Human Resources for small businesses.

Franklin recalls two moments. The first with Ray Robertson where they talk about Robertson’s new book, How to Die, A Book About Being Alive. The second is a discussion with Reinekke Lengelle, where they review her book, Writing the Self in Bereavement / A Story of Love, Spousal Loss and Resilience.

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In a Career Buzz episode from 2012, I interviewed the team of Reinekke Lengelle and Frans Meijers. They shared their model of writing as a transformative tool for career management.  Reinekke and Frans were a professional team, and personally they were married. Sadly in 2018, Frans died. Working through her grief, Reinekke wrote. The result is her forthcoming book, Writing the Self in Bereavement / A Story of Love, Spousal Loss and Resilience. That and more we talk about on today’s Career Buzz episode.

Reinekke Lengelle is assistant professor of interdisciplinary studies at Athabasca University and senior researcher at The Hague University, in The Netherlands. She is a poet, a playwright, and symposium co-editor with the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling.

Reinekke kindly offers our readers 20% off pre-orders for her book, Writing the Self in Bereavement, available December 2020. Go here and use code BSM20.