Careers aren’t a straight, upward path. After you land that co-op placement, or that job, then what? Especially if either one is not what you thought it would be. Sarah Law is the Senior Manager of Early Talent Acquisition (TNO) at the Royal Bank of Canada. In this episode, Annie talks to her about thriving during your co-op placement, or even in your working career. To Sarah, there’s two key aspects to being resilient: Recovering quickly, and the ability to be elastic.

Most students come to college because they want a meaningful job when it’s all done. What’s that look like from an indigenous perspective? In this episode, Alice speaks to Eli, an Indigenous student from our Social Service Worker Program, and his Indigenous Studies professor, Dani Kwan-Lafond. Eli also works at Egale Youth Services, an LGBTQ youth support organization, and grew up in foster care, while Dani is also a social worker. To Eli, career resilience means being allowed to dream, have hopes and push forward, without getting sidetracked. The pair also talk about the importance of connections, and when to change your career’s direction.

Have you ever had a big change in your life that you had to adapt to? Moving to another country for school is one of the biggest changes you can make. In this episode, Alice speaks to four different international students, who share their school and career experiences coming to Canada. This episode is about big choices, major life decisions, a change of setting, and how to be resilient during the process of change.

Now that you’ve gotten a job, how do you keep it? Here’s what the employers you want to hire you have to say about it. Piotr Mierzejewski, the director of DB2 Development, IBM Data and AI at IBM Canada, and Greene Verweij, Senior Recruitment Consultant from Blackberry share their perspective on career resilience.

What do you do when employers aren’t calling you back? Rashib Kanodia graduated from Centennial College’s Financial Planning program. He has personal stories to tell about what he did when his job search didn’t work out and reveals the strategies that helped him bounce back, including faith and conviction.

Daedreen Peterkin is a graduate of Centennial College’s Project Management. After her graduation, she ran into problems finding a job and was told she didn’t have enough experience. Now, though, she’s a project manager at Impact Packaging. How did she get there? Listen to find out!