Many employers practice education snobbery. Often an employer is judgmental about a candidate’s educational history, including the institutions they attended, the courses they took, and the marks they received or their lack of education. The pursuit of formal education beyond high school is not for everyone. It certainly was not…

If you do not ask, you do not get. While we all know money is not everything, most job seekers only negotiate salary when negotiating a job offer. Presuming the hiring manager says, “$85K is the best I can do,” then your next words should be along the lines of: …

Since my mid-20s, I have been studying two things that fascinate me: How someone uses language-the words they chose. How political self-interest creates and maintains geopolitical divides. I believe humanitarian aid should be accessible to anyone-much more so than military aid, which Western governments incur debt to provide almost instantaneously-regardless…

We all know someone who walks into a room and instantly turns heads. There is an immediate attraction to them without any apparent effort on their part. Their company makes you feel good. They seem cool, confident, collected, self-assured, and comfortable in their own skin. …

“Emotions have no place in business unless you do business with them.” — Friedrich Durrenmatt, Swiss author. You may have heard the saying, “People buy on emotion and rationalize with logic.” This consumerism adage is also true for how employers hire. Hence, there is an unspoken hiring truism you need…

We all know someone who seems to get job opportunities dropped into their laps, whose career appears to be a seamless meteoric rise. Job opportunities don’t fall into some people’s laps more than others; they’re available to everyone. What sets the “job opportunities fall into their laps” people apart: They…

“It ain’t over till it’s over.” — Yogi Berra. In other words, you don’t fail until you give up. Job searching in one sentence: Present yourself to employers so they can decide whether you’re worthy of being on their payroll. Hence, job searches are inherently rejection-ridden. …

This morning the sun rose in the east. The morning rush hour traffic on the DVP was stop-and-go. A homeless man who spent the night on a Bay Street grate got up and rolled up his sleeping bag to begin his day wandering the streets of Toronto. …

Interview mistakes are inevitable; what matters is the extent of the mistake. Being judged by a stranger is never comfortable. You act desperate when you have less than $700 in the bank. The number of mistakes you can make during an interview is endless, from showing up five minutes late…