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Whether you’re a university graduate looking to land your first job, the victim of a corporate restructuring, or looking for a new career opportunity, the waiting game to hear “you’re hired” can be stressful. Even more so when the unemployment starts to exceed the one-year mark. There’s

One-in-four employed Canadians work shifts, and one-in-five is engaged in nighttime shift work, according to The Workers Health and Safety Federation of Ontario. Firefighters, flight attendants and factory workers are just some of the professionals who’re working the so-called dreaded “skeleton

The smell of Rub-A535 always reminds me of my grandfather. I spent a lot of time at my grandparents’ house after school, and he would come home from his construction job, dusty, sweaty, and beat. He’d take out the muscle cream, taking his time to apply it to all the busted parts of his

Have a spring fling. The warmer weather is time for career growth and renewal so how about growing your skill set and getting a seasonal job. Many of us are under the impression that seasonal jobs are part of the Christmas hiring trend – they appear like the tree ornaments and then go away for

  In past decades, when a person’s job was considered to be a “skilled trade”, the first thing that often sprang to mind was men wearing hard hats and steel-toed boots. Today, thanks to a combination of social progress and serious shortage of skilled workers, opportunities