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By Cathy Keates

No More Networking “Hypocrites” – Introducing a New Model of Networking

Does this sound familiar? “I feel like such a hypocrite when I tell my clients to network – I hate networking!”

I have noticed an interesting pattern among career practitioners. When it comes to the subject of networking, many of us are feeling conflicted. While we are huge proponents of the practice of networking as the key strategy for job search and career success, many of us, when feeling safe and among friends, guiltily admit this little secret.

By Doug Wasyliw, R.S.W., P.R.P. – “The Retirement Coach”

“If you think early and thorough life planning for your 60s and beyond won’t help increase your odds of a significantly better last third of your life, try ignorance”. 
— 80 year old

Today’s busy and complicated lifestyles leave us little time to think about the next twenty to forty years. As we live through these next decades, we will probably face many things: increasing life expectancies, caring for aging parents, future health challenges, more cuts in government services, and the chance of unexpected or forced early retirement. These and other reasons make special planning and preparation for the next decades an important, if not crucial task. Despite this reality, recent studies and surveys say that most Canadians aged 45 and up do little or no specific mid-life planning. Though many expect to maintain the same or similar quality of life once in their sixties, they usually do too little to make sure this happens.

By Mark Venning

At the 14th annual conference of the Association of Career Professionals International in Puerto Rico (June 2003) over 40 career professionals from 11 countries and a representative from the United Nations gathered to discuss perspectives on working with older experienced clients in an aging world.

By Liza Arnason, Mentoring Programs Coordinator

Introduction

Welcome to the Ryerson Tri-Mentoring Program (launched Sept. 2001), a unique multicultural program with over 600 participants, who benefit from the learning and skill development opportunities gained through mentoring and collaborative partnerships. One student participant commented that “as a student mentor, I think the most valuable experience was that while sharing knowledge and experience, I was able to reflect on my own personal growth and learn…and in turn I was also able to share that discovery with my mentee.” Before exploring the development opportunities facilitated by mentoring, let’s briefly overview the program’s framework.

By Rick Klumpenhouwer Privacy Specialist, Canadian Career Partners

On January 1, all commercial enterprises in Canada came under the jurisdiction of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), a federal law. At the same time, two provincial statutes called the Protection of Personal Information Act (PIPA) have been enacted in Alberta and British Columbia, joining existing legislation already in effect in Quebec. For the first time, all Canadian businesses and private sector organizations are regulated under law for the way they manage the privacy of individuals they provide services for and, to a certain extent, they employ.