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Featured Guest Blogger: William Merunka
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Whether you are just starting out in your career, or you have some experience in your field, there will come a time when your career will seem to hit a brick wall.  This can be caused by a number of situations including: not being able to land a job upon college graduation, layoff at work, or even lack of interest at work due to change in responsibilities and/or work load that make you feel that you are not using your experience or knowledge.  Instead of sitting back and letting time and faith lay the path for your future, you need to step up and initiate change.  Here are a few things that you can do to help your career when it seems to come to a halt: [Read more...]

Paying It Forward in 2010

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Featured Guest Blogger: Angela Cristina Negro
The Professional Careerist, Managing Your Career Through Personal Development – Helping young engineering professionals navigate the choppy waters of building a career
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It’s the New Year.  2009 is now behind us and we are thrust forward into the throes of the unknown that is 2010.  I could do the usual and write about New Year’s resolutions that I will be making and…ahem…keeping…but I thought I would rather talk about a great theme that we should focus on for the next New Year.  The idea came to me after an in-depth conversation with a great friend!

I was thanking my friend Meghan for passing my CV around her office to a few key managers (because I recently quit my job and relocated back to my hometown of Montreal).  And in response to my thanking her, Meghan said the nicest thing; she said that she thought it was the least she could do seeing as someone had helped her get her job and she was just paying it forwardPaying it forward.  Yup, that simple gesture of paying forward the kindness you have experienced from others.

For those of you reading this thinking that Meghan is simply a really nice person, well you’re right!  But she is also a careerist: driven, persistent and ambitious.  And paying it forward is such an important thing for careerists to do, as well.  Here’s why: Continue Reading