HAPPEN Re-Launches at the Mississauga Living Arts Centre
Last Thursday, the New HAPPEN re-launched. Given the fact that we were fighting for media attention on the same day the Federal budget was unveiled, it was nice to have the Cogeco Burlington and the Mississauga News picking up the story. We hope as HAPPEN regains...
A Fresh Look at Self-Employment
I was reading online at Quartz at Work that the number of Self-employed Americans could triple just two years - by 2020. Freshbooks, an accounting software company in the U.S., released the results of a two-year study that reports that as many as 42 million Americans....
The Disappearing Company Job
There was a time, albeit brief in relative terms, when you would do better financially than your parents, and your offspring could reasonably expect to do better financially than you. With the radical change in income inequality that has occurred in recent years, that outcome has been reduced to a coin toss.
Job Search Roadmap
By Sara Curto Whether you are just graduated, currently employed or recently let go, you are beginning your job search journey. This journey will be a tough one, one with a lot of self-reflection, ups and downs with the goal to find your way into an opportunity that...
How to Bulletproof Your Finances from Sudden Unemployment or Transition
by Jackie Porter, Carte Wealth Management No one wants to hear the words “It’s over”- especially from their employer. For many people, the relationship they have with an employer will be the longest relationship they will have in their lives. According to the...
Will Increases to the Minimum Wage Drive the Push to Automation?
The Automation Journals #2 In the first entry to the Automation Journals last week, I discussed that the Brookfield Institute report, The Talented Mr. Robot: The impact of automation on Canada’s workforce in which they reported that 42% of Canadian jobs were at high...
The Automation Journals – Entry 1
On June 15, 2016, the Brookfield Institute released their report, The Talented Mr. Robot: The impact of automation on Canada’s workforce in which they reported that 42% of Canadian jobs were at high risk of being affected by automation in the next 10 to 20 years. ...
Income For Life
Recently, the Globe and Mail ran a story about someone I know who was, and still is a volunteer member of CARP, the Canadian Association of Retired Persons. I met Bill VanGorder, a current CARP board member living in Halifax, years ago while I was Vice President and...
The End of Employment?
In her prescient article “The End of Employment”, Liz Ryan foresaw a time when the nature of employment will change “not because full-time W-2 (the U.S. equivalent of a T-4) jobs will disappear from the landscape entirely, but because the used-to-be-central...
The New HAPPEN
In retooling the New HAPPEN organization, we are mindful that in recent years, we've seen an increase in the challenges facing members looking for meaningful, well-paying jobs that recognized the value of their experience. Facing this reality, we realized that HAPPEN...