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How to get retrained

by | Feb 2, 2009 | Tips & Advice

Thanks to a Twitter (see today's Financial Post article on how Twitter works at No one's getting rich from Twitters on page FP10) from coach Paul Copcutt here's a link to another article. This one is on retraining published in Saturday's Globe and Mail. It's called...

Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.

by | Jan 30, 2009 | Tips & Advice

Way back when, a TV preacher used this phrase to promote one of his books and the phrase does stand the test of time. Sure it's discouraging to go through job loss. It doesn't help when it comes in the middle of a global economic recession. But that doesn't mean there...

HAPPEN member shares the joy

by | Jan 29, 2009 | Tips & Advice

HAPPEN members are finding new employment every week. Here's an email we received today:   Fellow HAPPENites: How unbelievable these words still sound, but they are true. I have accepted a position. This has been a drama with twists and turns and only the intervention...

Help for the unemployed

by | Jan 28, 2009 | Tips & Advice

There's lots of reading in today's daily newspapers about the new federal budget. In today's Financial Post there's an article of special interest to those of us who are unemployed right now. Called Government moves to help unemployed it has details about the...

How about a government job?

by | Jan 28, 2009 | Tips & Advice

That's the thought behind an article in today's Financial Post. Called Work in government a click away, the story says that with one in three employees expected to retire by 2015 there's going to be an abundance of unfilled positions. Let's see: 2015 is just six years...