To celebrate National Teacher Appreciation Day, we’re recognizing some of our best mentors teaching Career Edge interns. Some are Career Edge alumni, some coach multiple interns, many received multiple nominations for our Mentor of the Year 2018 award, and all have been immensely valuable for their intern’s professional development. Here’s what their interns had to say: Read More
With leaders and influencers from Canada’s business community, award-winning employers, and government in attendance, philanthropist and keynote speaker Michael “Pinball” Clemons expectedly delivered an impassioned speech on empowering youth through education.
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“The process went by pretty quickly. It felt meant to be.” Read More
Showered with study sessions at the library, only to write exams resembling nothing like what your professors suggested, while distracted by other students coughing in the test centre?
Spent late nights and early mornings writing essays, surviving on coffee and energy drinks, while trying to remember everything you crammed in the last four months in a few hours?
Are you a recent graduate? Read More
If you’d like to go to work every day knowing you’re serving Ontarians and making Ontario the best province to live in the world, this opportunity is for you!
That’s how Chidinma Unigwe felt – and now, she can’t think of a better way to give back. Read More
It’s the return of the Career Edge Achievement Awards! Only one week away, the 2018 edition promises to be the grandest, most extravagant evening of all Career Edge celebrations. Read More
“You’re more important than you think.”
That’s what a paid internship at LifeSpeak taught Tahmina Naznen.
Immigrating from Bangladesh, Tahmina arrived in Canada with a master’s in computer science and four years of experience. For six months, she struggled to secure permanent, meaningful work, losing confidence. Read More
As a trailblazer for her internship employer, we felt it was right for Natalie Goldring’s story to be featured as our first ‘Where Are They Now’ piece, as a teaser for our upcoming Alumni Newsletter. Subscribe to read more of these stories!
Back in 2006, as Investors Group’s first-ever recruiting coordinator, Natalie Goldring developed the position – and her career – from scratch. Read More
Aspiring stars travelling for auditions, delivering their best performances to impress casting directors, with dreams of launching a successful career in their trained art – it’s not just Hollywood, it’s National Internship Awareness Month.
Like the preceding, annual Academy Awards, National Internship Awareness Month recognizes and celebrates the benefits of auditions, reaped by both its employers and jobseekers. For the second year, NIAM aims to dispel myths surrounding internships to shine light on how unknowns can become stars. And because many casting directors have misconceptions about hosting auditions, NIAM also attempts to generate buzz on how they, through offering temporary tryouts, can find the right talent to produce a Best Picture nomination. Read More