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Tag Archives: employment
Women, confidence, and salary negotiations
Salary negotiations, what’s that? A headline in Toronto’s Globe and Mail the other day reminded me of my own history in salary negotiations: What Young Women Need to Know About Salary Negotiations. On the very same morning that I … Continue reading
Posted in Women
Tagged confidence, employment, salary levels, salary negotiation, self-confidence, women
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Embracing those 20 bonus years? How about 50 bonus years?!
Pretty well exactly a year ago (seems like a lifetime ago), I wrote a blog post called “Embracing those twenty bonus years“. I’ve borrowed the same cartoon for this post because its message seems to say it all; at some … Continue reading
Posted in Just wondering, Odds and Ends
Tagged ageless, aging, Andrew Steele, biogerentology, David Sinclair, employment, health, humor, humour, lifespan, Methuselah, Retirement
57 Comments
Social Justice Saturday: Inequality and COVID-19
Social Justice Saturday time. Time to shine a light on another social issue that has become all too exposed by the devastation brought on by COVID. Every country is having to acknowledge the gross disparity in the percentage of COVID … Continue reading
Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: one man’s efforts to make a difference
For readers who are not familiar with Canada, in 2015 the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), established by the federal government, completed 6 years of an extensive and gut-wrenching inquiry into the impact of 120 years of the residential school … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Business, Good for you, good for business, Leadership
Tagged business, Canada, compassion, employment, entrepreneurs, history, indigenous people, inspiration, IT, Keith McIntosh, leaders, making a difference, New Brunswick, passion, PLATO Testing, PQA Testing, residential schools, training, TRC, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, vision
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Labour Day reflections (aka Labor Day in the U.S.)
Labour Day. The last weekend of summer. In most parts of North America, the Labour Day Weekend marks the “real” end of summer and the return to life’s routine (not to mention Labour Day sales). Let’s call it the end … Continue reading
Posted in Odds and Ends
Tagged back to school, employment, end of summer, global economy, Labor Day, labor movement, Labour Day, multinationals, school, unemployment, work
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