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Three Ways to Update Your Portfolio

The portfolio is a key part of your job hunt toolkit. It’s a way of showing employers what kind of work you do and the accomplishments you’ve made. We’ve written a guide to building your first portfolio here. The main takeaways from that article? Think about your audience, think about the work you want to be doing, and make it look good.

But a portfolio is not a static item, and like all your job search materials, you should update it regularly. How do you bring your portfolio up-to-date and make it extra shiny for employers? Read on!

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Three Reasons Kinaxis is the Winner of the Best Ottawa Business Award for Best Performance Co-op

Last night at the Best Ottawa Business Awards, four post-secondary co-op departments in Ottawa were thrilled to name Kinaxis for Best Performance Co-op, sponsored by the Algonquin College School of Business. The Algonquin College Co-op Department with our friends at Carleton University, the University of Ottawa, and La Cité chose Kinaxis in gratitude for all they’ve done for co-op students.

As an Ottawa-based supply chain management company, Kinaxis employs co-op students from all four post-secondary institutions. Kinaxis gives students awesome experience in a variety of roles. This year alone, they’ve hired dozens of students to work on various projects in the organization.

Here are three reasons we chose Kinaxis for Best Performance Co-op.


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Survival Skills: Three Ways to Survive a Networking Event

Ah, networking. It’s a key aspect of any job hunt, and often a necessary part of professional life. And while there are varying methods of networking, ranging from grabbing a coffee to speed dating (yes, really), one of the most accessible methods remains traditional networking events.

There are pros and cons to networking events. The pros are that they happen frequently in every industry, and are often full of people that you’ll want to talk to. The cons are that they are full of people, and making meaningful connections in that environment can be both difficult and intimidating.

Luckily, there are some ways of mitigating these cons. Here are three survival skills for successfully navigating a network event.

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Why Co-op Is So Awesome For Students

If you’re thinking about taking a co-op course, you probably have some questions. Most importantly, you probably want to know what benefits co-op can have for you. Why should you take it? What is there to gain?

We have the answers to those questions. For students, co-op is awesome. There are lots of real-world, practical reasons why doing a co-op term can have a great impact on your career. You likely came to school to set yourself up for a good job after graduation; co-op is your ticket to that.

Take a look at these benefits.

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Three Ways to Find a Job (Without Using an Online Job Board)

In the past decade or so, the landscape of a job search has changed dramatically. We’ve gone from traditional door-to-door job searches to internet searches; real-life boards with jobs printed out and posted to digital job boards with hundreds of jobs listed. And while the internet has helped the job seeker in so many ways—hello, LinkedIn—it’s also created a challenge: in the digital world, how do you stand out from all the other applicants out there?

One way of doing so is to go back to basics. There’s nothing wrong with electronic job boards, but it is really hard to stand out to employers when you use them. Knowing how to job search without using a job board is a useful skill, and so today we’re going to talk about three alternatives to use in your job search.

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