Posted on Thursday, October 12th, 2017
One key aspect of job hunting that you may hear pretty frequently is the concept of personal branding. Branding yourself can help you stand out to potential employers and make you super memorable to contacts in your network. We’ve written a complete guide on branding yourself as a student, which you can read here.
Branding yourself can be a difficult undertaking. It’s hard to take an objective look at yourself and figure out what facets you should feature in your personal brand. You may understand how to market your brand during your job search, but how do you figure out what your brand actually is?
Thankfully, there are some questions you can ask yourself to really dig deep into your personal brand. Below, we take an in-depth look at some of them, so you can get to work on branding yourself.
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Posted on Tuesday, October 10th, 2017
The Ontario government provides a Cooperative Education tax credit to businesses that hire students enrolled in a recognized Co-op Education program for 12-16 week work-terms. The majority of Algonquin College co-op work-terms qualify for this funding.
The Algonquin College co-op department automatically issues tax credit letters at the end of January each year; however we can accommodate special requests for early issue.
Posted on Tuesday, October 10th, 2017
The environment in which you do your co-op placement may be vastly different from the school environment. You may find yourself on a construction site, in a hotel, out in the field, or—in many cases—in an office.
The transition to an office environment can be jarring. You go from a school environment where your day is broken up between class, homework time, and free time, to a place where you sit at a desk for 7+ hours a day. That change can be rough on your health. To help you stay happy and healthy in your office, here are three tricks.
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Posted on Thursday, October 5th, 2017
We’ve all been there—there’s someone at work who, despite your best intentions, you just don’t like. The little things they do annoy you, the way they talk annoys you, the way they do their work annoys you. There’s nothing particularly awful about them, but you simply just don’t like them.
That’s natural—no one likes everyone. In your personal life, you can usually move away from people you don’t like, but in a professional environment you’re often forced to work with the person—whether on a project together, or even just in passing conversation in the office.
Learning how to manage difficult people is an important skill. Once you’re comfortable navigating these kinds of relationships, you’ll be in a position to better handle whatever kind of personalities the work environment throws at you.
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Posted on Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017
We’re getting into the busy part of the semester, when the list of midterms, projects, and assignments you have to do is starting to get pretty real. When this starts happening, it’s easy to get overwhelmed and lose track of what needs to get done.
This is why time management is so important. And while we’ve looked at the basics of time management on this blog before, there’s more to discuss.
So today, we look at three ways to master time management and conquer your to-do list.
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