Posted on Thursday, September 21st, 2017
One of the most obvious stereotypes of students is the financial struggle: surviving on ramen, counting out pennies (or, nowadays, nickels) for laundry, picking up whatever extra shifts come along. And it is true that your time spent in school can be among the most frugal times of your life.
But there are ways to mitigate the struggle. Bursaries, scholarships, and government programs like OSAP are designed to help you get through the lean years of school. And there are steps that you can take, as well.
Below, we look at three ways to start managing your finances as a student.
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Posted on Tuesday, September 19th, 2017
We’ve already written about the importance of managing your online reputation. The internet has become a key part of any job hunt, and employers do google potential employees. Making sure that your online profiles reflect you in a professional way is super important.
If you’ve read the article above, then you already have a head start on tidying up your online presence. You’ve googled yourself, untagged all those awkward Facebook photos, and built a stellar LinkedIn.
But how do you maintain a professional online presence? Today, we show you how.
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Posted on Thursday, September 14th, 2017
You probably know the feeling well: you have a few important projects that need to get done for work, your homework from school is piling up, and you’d like to maybe try to have a social life at some point. Everything must get done, and even though you feel like you’re working hard, you never seem to get ahead.
Lucky for you, there’s a solution. It’s time to learn to work efficiently.
Working efficiently means optimizing the way you work to finish your projects and save time. Learning how to do it takes time, but as you get familiar with your own work patterns you’ll start to see your efficiency changing.
There are some key ways to start that process. Below, we look at three of them.
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Posted on Tuesday, September 12th, 2017
It’s pretty crazy to start thinking about next summer already, but we just opened applications for the summer 2018 co-op term! Applications are open from now until September 17th.
That means it’s time for you to decide whether you want to do a co-op. It also means it’s time for us to tell you all the reasons why doing co-op is the best possible decision you could make for your future career.
Here are three big reasons why you should definitely apply to co-op for 2018.
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Posted on Thursday, September 7th, 2017
With fall coming and a new school year starting, now is a great time to revisit the basics of a successful job or placement hunt. Love it or hate it, job hunting is a necessary part of life. The skills that you learn while looking for a co-op placement will come up time and time again throughout your professional career.
Today, we look at the basics of this process, from start to finish. We’ve also included a lot of links to previous articles we published, all of which go into further detail about the job hunt. As always, if you have any other questions for us, you can contact our office and we’ll help you out.
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