Archive for July 2020

Somewhere along the way, I made a choice not to point out the racist phrases addressed to me. I grew up and did my medical training in Canada, I love my job and I feel Canadian to my core. I’ve practised family medicine as a Mauritian-Canadian physician for 20 years. I’ve worked in three provinces,…

You need a new job and you want it to be as painless as possible. So you’re wondering… “Should I use a #recruiter in my #jobsearch?” The answer is “it depends.” I’m going to show you how to decide for yourself if you should use a recruiter. First things first… we need to separate the…

So, you’ve got the #job? Congratulations! Starting a new job in general is a nerve-wracking time as you are about to begin a new chapter in your life. You’ll be exposed to new people, environments, daily activities etc. But now with a #pandemic happening and you starting your new job from the comfort of your…

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to YOU (and you’re welcome for that earworm now). Every woman wants to be respected and admired at work, but often we are afraid of being perceived as too aggressive or too confident in our pursuit of greatness. While you can’t control other people’s opinions of you, you can control your own actions and…

Are you wondering whether your #workforce could become more productive? It’s time to examine the key factors, like company culture and interpersonal relationships, that influence an employee’s ability to maintain #peakperformance. Any employee concerns naturally affect productivity, from interpersonal challenges to the availability of training. Any issues that cause #stress for employees can affect their…

“Superstar” employees. Managers want to hire them, and the rest of us, on some level, probably hope to be seen as one. But sometimes, exceptional #employees do more harm than good. Top performers who tend to earn this “superstar” accolade are described as “certain employees (who) stand out above the rest,” according to Sara Pollack, a…

#Jobsearching is a lot like being an entrepreneur. There are tons of shiny objects, it’s easy to get distracted, and it’s challenging to know which activity will yield the highest ROI. I am often asked, “What is the most effective way to structure my job search activities?” One thing is for sure.  If 80% of jobs…

For years, Canadians have survived with a patchwork system of aid to feed the #hungry – a sprawling, informal network of some 60,000 charitable groups offering sustenance. Then came COVID-19, which ruthlessly exposed the precarity of this existing system. It shuttered #schools, #churches, #domesticviolence shelters, summer camps and other institutions of civil society that had…

Is job transformation the same thing as #jobloss? One hopes not, or many Canadian workers may find themselves looking for work sooner rather than later. Right now, we are dealing with job loss caused by an unprecedented need to shut down the #economy to avoid spreading the #coronavirus. Beyond the pandemic, however, the bigger story…

The notion of the glass ceiling – an invisible but systemic barrier that prevents #women from rising to the top of organizations – has been supplemented in recent years by the idea of a broken rung much lower down in the organizational hierarchy. It highlights the inability of women to take the first step up…