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This is what we talked about on The Invisible Mentor Blog this week: Spider’s Revenge by Jennifer Estep, Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff and Interview with Employment and Career Counsellor Chris Kulbaba....
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Image via CrunchBase Recently, the Downtown Women’s Club hosted a teleseminar with Carol McManus, the LinkedIn Lady. McManus has made over six figures of her income from referrals she received on...
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Career Coach Peggy McKee from Career Confidential presented at the webinar, “How to Find a Job in any Economy.” The following job search tips were gleaned from her presentation with some of my own...
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View ArticleWhat’s the Meaning of Serendipity, and can you Plan it?
Thor Muller certainly thinks that you can plan serendipity! Thor Muller, CTO and co-founder of the firm Get Satisfaction recently gave a talk, The Practice Planned Serendipity as part of the Unfinished...
View ArticleAdventures in Learning: DIY Mentoring Program
In the recent mentoring survey by the social network LinkedIn, a large percent of women reported that the reason they didn’t have a mentor was because no one had asked them. This is the first in a...
View ArticleAdventures in Learning: DIY Mentoring Program, Episode Two
This is a series of posts on how to create your own mentoring program. In the first installment, we looked at how to determine your mentoring needs, and in this episode we will take a look at a variety...
View ArticleAdventures in Learning: DIY Mentoring Program, Episode Three
This is a series of posts on how to create your own personalized mentoring program. In the first instalment, we looked at how to determine your mentoring needs, and in the second we looked at a variety...
View ArticleCreate Your Board of Mentors – January is National Mentoring Month
For National Mentoring Month, consider creating your Personal Board of Mentors. Having one mentor is seldom ever enough these days, because no one person can assist you with all your mentoring needs....
View ArticleBooked for Mentoring – Book Review: Read This Before Our Next Meeting by Al...
While I was in my degree program at Haskayne School of Business, the University of Calgary, we had to watch a film, Meetings, Bloody Meetings, starring John Cleese, and that stuck with me. I was...
View ArticleHow to Write Meta-Descriptions, Summaries and Abstracts
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View ArticleBetter Note-Taking: Learning to Abbreviate Words
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View ArticleGetting Corporate Sponsorships
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View ArticleThe Power of Journaling: Capturing Your Thoughts and Ideas
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View ArticleSpotting Patterns: Getting the Most from Reading Books
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View ArticleHow to Interview: What I Learned after 20 Years of Interviewing People
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View ArticleThe Wright Brothers and Mastering the Fundamentals
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View ArticleSpeed Reading: Collection of Articles to Help You Read Faster
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