Career management involves purposeful planning, combined with active career development. It is the process of understanding yourself, identifying your career goals and your strategy and implementing them with regular review and monitoring. It is an activity that is done throughout your career from entry-level positions to senior phases. Although most of us have formal annual […]
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Who are the top CEOs in Canada?
Executives from Mackenzie Investments, Laurentian Bank and Marshalls took the top three spots in the Top CEOs 2021 Employees’ Choice from Glassdoor. The awards are based on the input of employees who provide anonymous feedback by completing a company review about their CEO’s leadership, along with insights into their job, work environment and employer over […]
Quebecor CEO eyes Freedom Mobile to expand outside Quebec
The head of Quebec telecom giant Quebecor Inc. is reiterating his desire to expand the company’s footprint outside its home province. In an interview Thursday, Quebecor President and Chief Executive Officer Pierre Karl Péladeau said his firm is ready to engage in talks with Rogers Communications Inc. if the company is compelled by regulators to […]
Canada’s Lion Electric to build a new plant in Illinois, creating 750 jobs
Canadian electric vehicle company Lion Electric on Friday said it had selected Illinois as the location for its new U.S. manufacturing plant, promising to invest at least $70 million and create about 750 jobs over the next three years. Lion, known for its electric yellow school buses, said it will build the 900,000 square foot […]
Is Canada in line to be the next Silicon Valley?
Chris Albinson is the incoming CEO of Communitech and a Silicon Valley venture capitalist Change can sneak up on you if you’re not paying attention. As a Canadian venture capitalist based in California for the past 20 years, I’ve kept a close eye on the tech scene back home – and the transformation during that […]
Canadian tech companies face U.S. hiring spree
Jack Newton has big plans for the next two years. His Burnaby, B.C., legal technology company Clio is generating enough business to add 250 staff to the 600-person work force by the end of the year, and in 2022, he hopes to be employing at least 1,000 people. But there’s some big obstacles standing in […]
What Canada’s All-Digital, Work-From-Anywhere Future Means For Business Leaders
The technology industry often talks about digital transformation as a journey. So after a year of disruption, the natural question for many Canadian business leaders is probably, “Where to next?” During the pandemic, we saw organizations across the country move into new channels—and in some cases new business models—with almost breathtaking speed. We watched our […]
Canada is finally reopening — let’s hope it’s for good this time
Much of Canada is on the verge of reopening again, with hard-hit provinces lifting lockdowns and mapping out a path to something vaguely resembling normal while trying desperately to avoid making the mistakes of the past. The latest advantage we have on our side is COVID-19 vaccines — the Get Out of Jail Free card will […]
Telling the Canadian Entrepreneurship Story
Can you give us a brief background of your entrepreneurship journey? In 1962, my father looked at a map of where a chartered accountant firm was needed and zeroed in on Vegreville, Alberta, which is an hour east of Edmonton. There were major highways there and it was a rural community. My parents left their families in Saskatchewan and moved […]
Canada’s Lion Electric to build a new plant in Illinois, creating 750 jobs
Canadian electric vehicle company Lion Electric on Friday said it had selected Illinois as the location for its new U.S. manufacturing plant, promising to invest at least $70 million and create about 750 jobs over the next three years. Lion, known for its electric yellow school buses, said it will build the 900,000 square foot […]