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Yes, We’ve Noticed You

The scene: a conference centre near Toronto airport, formerly a Sears warehouse. The date: early November. The headlines: “1,100 local jobs lost at Chrysler.” The circumstances couldn’t have been more propitious for Workwest’s first Toronto-based career fair, a two-day event that saw two dozen Alberta employers go trolling for new staff from Canada’s largest city >

The Investigators

It takes a special kind of person to be a forensics expert. We talked to four of them – in fields ranging from accounting to medicine – to find out how they get to the bottom of life’s little mysteries >

Starting Over

The prospect of a mid-life career switch may seem daunting, but it can be a rewarding experience. And there are ways to ease the transition
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Networking Beats Out The Net

Despite the rising popularity of Internet-based job search services, networking remains the most-used strategy of successfully finding work, according to a survey by human resource company Drake Beam Morin (DBM).
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Jobs in Space

While most dot-com ventures have wiped out, career Web sites are still riding the wave to e-commerce success.
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A Day in the Life of the Oilpatch

Here’s a surefire way to encourage young people to pursue a career in the oil and gas industry: Tell them during a typical two-week shift, you drive between 5,000 and 7,000 kilometres.
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