According to the stars of Duplicity, Julia Roberts and Clive Owen, each of them would make terrible undercover operatives. Roberts confessed, "I think I'd be a bad spy. I'm just too stupid." Taken in context, the box office magician meant that she would have a hard time remembering her... ...read fu...

From 3 PM to 5 PM on March 14 (Saturday), I'll be giving a talk at the Toronto College of Technology to a group of approximately 80 newcomers to Canada and people re-entering the IT field. With that in mind, I proposed the following talk: Make a Name for Yourself: Creating Opportunities in Diff...

Well, "punk" in the way that Avril Lavigne fits into that category. Kristen Stewart posed for the cover of the Mexican version of Nylon magazine in all her lip-sneering, leather-jacketed glory. The young actress has a busy couple of years ahead of her. In the eight weeks between shooting... ...read ...

Yahoo suggests five key questions you'll want answered before you take a job as follows: What makes employees join this company and stay here? How are people treated here? What are the unspoken rules? What happens when people make mistakes? What is a typical week like? In other words, you're trying ...

How do you stay optimistic when you are surrounded by a steady drumbeat of troubling news? It's not an easy task these days, especially when you're worried about holding on to your job or your home. Yet, it is precisely during times like these that must be proactive about managing our emotio...

Keeping the Recession from Leading to Personal Depression Maybe you’ve been laid off recently. Maybe, like me, you’ve been looking for a long time now. But whether you’re dealing with the fresh kick in the gut of a recently-lost job or the long and winding grind of an extended job ...

My clients often tell me that they waste too much time at work. There seems to be a common belief among ADDers that they spend too much time screwing around, while everyone else focuses intently and works productively all day long. I've always asserted that this simply isn't true! Everyone slacks of...

My seven-year-old son started playing in our town’s youth basketball league this year. I’m one of his coaches. Now, as any truthful observer of this kind of squad will admit, playing is a loose term. As the kids do their best to pass (we have a three-pass minimum), shoot and defend, ther...

Given the economic downturn, job seekers are smart to look at areas of opportunity likely to grow even in an ongoing downturn. Naturally, many have turned their attention to clean tech, where investment should only continue thanks to the stimulus package and global efforts to address climate change....

My MBA experience has completely shifted this term.  My priorities have changed and my outlook is not the same as it was.  Last term work was my priority and I felt that the MBA was just very time-consuming.  I went home to Boston for 3 weeks over Christmas and I couldn’t bear to...