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Podcasts are an excellent way to fit in some career development while on the go. CareerWise by Ceric brings you this great list of podcasts on all things career-related for career practitioners, job seekers, students, and working professionals.

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24 New Podcasts on Career and the Workplace

Looking to fit in some professional development on the go? There are numerous podcasts – for career practitioners, jobseekers, students and working professionals – exploring job search, careers research, equity in the workplace, unconventional career pathways and much more.

For more work-related podcasts, check out these past CareerWise roundups:

• 20 podcasts on all things work and career
• Get your career development learning on the go with these 6 podcasts
• 5 podcasts to help kids start learning about careers

Adventures in Careerland

This weekly podcast, hosted by career educator Adriano Magnifico, features students who share life-changing experiences and decisions that affected their career paths, professional networks and personal character. These stories will inspire students, teachers and anyone who wants to learn more about how youth navigate their life and career paths.

Behind the Science of Career Development

This podcast features the authors of Asia Pacific Career Development Journal articles, providing a glimpse of the work that went into creating the articles. The first podcast episode explored the “Transgender Workplace Experience,” highlighting the adaptability, flexibility and resiliency of transgender individuals.

Career Buzz (CareerCycles)

Career Buzz is hosted by Mark Franklin with co-hosts Stephen Armstrong, Nicole Hamilton and Shellie Deloyer. It features extraordinary career stories of ordinary people, and insights from thought leaders including Dragon’s Den star Arlene Dickinson, Canada’s career guru Barbara Moses, and career specialists Norm Amundson and John Krumboltz.

Career Carrots

Co-hosted by career strategist Rob Kim and University of British Columbia student Vivian Li, this podcast shares unique stories, experiences and advice to help students and young professionals with their careers.

Career-ing (Waterloo Careers)

Amisha Kaur, former CCA co-op student, speaks to students and alumni about their experiences navigating grad school. Episodes include “Finding Teaching Opportunities,” “Creating Connections for Your Future Career” and “Networking and Unconventional Pathways.”

Career Podcast with Audrey Prenzel

Audrey Prenzel shares her 20+ years of expertise with military-to-civilian career transition and best practices for police and fire career management. Prenzel is the author of Military to Civvie Street. The Complete Job Transition Guide for those Leaving the RCAF, Army, & RCN.

Coffee with Kim

In this live-broadcast podcast, host Kim Kaupe brings listeners along to her coffee meetings with successful CEOs, celebrities and influential individuals. Interviews cover everything from business and entrepreneurship to career and mindset.

Connect 4 Community (NSCDA)

Connect4Community is a journey into the experiences and perspectives of some of the influential minds in Nova Scotia. Listen in for candid interviews from individuals belonging to marginalized groups and those who work to improve their experiences.

Digging in with ONN (Ontario Nonprofit Network)

Digging in with ONN is a podcast that focuses on the issues that matter to the non-profit sector in Ontario. The first podcast series supports ONN’s efforts to advance decent work and uses an intersectional lens that centres on truth and reconciliation, racial justice and equity practices.

Find Your Dream Job: Insider Tips for Finding Work, Advancing your Career, and Loving Your Job

Every week, Mac Prichard and expert guests share insider secrets and job search tips on how to get a great job and develop a purposeful career. Join for job search inspiration, empathy and actionable advice.

FoodGrads Podcast

The FoodGrads podcast takes you on a fascinating journey into the hearts and minds of the amazing people who work in the food, beverage and hospitality industries. From food scientists to farmers, chefs to dietitians, R&D to sales, FoodGrads shares insights from professionals at all stages in their careers.

Get a Job! A Podcast by Vancouver WorkBC

“Get a Job!” is a local podcast for anyone looking for work in Vancouver. Presented by the Vancouver WorkBC Centres, it covers who’s hiring locally, what’s going on in the job market, and conversations with employment specialists and special guests about how to maximize your chances at finding and sustaining work in the Lower Mainland.

HBS Managing the Future of Work (Harvard Business School)

How will firms cope with the changes ahead and what steps do they need to take today? Each episode features faculty from the world’s leading business school interviewing CEOs, technologists and experts on the bleeding edge discussing how to survive and thrive by managing the future of work.

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

LinkedIn’s Jessi Hempel explores the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us. What does work mean to us? Should we love what we do? Join Jessi as she talks with guests such as Reid Hoffman and Roxane Gay to unearth lessons that apply to our own careers.

Hidden Talent (Challenge Factory)

The Hidden Talent podcast showcases the voices of small business owners and military veterans as they discuss their own employment struggles and successes, from both sides of the interview table. These short, bingeable episodes are designed for everyone looking for their next hire.

Journal of Career Assessment Podcast

This podcast features contributors to the Journal of Career Assessment, which covers the various techniques, tests, inventories, rating scales, interview schedules, surveys and direct observational methods used in scientifically based practice to provide an improved understanding of career decision-making.

Leaderful (The Ally Co.)

Leaderful explores human-centred, systems-conscious approaches to leadership and building high-functioning teams. It focuses on the core problems of burnout, disconnection, conflict, misuses of power, unethical leadership and stuckness on teams and within organizations.

Leaderhood & Parentship (CultureSmith Inc)

CultureSmith Inc provides workplace emotional intelligence (EQ) and leadership training. On each episode, Leaderhood & Parentship dives into the most recent and relevant issues facing leaders based on the hundreds of executive coaching calls CultureSmith facilitates each month.

The Career Confidante

Join career and leadership development expert Marie Zimenoff as she invites you to learn what you need to know today for tomorrow’s career success. She shares the inside scoop on hiring trends, explains how to earn a promotion and explores what hiring managers are saying across a variety of industries.

The ClariTEA Podcast (Living Corporate Network)

The ClariTEA Podcast offers insights to help you transition your career as well as raw, unfiltered conversations about equity and access in corporate America.

The Dream Job System Podcast

Austin Belcak brings you quick, highly actionable strategies to help you land a job you love without “traditional” experience and without applying online. These tactics stem from Belcak’s personal experience landing interviews and his experience helping thousands of jobseekers get hired.

The Unleading Podcast (York University)

Seemingly neutral and apolitical approaches to leadership have not addressed the ​longstanding inequities and challenges in Ontario’s public education system. In this context, questions arise related to the type of leadership required to facilitate this work, how leaders are selected and prepared to lead, and how we might continue to develop models of leadership that challenge the status quo.

Twice As Hard

Twice As Hard is an exploration of Black identity in the working world and a blueprint for success. Listeners will learn what obstacles limit opportunity for Black professional progress, how to understand and overcome racial stereotypes, be productive, find purpose and ultimately thrive in business.

Unpacked Podcast (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)

This podcast unpacks some of the most complicated issues in Canadian news and current affairs. Recent episodes from host Stephen Hurley and guests cover “The Care Economy and What’s at Stake” and “Taking the temperature on workers’ rights, labour and organizing.”

LINDSAY PURCHASE

 

Lindsay Purchase oversees CERIC’s tri-annual magazine, Careering, and the CareerWise website, along with the CareerWise Weekly newsletter. She has a background in journalism, having worked previously as a digital editor and reporter. Lindsay is a graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University’s Global Studies program.

At The Skills Centre we often worry how the holidays impact our Clients. 

At Christmas time the picture of perfection is thrown at us from all angles. It can appear that everyone is having a magical time, with their picture-perfect families, making magic Christmas memories. This can be in stark contrast to what we are feeling. But the reality is that many people find this season stressful. So often the picture-perfect image is just an illusion and there’s a lot going on underneath the surface that we just don’t share about ourselves or see in others. We love the Psychology Mom’s picture below that illustrates some of the thoughts that we fill our heads and hearts with.   

The trick is to STOP… and FEEL. 

Make room for this time of year to be reflective, and truthful. Honor where you are and not the “Hallmark” version of society’s idea of where we should be…

Merry Christmas to each and every one of you, and may the simplest joy’s of the holiday fill your heart~ 

From the Board and Staff of The Princeton & District Community Skills Centre

The one-time top-up to the Canada Housing Benefit aims to help
lower-income renters who are struggling with the cost of rent.

Who can apply:

You may be eligible for a one-time payment of $500 if:
• you have filed a 2021 tax return
• you are at least 15 years of age on December 1, 2022
• you have an adjusted family net income of $20,000
or less (individuals) or $35,000 or less (families)
• you are a resident of Canada for tax purposes in 2022
• your principal residence is located in Canada
• you paid rent for your own principal residence in Canada in 2022
• you paid at least 30% of your 2021 adjusted family net income
on rent in 2022

How to apply:

To learn more, visit
canada.ca/one-time-housing-benefit

Apply through CRA My Account. To get your payment faster,
register for direct deposit in CRA My Account.
An online web form is available if you are unable to sign in to
or register for a CRA My Account. Applicants who are unable
to apply online can call the CRA at 1-800-282-8079.
Applications close on March 31, 2023.

Where ever you are in life, and your Career we hope that the Rubber Band Theory of Life can add value to the discomfort you may be feeling.

At The Princeton Skills Centre, we specialize in this stretch theory and encourage discomfort.  We embrace the personal and professional challenges in life as well as our clients, employers, and community.  We notice that those who are flat and stagnant are often the ones who have been passed on for a promotion, a job or a wild opportunity for adventure.  This comfort is somewhat predictable after a wild weather event and Pandemic, although the time to bounce back is well, NOW!  Be mindful of the many humans who have had incredible challenges as well, and be inspired at their ability to bounce back and put thick rubber in the band.   

Our friends at SayMag have a few more tips on this below:  

by Art Alexander, Certified John Maxwell, Speaker, Trainer and Coach

The Law of the Rubber Band states that your personal and professional growth stops when you lose the tension between where you are and where you could be.

If you were asked, “Do you want to grow in your personal and professional life?” I’m sure you would answer with a resounding “yes!” It’s been said, true life begins at the end of our comfort zone, and we arrive there by stretching.

In the Law of the Rubber Band we are reminded that rubber bands are ONLY useful when they are stretched. You would not be where you are or who you are today without some form of tension or stretching taking place. Let’s use the  analogy of the rubber band for all it was meant to be and consider together these seven statements that will challenge each of us to evaluate how much we are willing to stretch in order to develop in our personal and professional lives.

1) Few people ever want to be stretched Most people use only a fraction of their ability, and rarely, if ever, try to reach their full potential. When was the last time you learned something new for the first time?

2) Stop settling for the status quo Most people are satisfied to settle into their comfort zone of familiar patterns and habits. It takes real courage to push yourself outside of your comfort zone. Remember, no one remembers average people.

3) Stretching is an inside job The real process of growth begins with your thoughts. Those thoughts then become words and the words become actions. Philosophical writer James Allen said, “You cannot travel within and stand still without.” This inside job is an internal measurement that allows you to evaluate where you are against what you are capable of.

4) Stretching always requires change You can’t improve and avoid change at the same time! We must stop looking over our shoulders at what was and start focusing on what is. To quote George Eliot, “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” If you are still satisfied with what you did five years ago, then you are not growing.

5) Stretching sets you apart from others Have you noticed that people seem to have become satisfied with mediocrity?  As you stretch and get better you will be able to affect and infect others who will follow your lead, and everyone will become better as a result.

6) Stretching can become a lifestyle When you stop stretching, you stop growing. Make stretching yourself part of your daily routine; you will be glad you did.

7) Stretching gives you a shot at significance. You see, if you are going to grow yourself you must first know yourself. What is the gap between good and great? Could it be that your ability to close that gap is directly related to your willingness to be stretched?

The bottom line on the Law of the Rubber Band is … are you always looking for a better way to do what you already do? If you are, then you need to know ahead of time that it will stretch you out of your comfort zone and propel you into your desired future.

As you deal with your day-to-day situations, whether in business or personal life, you will be dealt several opportunities that you can stretch into. How you choose to deal with those determines how you positively (or negatively) impact your current circumstances, your life, and how you influence those around you.

Remember, If you or someone you know is experiencing this in their Professional Career, encourage them and if they are open to support, send them our way. 

Have a wonderful weekend Princeton:-)

Warmly,

Leah & The Princeton Skills Centre Team

Yes JJ!! We are so inspired by you and want to remind folks that sometimes we need to fill our hearts and minds with inspiring stories of fierce commitment, determination and drive! Kudos Bright heart we thank you!

Remember:  She’s in you and accessible at any time ~ Keep inspired, bright and fierce, Princeton & Area!