Category Archives: Working with Students & Graduates

While the majority of college students feel prepared to move from high school to higher education, they are often less confident about making the next big transition, from college to the workplace. In separate 2015 studies from McGraw Hill Education, Gallup-Purdue and the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) current students and alumni provide …

A new study involving University of Guelph researchers shows unemployment rates for graduates with disabilities are twice as high than for those without disabilities. Graduates with disabilities also face a wage gap when they do find full time work, the study found. In the Canadian Review of Sociology study, U of G sociology and anthropology …

 Perhaps you’ve heard that millennials have become the largest generation in the workplace, surpassing gen X this year, according to Pew Research. To accommodate this new group of workers and leaders, employers have had to evolve their practices around productivity and engagement. On a larger scale, the number of young people in the workforce is …

Formal qualifications are valuable, but do not cover a lot of informal skills and attributes of value to employers. There is a lot more to working successfully than formal skills and qualifications. It is abundantly clear that almost without exception, employment growth is restricted to skilled occupations and as a consequence young people are spending …

For Catherine Nguyen-Cat, the struggle to find a job has been “mostly a confidence issue”. The University of Westminster graduate sent out more than 100 CVs to UK employers and has been called in for 16 interviews, including three group presentation exercises. Unfortunately, she said, she often was more reserved than other applicants and didn’t …

When Emzhei Chen moved into residence at the University of Waterloo about 10 years ago, she found the experience nerve-wracking. Her parents supported her, but her dad was a machinist who had never gone to university and her mom hadn’t finished high school, so they were as unfamiliar with universities as she was. She saw …