Over the last few months we have conducted several focus group sessions with faculty and directors of University Teaching and Learning Centres (TLCs) to gain insight into the special needs…
Talent Marketing for the Nursing Profession
I find it interesting as we at Acadiate dig deeper into particular career fields and professions, that the general principles and best practices we recommend are reaffirmed across all of…
Benchmarking Student Career Development
In our discussions with university program leadership we have found a great deal of interest in getting more involved in their student’s career development. Career development has traditionally not…
The worst advice a parent may give their child in University is ‘just focus on your studies’
Last month we were invited to introduce Acadiate’s student professionalism platform to 600 first-year students at the University of Toronto. In the first half of our presentation, we talked about…
5 mistakes most university students and graduates make in their job search
We’ve had thousands of interactions with university students, unemployed graduates, successfully employed graduates, top recruiters, and career development professionals. Our conversations across these different groups have given us a unique…
The University Degree: Essential? Yes. A Core Differentiator for Recruiters? Not so much.
It’s hard to believe that it has already been 30 years since I graduated with my MBA and went out into the real world for my first graduate job search….
Are universities’ economics departments getting left behind?
Louis-Philippe Rochon is a professor of economics at Laurentian University and co-editor, Review of Keynesian Economics. Guillaume Vallet is associate professor of economics, Université Grenoble Alpes, and associate researcher…
UBC takes lead in rethinking doctoral education
“Exciting. Thrilling. Vibrant.” That’s how UBC PhD student Andrew Pilliar describes what it feels like (or could feel like) doing PhD research. Contrary to what Aly Kamadia describes in…
New Survey Says Only a Third of College Students Feel Prepared for Job Market and Workplace
Overall, only about a third of college students feel prepared that they’ll graduate with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in the job market and in the…
Business student’s biggest sales job was himself
When Ryan Ing graduates from business school next spring, he starts his dream job at IBM Canada selling its products and services to business customers. But the 24-year-old is…