Career Buzz – Détails, épisodes et analyse

On this episode of Career Buzz, Stephen Armstrong is joined by Tylaine Duggan to talk about "Working with and inspiring Youth in the 21st Century".  

There are a lot of things that fill us with hope for the future: Technology, science, ethical and accountable leaders, nonprofits, and even mission-driven corporations committed to doing good. But there are few things that give us more hope for the future than young people. In the age of information warfare and AI technology, young people come face-to-face daily with problems not of their own making: natural, and man-made disasters, injustices, student loan debt, mental health stigma, corrupt leaders and corporations, and endless social change.  So how do we help youth steer this global complexity to make the world a better place?

Tylaine Duggan Bio - a natural entrepreneur has dedicated her core career to advancing youth and community.  She has combined her extensive experience in business and management, to make a positive impact on the world via youth. Her philosophy of viewing challenges as opportunities and her belief in the power of imagination and enthusiasm are truly inspiring. Ms. Duggan has achieved numerous milestones, and accolades including being the recipient of; Canadian Profit Magazine “Top 100 Corporations” as Co-Founder & CEO of ISDN.  She has also received various International Women’s Achievements Awards. Her organization has received the personal endorsement of various prime minister’s of Canada and premier’s of Ontario.  

With all the buzz around AI, what can it do for us, practically, to help in career management, and job search?

To help us dig into this topic, Mark Franklin Practice Leader of CareerCycles and host of Career Buzz, is joined by two career professionals: Erica Mattison and Jim Woodbridge. The panel is also joined by FutureFitAI's Head of Growth, Priya Ramanathan (at 44 mins 55 secs).

Who You Are Matters! How do you get to know who you are? Guests Mark Franklin, host of Career Buzz and Rich Feller created a tool that helps do that and are here to tell you all about it. Do you need a plan when it’s time to look for a new role? Debra Boggs stresses the value of having a Job Search Strategy. Join Hoda and her guests in their journey to increase Career Literacy.

Guest links:

Mark Franklin - https://onelifetools.com/pages/conversations-matter

Rich Feller - https://richfeller.com

Debra Boggs - https://www.dscareermanagement.com/about

Listen in this week as Mark Franklin connects with Mike and Michael. 

Mike Kirsh works in the advertising world as a producer & production manager making commercial video content for TV and web.  As a producer he gets to work closely with directors and marketing agencies, building budgets to help bring creative ideas to life.  Mike loves producing music, doing improv, and writing and acting in his own comedy sketches.

Michael Tobin is a director, writer, editor, and producer. In his work, he explores themes of morality, consciousness, and agency. He evangelizes the notion that comedy and tragedy are not mutually exclusive. Michael balances working on his original projects by freelancing for corporate clients. And: He loves bagels.

You’ve finished film school, now what? Film and TV is a tough business with lots of uncertainty, but those who win, win big. How do you manage your film and TV career for the future? 

Ask Carole Kirschner @CaroleKirsch. She’s entertainment career coach based in Los Angeles. She is also program director for Writers Guild of America showrunner training program, as well as program director for CBS diversity writers program.

Martina Rowley @Martinarowleyco is an online business manager (OBM) and Certified Canadian Virtual Assistant (CCVA). Whichever task you want done and done well, she's on it! You can benefit from her solid European work experience, university education from the UK and Canada and her bilingualism. 

Despite suffering through her first “boss from hell”, her parents convinced Martina to stick with it. As a result, she adopted some valuable lessons: always to produce error-free work, maintain impeccable telephone manners and client service and have an untouchable work ethic. The latter can also be credited to both her late parents.

Along with her "get it done" attitude, she is well-spoken and very personable with an inquisitive mind, allowing her to easily integrate into any existing team. She is a published writer and blogger, a firm and creative facilitator and is very active in local community and environmental volunteering. 

Today on the show, at age 66, David Sorenson started his encore career by completing a masters degree in counselling. Now, after career 1 as an ordained chaplain, and career 2 as a counsellor, David shares his journey and transition toward balancing life, work and calling. Hear David Sorensen’s retirement reboot in the 2nd half of today’s show.

But First…. Canada is a resource-rich country, and mining is a leading industry. But how can we do resource extraction ethically? Marilyn Spink’s career revolves around Sustainable Minerals & Improved Corporate Governance. She’s an Award-Winning Professional Engineer & Board Director, consultant, advisor and Principal at GS group.

This is a repost of an interview Mark Franklin did with Adam Hare back in May of 2018.

How do you leave the allure of the music business and land in… an insurance office?

Just ask Adam Hare. 

For the past decade, Adam has devoted his life to being a passionate, creative leader who can think outside of the box. His professional career spans from a young entrepreneur, developing his own clothing line, to later managing a creative team for the Worlds leading entertainment company at Universal Music Canada. More recently Adam now makes waves, yes, in the insurance industry. He launched an award-winning, online brokerage called Insurance Jack. 

While maintaining a busy work life he actively involves himself and gives back to the local business community. He sits on the Board of Directors for the Insurance Brokers Association of Durham Region, and the Program Advisory Committee through Durham College. He is the current Chair for the Young Entrepreneurs & Professionals Committee at the Whitby Chamber, and has recently joined the Lakeridge Health's Young Professional Committee, Launchpad.

In 4 years, Adam transformed a traditional business model into an established, online player and was awarded Young Broker of the Year. 

Adam shares stories of changing 100 years of history – in a family business. Adam Hare speaks at Imagine Your Workplace 2018 conference.

Career Month is an international celebration of careers!

Each November, Canadians and Americans, celebrate the importance of accessing meaningful work and all those who help in connecting people with preferred futures.  We speak to 2 Canada career month organizers, Ali Breen and Judy McKinnon to tell us more about, in the second half of today’s show.

But first, Career Buzz goes to Houston Texas for the National Career Development Association conference. NCDA provides professional development, publications, and advocacy to practitioners and educators who – in turn -  inspire and empower individuals to achieve their career and life goals. Today we speak to 2 presenters from the conference bringing you insights into career development.

Dirk Matthews is a Career Development Leader and Educator at Columbia College Chicago. His work helps students find and build thriving careers in the arts and media fields. Dirk’s work is influenced by experience as a counselor, a filmmaker, photographer, and a faculty member. At Houston NCDA, he presented on Integrating Technology into the Career Development Process.

Dr. Susan Barclay is a licensed professional counselor, with a specialization in career counseling and enjoys collaborating with individuals in learning how to live an authentic life. She serves on multiple editorial boards for professionals journals, and her research interests include life transitions, career counseling and interventions, identity development, and counseling related to existential concerns.

Judith McKinnon has been a counsellor with the Career Education team for over fifteen years. During this time she has had the privilege of working with thousands of students in the process of making important career and educational transitions in their lives. Judith uses a strengths approach to counselling combined with solution-focussed goal setting strategies. She believes in developing the “leader within”, and uses self- awareness and career testing to find the best fit for educational programs and for providing ongoing career and student development strategies.

Millennials Career Coach Ali Breen, believes that your career can and should be a reflection of who you are and how you want to be in the world. She uses story-based, narrative coaching to help people get clear about what they want and how & when they can actually get it. As a past corporate recruiter and bilingual career practitioner in non-profit employment centres, Ali has experience from both sides of the Career Management table. With 9+ years in the career development and human resources fields, Ali is certified as a Holistic Narrative Career Professional. She offers a refreshing break and realistic divergence from the cookie-cutter career advice and tools that are often outdated.

This week on Career Buzz, Mark goes to Houston Texas for the National Career Development Association conference. 

He first sits down with Pam Fillmon, who has a hunger for the stories of people. Pam brings insight into the complexity of change and the struggle of fitting passions and skills together. As principal of Fillmon and Associates, Pam offers people development programs that equip organizations, education, and military clients with best practices, tools, and training.

Collaborating with Pam is Hyung Joon Yoon. He’s Assistant Professor of Education, in Workforce Education and Development at the Pennsylvania State University. Hyung is also on the Board of NCDA. 

Mark sits down with Pam and Hyung to discuss their presentation on Impact of a Corporate Career Development Program, that they gave at NCDA2019. 

Later in the show, Mark gets a chance to connect with Tim Clark.  Tim Clark’s personal business model approach evolved over 30 years doing 40 jobs, from washing dishes and tending bar to starting and running a professional services venture — and later selling it in a multimillion-dollar transaction. Tim conceived the Business Model You methodology while pursuing doctoral studies at Stanford, and cocreating the book Business Model Generation, by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur. 

And bonus!

Mark gets a chance to speak with Angela Chisholm.  Do you want to know what’s it like to have a pendulum career that swings between freewheeling and finance?

Angela Chisholm spent over 10 years leading adventure travel with Freewheeling Adventures then with Walking Adventures. She swung in business admin and finance and is now Operations Manager at Copernicus Studios. 

Copernicus Studios in Halifax is an entertainment content development and production company based.

How can we reduce bias in recruiting and improve hiring?

Knockri is an AI video soft-skill assessment tool, that helps reduce unconscious bias. It shortlists the best fit job candidates to interview. Mark Franklin talks to Rija Choudhry, HR & marketing strategist at Knockri about how her company merges video intelligence, machine learning and science, to quantify soft skills, and conduct early candidate assessment.

Also, learn from Danielle Smith‘s whirlwind career spanning tech-startups, public service, nonprofit, and higher education. (Interview at 26:19) Danielle Smith’s wheelhouse combines external relations, marketing, business development, and operations