Career Conversations – Details, episodes & analysis

On the show's 4th anniversary, we leap a couple of time zones and visit Connie Corse from the Nova Scotia Career Development Association!

3:00 - All about Connie

12:11 - What is the NSCDA?

20:00 - Nova Scotia's job market & demographics

28:00 - How does NSCDA serve it's members

38:40 - What can other associations learn from NSCDA?

46:14 - Visiting Nova Scotia

48:10 - Impossible Trivia

50:20 - How to learn more & connect

For more information about NSCDA, visit: https://nscda.ca/

To contact Connie Corse: CCorse@NSCDA.ca

For more information about MACD, visit: macd-mb.org

Coming out of hibernation, it's time for the MACD Career Conversation's podcast! In this month's episode, we welcome back Lisa Taylor to discuss the "Hidden Sector, Hidden Talent: Mapping Canada's Career Development Sector" report.

1:06 - Introducing Lisa

2:15 - Report's origins & goal

10:00 - What is the big tent?

22:40 - Report findings & surprises

28:18 - Getting data from provinces

34:27 - Manitoba findings & provincial funding

45:08 - More information on the report

46:50 - Impossible trivia

Visit here to find the report and the executive summary!

For more information about Lisa, check out Episode 29 of the Career Conversations podcast.

For more information about MACD, visit our website

Happy New Year to everyone! On this month's episode of the Career Conversations podcast, we have a roundtable on Bad Career Advice - What is traditional career advice that we need to stop giving? A big thank you to my guests Emily Worthen, Candy Ho and Caryn Birch for the conversation!

3:06 - Emily's Answer

8:45 - Candy's Answer

17:33 - Caryn's Answer

26:00 - David's Answer

For more information on MACD, please visit https://www.macd-mb.org/

On this month’s episode of the MACD Career Conversations podcast, we’re talking about Career Terminology! Guests Kate Yee, Sareena Hopkins and Matt Purdey discuss the many variations of job titles and soft skills names in our profession, and what needs to change (if anything!).
00:00 - Job Title Discussion 21:45 - Soft Skills Discussion

For more information about MACD, please visit https://www.macd-mb.org/

Leaving the province once again this month to chat with Lisa Taylor of the Challenge Factory!

For more information on the Challenge Factory and the great work that Lisa and her team are doing, visit: ⁠https://challengefactory.ca/⁠

For more information about MACD, please visit: macd-mb.org

For Career & Workforce Development Month's episode, we received 35 minutes of clips. Instead of getting all of it into the episode, here are all the clips in full! Thank you to everyone who provided a clip:

Brian Yasui

Caryn Birch

Betty Punkert

Keith Robinson

Kristina Lonstrup

Zach Allard

Lisa Elmhurst

Spencer Yasui

Emily Gerbrandt

Enjoy!

We're back from our summer break and gearing up for November! Career & Workforce Development Month is coming up, and this episode welcomes back Ahniko Handford and Deanna England to highlight what MACD will be doing to celebrate.

For this episode, we also asked a variety of guests to describe what career development means to them, so thank you to all of those who donated a clip (in no particular order):

Brian Yasui, Caryn Birch, Betty Punkert, Keith Robinson, Kristina Lonstrup, Zach Allard, Lisa Elmhurst, Spencer Yasui, Emily Gerbrandt

Be sure to visit https://www.macd-mb.org/ for more info on Career & Workforce Development Month and more!

For this month's episode of the MACD Career Conversations podcast, we talk to current MACD Chair Kate Yee!

0:00 - 28:37 - All about Kate

29:00 - Similarties and differences between students

30:30 - Advice for students in career planning

34:28 - What are students today missing?

40:07 - Kate's role as chair of MACD

For more information about MACD, please visit: http://www.macd-mb.org. Stayed tuned for more updates on the upcoming Let's Get To Work Conference, November Career Month, Professional Development, and more.

Note - The show will be pausing for the summer, have a great July & August and see you in the Fall!

On this month's episode of the MACD Career Conversations podcast, we welcome in Rhonda Taylor from Career Trek!

1:30 - All about Rhonda

16:30 - Starting at Career Trek

20:40 - What is Career Trek?

27:05 - Strategies & philosophies to help clientele at Career Trek

34:05 - How to get involved in Career Trek

38:10 - What's next for Career Trek?

40:34 - Impossible Trivia Question

42:15 - How to contact Rhonda and Career Trek

For more information about Career Trek, please visit: http://www.careertrek.ca

For more information about MACD, please visit: http://www.macd-mb.org

Career Conversations comes back to Winnipeg and welcomes in Anna Gordon from Strut4Success!

0:00 - All About Anna

12:10 - Advice on starting your own business

14:38 - Teaching others networking & branding

21:16 - Physical movement & wellness

25:21 - Creative strategies for engaging clients

33:50 - How should career ideally be taught?

40:05 - How to contact Anna

40:45 - Impossible Trivia

To know more information about Anna, please visit: https://strut4success.com/

For more information about MACD, please visit: http://www.macd-mb.org