by Mississauga Board of Trade | Aug 18, 2015 | Advantage Mississauga, Networking, Uncategorized
By Rosa Lokaisingh How many of you can clearly identify the difference networking has made to your professional life or business growth? It’s time to evaluate how spending time networking has added to your business development or your net worth. WHY do you network?...
by Mississauga Board of Trade | Jul 22, 2015 | Advantage Mississauga, Business Learning, Hiring, Uncategorized, Youth
By Rosa Lokaisingh Few students have it – the 9 essential skills that an employer expects to find when hiring a graduate student. Those who took on leadership roles in their academic institutions, like President or Director of the Student Association, or Councils, or...
by Mississauga Board of Trade | Jun 15, 2015 | Advantage Mississauga, Communication, Uncategorized
By Rosa Lokaisingh In communication, we are taught great writing and speaking skills, for example, how to present ourselves when networking or presenting in front of a group, how to write articles or deliver an elevator pitch, and how to answer interview questions,...
by Mississauga Board of Trade | May 21, 2015 | Advantage Mississauga, Hiring, Innovation, Research, Training and development, Uncategorized, Youth
By Rosa Lokaisingh So we have jobs without people and people without jobs. We have a relatively high national unemployment rate — particularly among youth — that persists as employers complain they just can’t find the labour they need. But what is...
by Mississauga Board of Trade | Apr 21, 2015 | Advantage Mississauga, Youth
By Rosa Lokaisingh This question is an ongoing discussion for parents, students, academia and business today? Academia says their role is to provide students with an academic education that allows them a range of vocational choices in their related field of study,...
by Mississauga Board of Trade | Mar 18, 2015 | Advantage Mississauga, Innovation
By Rosa Lokaisingh “You don’t have to be creative to be a brilliant innovator! Listening carefully is the soul of innovation and the reason I take some pride in not being creative. I’m good at listening to customers, empathizing with their problems and...
