Category: Careers

Women sitting together for a job interview.

It is never too early to start planning your career journey and a great way to do this is through an internship. Internships are a great way to build your […]

UA recruiters talk to a student at a Build a Dream career discovery expo in Ontario.

A shifting and expanding job market means that it is more difficult to navigate today than it was a decade ago. Students in high school need to start thinking about […]

Young woman in a labl coat and safety glasses standing in front of a work bench.

Are you thinking about an internship? We’ve got internship advice for women in Canada who are looking for that ideal placement to network and build skills. What is an internship? […]

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Regardless of where you are in your career path, there are different ways to build skills and grow as a professional. These include career-related workshops, professional development courses, job fairs, […]

A OYAP teacher hands a student a pamphlet at a Build A Dreamcareer discovery expo in Kitchener, Ontario.

When high school students ask, “What career is right for me?” the answer is often, “Follow your passion!”. So what if you haven’t discovered what that is yet? How do […]

Jennifer Sadai

Jenn Sadai is a Purchaser with nearly twenty years of buying experience. Jenn is currently responsible for the sourcing and inventory management of plumbing, paper, and office supplies at WFS […]

Pipes

“There wasn’t really a market for it but then, I became a teacher anyway.” Jenan Abderrahman is a Telemetry Engineer in Electrical, Controls and Energy Systems at Enbridge. Jenan joined […]

University of Ottawa Electrical Engineer Zoya Abou-Jaish

Zoya Abou-Jaish is an Electrical Engineering student at the University of Ottawa. As a 4th-year student, Zoya had to choose one of the program’s five technical specializations: communications, systems, electronics, […]

Hydro lines in the sky.

Jessica Van Rooyen was laid off from a job that she had hoped to retire from and realized that her lack of transferrable skills made her vulnerable. She noticed that […]

Stocks

What made Tahira enter finance? How did she get from New York to Toronto? What advice does she have for young women? Listen to Episode #015 of Perfectly Unfiltered for career advice […]

Rick Thurston of WFS Ltd with his exhibitor booth at Build a Dream Windsor.

“I continue to be positive about what the future looks like if we have the right conversations in the right way,” says WFS Ltd‘s General Manager, Rick Thurston. When you […]

Q&A with Maddy Level 2 Welding Apprentice, Maddy Paulson was recently apart of our #DreamBig Career Discovery Expo with Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board and Peterborough, Victoria, Northumberland and […]