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About Alan Kearns
Jobtrekker.ca job expert Alan Kearns is nationally known as Canada's Career Coach. He's the founder of CareerJoy (CareerJoy.com), and is recognized as one of Canada's foremost expert on all things related to careers. Alan has more than 17 years experience coaching people through successful career changes. He was voted one of Canada's Top 40 entrepreneurs under the age of 40, speaks regularly on CBC radio, as well as Chapters. He has been featured in Venture, CP24, The National Post and The Globe and Mail and is also the career expert for WorkCabin.ca, Workopolis.com and CharityVillage.com
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Rise above clutter - How to market you
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Most likely you woke up to this, you have been surrounded by this all day long, and you went to bed with this in your head. What is "this"? Advertisements. According to David Shenk from his book, Data Smog, we see over 600 ads per day. The average employer feels this way as well, overwhelmed with noise and choices. How do you stand out from all of this noise? This week's podcast <http://www.careerjoy.com/blog/podcast/terry-oreilly-from-the-cbc-on-how-you-can-stand-out-in-a-noisy-world >, is with Terry O’Reilly host of CBC's Age of Persuasion, award winning ad man, and author of The Age of Persuasion - How Marketing Ate Our Culture. <http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Age-Persuasion-How-Marketing-Ate-Terry-Oreilly/9780307397324-item.html > Terry shared on our webinar  <http://www.careerjoy.com/news-and-events/events > how an individual can use successful ad principles to get noticed, advance themselves, and ultimately get hired by employers in a very noisy world.
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Confidence 101: How to get your groove back
Monday, 13 September 2010

How would you rate your current level of confidence? Do you feel confident about your job search? How does one build up confidence when struggling? This week's podcast is with Tim Pychyl Ph.D author of The Procrastinators Digest and Professor of Psychology at Carleton University. He shares some very practical advice and strategies on how to help manage your sense of well being in a more effective way.


Wikipedia describes confidence as “a state of being certain either that a hypothesis or prediction is correct or that a chosen course of action is the best or most effective.”

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