When it’s too cold for green grass, barbecues, and beaches, it's time to once again embrace goose-down parkas, snow blowers and shovels, it’s time to embrace. School’s back this fall. You’ve narrowed your focus to preparing for a position that combines creative thinking with problem-solving and allows you to apply what you’ve learned. While knowing what you want provides direction and purpose, before your next semester begins, it may be time to take advantage of the weather and see what experiences the season has to offer.
According to Stephanie Chandra’s article there are at least 50 Ways for College Students to Maximize Summer Break. Here’s our 10 favourites:
Once you’re part of the workforce, you’ll have to earn the trust of your direct report and colleagues. Your team will expect you to contribute to discussions, help solve problems, and take on extra work when needed. Once you start working, you won’t have the same flexibility to gain knowledge. Why not have these experiences now? You can learn about your community or what life is like in another part of the world. Spending time with friends and family or even alone can help you see things from different perspectives. The more enriching experiences you gain now, the greater the knowledge you can draw from to generate solutions. Julius Caesar sums up the actual value of experience by saying, “Experience is the teacher of all things.”
Picture this: It's early November, leaves crunch under your feet as you walk up the front steps to the annual CMA Award Show & Gala at the Westin Harbour Castle in downtown Toronto. When you look around, it's clear that everyone, like you, is dressed to impress. There are over 860 people here tonight, including Canadian marketers, advertisers, sponsors, and CMA staff.
The NXT Voice is your one-stop shop for tips, tricks and inside information about all things marketing, where Chartered Marketers share what they've learned with you. Today's topic is 'Generative AI for Marketers' featuring Hussein Moussa, CM, Marketing Manager of Cosmaroma Inc.
For me, marketing is first and foremost the business of people. It's about uncovering human truths, the needs people express, and the ones they don't. When people give you their trust, sharing their hopes or fears, our job as marketers is to listen and give something meaningful back. - Arielle Uwonkunda, Marketing Manager at Molson Coors