(NC)—According to Desjardins Financial Security’s last retirement survey, 17 per cent of self-employed Canadians are carrying debt loads of $50,000 and up. While this is substantially lower than the 83 per cent of respondents who self-identified as either employees or business owners carrying the same amount of debt, it’s still a concern because the self-employed [...]

(NC)—According to Industry Canada, there are one million small businesses across Canada that make up about a quarter of the country’s total GDP. And among those numbers are small business owners who operate out of their homes. It’s hard not to envy this independent lot, who are their own bosses meeting their own deadlines all [...]

(ARA) – You may have spent hours making sure you are using just the right action verbs in your resume, and crafted the perfect cover letter to catch the attention of your future employer, but if you haven’t spent the time to clean up what’s on your Facebook page, all that work could be for [...]

(ARA) – For college graduates entering the design fields, in particular aspiring interactive media and Web designers, a job search that ends well starts with socializing. Communicating and networking – in person, not just social networking online – is an important way for students to start building a foundation for their careers. Also crucial are [...]

(ARA) – When 60-plus-hour weeks, expensive professional suits and excessive stress become too much, many high-powered professionals trade in their high-paying careers for a more fulfilling life. Called “downshifting,” the move allows former CEOs and company presidents to find more balance between work and life. The phenomenon of downshifting is due in part to generational [...]

(ARA) – Students graduating from college this year should expect better job opportunities and salaries than graduates from recent history, but that doesn’t mean new graduates will have an easy time finding employment. Competition will still be fierce with hundreds of applications submitted for jobs in many industries, both from new graduates and former graduates [...]

(ARA) – In the last two decades, more and more business schools have started to offer a dual Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree, in which a student can pair a traditional Master of Business Administration degree with another post-graduate (master’s or doctoral) degree. Pursuing two degrees at once may mean more time, money and [...]

(ARA) – Based on what you see on TV, you might assume you’d only need legal help if you experienced some dramatic and life-altering event. But the truth is most people will have a legal need at some point in their lives – usually under fairly common circumstances. In fact, many legal needs don’t involve [...]

(ARA) – Every year, we tackle spring cleaning at home. Why not do the same at work? Most of us grapple with overflowing email inboxes, PC desktops stuffed with random files and servers brimming with old data. Digital clutter can be particularly challenging in small and midsize businesses because people are often juggling different roles. [...]

(ARA) – Long gone are the days when ordering business cards or banners for trade shows required multiple visits to a print shop, followed by a lengthy wait to get the job done. Digital printing technology has dramatically improved the process, and that’s great news for small business owners who need quality print products to [...]