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Browse resources and articles with leading experts and Western Alumni’s career coach to level up your professional development.

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Natalie Diezyn
Career Resources

Micro-Mentorship with Natalie Diezyn

Natalie shares her journey from startup founder to working with major studios like Disney and Warner Brothers. She discusses storytelling, networking, and building a career in Canada’s thriving entertainment industry.

  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Professional
Micro Mentorship With Casey Koch
Career Resources

Micro Mentorship with Casey Koch

Learn practical tips including the importance of presenting solutions, building your network, seeking mentors, and staying proactive in new roles.

  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Professional
Micro Mentorship With Marcus Crossdale
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Micro Mentorship with Marcus Crossdale

Western alum and Vice President at benefitsConnect Inc., Marcus Crossdale, shares candid advice on navigating the transition from university to professional life.

  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Professional
Inclusion Is A Verb From Intention To Impact by Ana Boller
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Inclusion is a Verb: From Intention to Impact

Explores the small yet powerful behaviours that help create trust, belonging and respect in teams, classrooms and communities to move inclusion into a consistent, lived experience.

  • Personal Interest
  • Professional
Career Resources

Using AI in Your Career Plan

Learn how AI can help you in the job search and recruitment process with specific tools and approaches.

  • Job Searching and Resumes
  • Professional
Career Resources

Breaking Through the Mid-Career Stall

Learn how to gain greater recognition at work using simple communication techniques that can help position you for key projects and promotions.

  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Personal Interest
  • Professional
Videos

Speak Kindly, You’re Listening

Develop strategies to tame your inner critic to transform it into a constructive force that nurtures your growth.

  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Personal Interest
  • Professional
Videos

Industry Insights: Sport

Connect with fellow alumni and friends from the professional sports industry who reveal their career stories, insider knowledge on what it takes to be successful in the sports industry and explore the varied paths that lead to success.

  • Professional
Career Resources

Networking for Career Acceleration

Access professional development tools designed to help you accelerate your career.

  • Networking
  • Professional
Career Resources

Accessing the Hidden Job Market

Gain key strategies for building your professional network to help access the hidden job market.

  • Job Searching and Resumes
  • Networking
  • Professional
Career Resources

Create an Effective Personal Brand from Scratch

Learn how to build an effective brand with dynamic photography, strong positioning, and visual components like logos, typography and colour systems.

  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Networking
  • Personal Interest
  • Professional
Career Resources

The Job Closer

Solve the toughest challenges in your job search with a proven approach.

  • Job Searching and Resumes
  • Professional
Videos

Industry Insights: Sustainability

Western and the Ivey Business School present an insightful conversation to help new to mid-career alumni understand what it takes to be successful in the sustainability industry.

  • Professional
Videos

Industry Insights: Technology

Western and the Ivey Business School present an insightful conversation to help new to mid-career alumni understand what it takes to be successful in the technology industry.

  • Professional
Career Resources

2-Hour Job Search

Land your first interview with a research-backed framework.

  • Job Searching and Resumes
  • Professional
Career Resources

Choose Possibility: Take Risks and Thrive (Even When You Fail)

Hear a fresh, new perspective on decision-making and risk-taking for anyone afraid of making the wrong career choices.

  • Personal Interest
  • Professional
Career Resources

Entrepreneurship + Innovation

Learn from an exceptional group of purple and proud entrepreneurs and innovators as they speak about their personal journies, approaches to creativity, experiences founding companies and scaling them.

  • Professional
Career Resources

Dynamic LinkedIn Profiles

Master LinkedIn to highlight your unique brand and attract the right opportunities.

  • Professional