Nowadays, nailing an interview is no easy feat, regardless of the job or internship applied for and the required level of experience. After perfecting your resume and receiving that first call, your typical plan of attack will likely include researching the company, rehearsing answers to the most common interview questions, choosing a professional outfit and…
Most of us live a fairly mundane, uneventful life, don’t we? Sure, we might occasionally push the boat out and throw a wild party or travel somewhere exciting, but we don’t expect weird things to ever happen to us. It’s true that you probably won’t ever suffer anything drastically weird in your lifetime. Still, some…
There was this fight over money between us. It wasn’t an overt fight—we weren’t screamers and we didn’t like to argue—but it was there, permeating the room all the time like a poisonous gas, sightless and scentless but lethal just the same. It infected everything. It was a silent-treatment standoff of a fight over who…
Katie Walker is a 29-year-old Cleveland, Ohio native. She is an up and coming playwright, and she teaches English at a business school. We met up for coffee on one of the last warm, autumn Ohio afternoons. Katie’s recently published play entitled Ohio is for Zombies is available on Amazon in print, or as a…
Whether it’s volumizing, moisturizing, curl-enhancing, or straightening, we women (and men) buy shampoos and conditioners that we hope will fit our needs. We go to the grocery store or hair salon and look for the magic words that will make our hair do exactly what we want, without any fuss or muss, so that we…
There is an inherent paradox in the nature of vocational education and its impact on employ-ability both here in Canada and around the world. This situation finds its representation in the fact that employers require high standards of formal education on the thousands of prospective employees, and yet the same companies spend thousands of dollars…
